The Long Kiss Dubai
By Wyatt Earp | March 16, 2010
Can anyone give me an explanation why people would willingly travel to the Middle East? The entire prehistoric region is trapped in the 5th Century. Don’t believe me? Take this story, for example, where a British couple is facing a year in jail for kissing.
DUBAI – A British pair caught kissing in public in Dubai face up to a month in jail in the Gulf Arab emirate for indecency after an Emirati mother complained her child had seen their indiscretion.
The pair, a British man living in Dubai and a female friend, were arrested in November on accusations of kissing and touching each other intimately in public and consuming alcohol, their lawyer said. They were ordered jailed for a month.
The case is the third time in under two years in which Britons have hit the headlines by falling foul of decency laws in Dubai, a flashy Muslim emirate popular with sun-seeking Western tourists and expatriates.
Yeah, I think my conversion to Islam is on hold now. /snark
Topics: WTF? | 11 Comments »
March 16th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
If kissing, groping, and drinking is wrong-
I don’t want to be right.
March 16th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Mrs. Crankipants – Wow, that’s hot.
March 16th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Nice header by the way!
March 16th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
You can’t kiss in public but its OK to screw camels and goats? WTF?
March 16th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Mrs. Crankipants – Thanks. Once in a while I come up with something witty.
Minuteman26 – That kind of talk is fatwa-worthy.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
minuteman26 — probably because their camels and goats are so much better looking than their women!
March 16th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Is it any wonder most suicide bombers come from Muslim countries? And Dubai is one of the more moderate ones too.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:29 am
I loathe public displays of affection especially between fatties. The Dubairanians might have something there.
On the other hand, if it’s illegal, how do you prove that the crime occurred? If it’s not on video, and they’re not going to torture you until own up to playing tongue karate with your paramour, get a lawyer! That is assuming that they have the rule of law.
I guess I just answered my own question.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
John D – If our government told me I couldn’t grope a fine looking woman, I’d blow up a market, too! /snark
Crankipants – Yep. Go to the head of the Sharia Court.
March 17th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Too bad they didn’t catch Barry kissing the Mrs. prior to his election.
March 17th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
MeToo – Yeah, that would warrant a stoning.