Comments on: Dubai: Intrigue and Injustice http://www.tadamon.ca/post/1576 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:30:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dubai Resident http://www.tadamon.ca/post/1576/comment-page-1#comment-102976 Dubai Resident Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:56:02 +0000 http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1576#comment-102976 http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=781 As a UAE national with PhD in law I have to admit that Sheikh Mohamed has failed to put in place a transparent judiciary and has concentrated more on self PR by anouncing unrealistic projects and reading clever lines which secures his own ego problem. His family members treat the society like animals… they steal from foreign businessmen, threaten them, and some times using the famous state security even arrests them to reach their commercial goals. it s sad that sheikh mohammed’ s brother in law sheikh hasher maktoum has stolen a multi billin dollar bussiness from a foreign investor just because he is related to sheikh mohammed. We have no human rights here, the judiciary is as corrupt as real estate, finance, immigration…. dubai is crashing http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=781

As a UAE national with PhD in law I have to admit that Sheikh Mohamed has failed to put in place a transparent judiciary and has concentrated more on self PR by anouncing unrealistic projects and reading clever lines which secures his own ego problem. His family members treat the society like animals… they steal from foreign businessmen, threaten them, and some times using the famous state security even arrests them to reach their commercial goals.
it s sad that sheikh mohammed’ s brother in law sheikh hasher maktoum has stolen a multi billin dollar bussiness from a foreign investor just because he is related to sheikh mohammed. We have no human rights here, the judiciary is as corrupt as real estate, finance, immigration…. dubai is crashing

]]> By: Dubai Resident http://www.tadamon.ca/post/1576/comment-page-1#comment-102626 Dubai Resident Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:07:38 +0000 http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1576#comment-102626 How about the state security department in dubai police that is arrsting foreign investors just to empty their pockets and then deports them? Dubai is a big fat lie, there are no righs for anyone here. Dubai sheikh mohammed loves it when they lie to him about how great he is... in reality his entire family is robbing everyone. You will see within a decade there will be no sheikhs here How about the state security department in dubai police that is arrsting foreign investors just to empty their pockets and then deports them? Dubai is a big fat lie, there are no righs for anyone here. Dubai sheikh mohammed loves it when they lie to him about how great he is… in reality his entire family is robbing everyone. You will see within a decade there will be no sheikhs here

]]> By: Mel http://www.tadamon.ca/post/1576/comment-page-1#comment-102482 Mel Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:58:29 +0000 http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1576#comment-102482 I've lived in Dubai for 15 years and can testify to the things that Davies writes about. Dubai is a place that thrives on racism, sexism, and classicism. Far from keeping such things in check, Dubai happily tolerates them as signs of 'progress.' It is a soulless and artificial society that is devoid of any history or culture. Like the specter of Jacob Marley, let Dubai show the west the horrors of unfettered capitalism should they continue on the path. I’ve lived in Dubai for 15 years and can testify to the things that Davies writes about. Dubai is a place that thrives on racism, sexism, and classicism. Far from keeping such things in check, Dubai happily tolerates them as signs of ‘progress.’ It is a soulless and artificial society that is devoid of any history or culture. Like the specter of Jacob Marley, let Dubai show the west the horrors of unfettered capitalism should they continue on the path.

]]> By: catherine http://www.tadamon.ca/post/1576/comment-page-1#comment-81740 catherine Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:12:25 +0000 http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1576#comment-81740 Thanks to the two of you for laying this out. I've been reading about this "miracle," and in an unbelievable twist, have read some comments that use this as an antidote to Muslim-bashing, i.e., "See, the Arabs CAN create and build." In other words, the "Arabs" can be as successful at capitalism as the west." Which has to be described in a word other than irony, some geometric form of irony. Good god! There's something similar going on in China, I read recently. Not so much the tall buildings and resorts, but economic enclaves, where people both live and work (mainly electronics, I think, but perhaps other forms of consumer goods), but where there are two kinds of incomes - the big bucks and the little bucks. Mr. Davis, thanks for your work. In particular, "Late Victorian Holocausts" so educated and affected me that I really couldn't stand to read it all at one time. I can't imagine what it must have been like for you to research it. Thanks to the two of you for laying this out. I’ve been reading about this “miracle,” and in an unbelievable twist, have read some comments that use this as an antidote to Muslim-bashing, i.e., “See, the Arabs CAN create and build.” In other words, the “Arabs” can be as successful at capitalism as the west.” Which has to be described in a word other than irony, some geometric form of irony. Good god!

There’s something similar going on in China, I read recently. Not so much the tall buildings and resorts, but economic enclaves, where people both live and work (mainly electronics, I think, but perhaps other forms of consumer goods), but where there are two kinds of incomes – the big bucks and the little bucks.

Mr. Davis, thanks for your work. In particular, “Late Victorian Holocausts” so educated and affected me that I really couldn’t stand to read it all at one time. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for you to research it.

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