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It’s a familiar sight in party holiday resorts such as Magaluf and Ibiza. But this is one of the world’s most devoutly Muslim countries — Dubai.Here it is forbidden for women even to venture out with an sleeveless top on, as showing skin is provocative in Muslim culture. So is dancing and pop
music.To drink alcohol is one of the ultimate sins, yet Brits head to Dubai with three things in mind — to strip off and get a tan, get trashed and have sex.There are at least 100,000 Brits living here and it attracts a further three million British holidaymakers a year. It’s a volatile mix, the two polar-opposite cultures often clashing with frightening consequences.One Brit to feel the wrath of the Dubai authorities is expat Rebecca Blake.
The 29-year-old got so hammered on a ten-hour drinking binge two weeks ago that she was arrested.
She claims to have had alcohol amnesia, but a taxi driver says she was gettingmusic.To drink alcohol is one of the ultimate sins, yet Brits head to Dubai with three things in mind — to strip off and get a tan, get trashed and have sex.There are at least 100,000 Brits living here and it attracts a further three million British holidaymakers a year. It’s a volatile mix, the two polar-opposite cultures often clashing with frightening consequences.One Brit to feel the wrath of the Dubai authorities is expat Rebecca Blake.
The 29-year-old got so hammered on a ten-hour drinking binge two weeks ago that she was arrested.
naked in the back of his car with a male pal, prompting the driver to turn
them in to the cops.
The recruitment consultant was then slung in a cockroach-infested jail for
five days and sacked from her 100K-a-year job.
In Dubai most of the drinking is done at clubs and bars inside hotels. You
can’t find alcohol in shops, so hotels end up full of Westerners getting
plastered day and night.
The country has also become an international sex centre, where girls brazenly
sell themselves to Westerners in the downtown bars.
Authorities turn a blind eye and certain places have become sex supermarkets
where men can buy a girl of almost any nationality for as little as 40 a
night.
Friday is the Muslim world’s holy day, when no work is done by locals, and for
expats in Dubai it is the equivalent of Saturday.
All-day benders start at noon at any of the infamous “brunch parties” hosted
by hotels. For between 70 and 150 Brits can eat and drink as much as they
possibly can.
The most raucous party is at Yalumba restaurant at the Meridien Airport Hotel.
The Sun booked a table posing as tourists.
Within the first hour most punters are plastered. Gangs of girls totter around
on heels, dressed like it’s Ladies Day at Aintree.
One partygoer, an expat called Joe who sells swimming pools in Dubai, tells
us: “The girls are so up for it out here, it’s much easier to get laid here
than back home. I think it’s something to do with the heat.
“It’s the new Ibiza, except there are no drugs because the penalties are so
harsh.”
For one middle-aged woman it is all too much, and she slumps asleep on a chair
in the smoking area by 2pm.
Outside, the air is filled by the Imam calling his faithful to prayer on a
loudspeaker.
As the sound mingles with the staccato throb of the pumping dance music, it
is an eerie reminder for Brits that they are a long way from home.
Inside, at the prostitute-ridden York Bar, girls grab men the moment they walk
in, some even putting their hands inside their trousers.
In broken English they coo crude offers of sexual acts. Asking some their
nationalities reveals there are girls from Thailand, Ethiopia, Russia,
Belarus, Estonia and the Philippines.
Many are brought to Dubai against their will.
Just last week four people in Ras Al-Khaimah — a neighbouring emirate — were
arrested for bringing in women to work as sex slaves.
Those who are here legally must take an Aids test once a year, as do any
expats, including Brits.
One prostitute tells me: “I like English men very much, my favourite.”
She then lies: “You look like David Beckham. Shall we go to my apartment?”
Despite the drinking starting at noon it continues long into the night.
Most places are open until 3am, many of them Irish or British-themed bars.
If it wasn’t for the stifling humidity, this could be the fraught last
hours of a Saturday night session in any British high street.
So next time you hear someone complain they are offended by Muslims who come
to the UK and carry on with their own customs, remember — that’s exactly
what we do in Dubai.
THE Foreign Office warn British holidaymakers and expats that there is a
“zero-level tolerance for drugs and alcohol” in Dubai, while sex outside
marriage is illegal.
But despite that, the strictly Muslim Arab emirate has become a magnet for
Westerners hungry for all three.
Although alcohol is served in licensed hotels and clubs, it is an offence to
drink or to be under the influence of alcohol in public.
Drinking risks up to six months in jail and a fine of up to 340, while sex
outside marriage can get you up to three years.
Possession of even small amounts of drugs can lead to a minimum of four years.
People can also be arrested for kissing in public and women must dress
modestly.
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Damn The Salaries are So High in Dubai. $155,000 per year TAX Free for a Recruitment Consultant?? wow!
All Pakistani trapped in Europe on Student Visas should look for Jobs in the Middle East...guess the positive note of this article could be.
Chao
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