did you mean minority, as in ‘…if that were the minority’? because it’s not the majority, of that you can be sure. to conclude otherwise is like saying that all anti-abortionists in the u.s. bomb abortion clinics and kill doctors who perform abortions. or how about concluding that there are many timothy mcveighs in oklahoma?
you got me, I meant the minority.
and they’ve been undertaking measures to control these extremists. i don’t know what your basis is for saying that they haven’t. fortunately for me, i’ve read up, much, because i’m very interested in geopolitics and i bother to know all sides, including their vested interests.
Surely if they have, wouldn't this be public knowledge, spread across new networks or online ? If you have access to these reports and materials that say otherwise, good for you. You are very lonely in that minority.
I am interested but I will readily admit , not beyond the news, and not beyond what I can find in google or bing.
you can imagine the intelligence efforts they’ve made (in coordination with the worldwide intelligence network, including the u.s., naturally, and the Philippines, whose intelligence network is widely respected for its accuracy), and the number they’ve caught. hardly does the western press fan these into blazing reports, but these are way, way more massive than catching school bullies in the u.s.
I should hope so...and I should also hope that they are not corrupt and unreliable like the ones displayed by our countrymen in the war in Mindanao in 2000.
there won’t be hundreds of flights to and from the middle east daily with countless visitors and investors going in and out if those countries don’t give courtesies to people of different persuasions. i can honestly say without batting an eyelash that they are more courteous there (with old world charms like europeans) than how it is in our own country where we could get shouted down in our own airports.
I think there still would be, people who need money will take the risk and go. A buddy of ours went, gets paid 3 times the regular rate of commercial pilots here for thesame type of jobs. Our compatriots still would go if the jobs are there and investors will always go where the money is...and they have lots. I've been told Dubai is like the Las Vegas of the middle east and Abu Dhabi has the real money. Between those, I can only assume that there is something for those willing. Courtesy is a matter of opinion, but since I've never been there, I will trust you with that.
I only know that in my brief attempts at trying to call my husband on a trip there, the hotel phone operators at least were very rude. It doesn't represent the whole region, but it sure as hell left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
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and countries and societies have different standards of what’s offensive. so why call ‘oa’ the uae’s standard of not allowing public kissing just because it is tolerated in your own milieu?
OA is a matter of opinion, maybe the more apt term was "overboard" ? The mother herself did not see and a child could be told what story she should be telling. It would be a different story had they done a full on lip salad in public where there were other reliable witnesses , I'd say, they deserved it. Thing is, you or I will never know what type of kiss they did, or if the little girl was telling the truth. Makes me think of our judicial system, "beyond a shadow of doubt" ? In this case, because of the prevailing culture, they got what they got.
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