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Regardless of the UAE being under Sharia Law, the father could have been arrested because he was interfering with letting the lifeguards doing their duty, which means they wouldn't care if he was a Muslim or not. The father is described as an ex-pat, which means he is working there and is not a tourist.
The article does not say anyting about "ex-pat" or "working there" or "not a tourist". It only describes "an Asian man" and his family. I checked all the way back to the original, which is nineteen years old. You should read your own links.
The point of the UAE being under Islamic law has nothing to do with "caring whether he's a Muslim" or not. It has nothing to do with the man at all. The point was Roudy came in here trying to establish Islam as a causation of HBV. Therefore, if it is what he says it is, an Islamic law government would have no problem with what the man did. After all it would be "Islamic" in his perverse fantasy.
But it isn't. These are ancient cultural -- not religious, cultural -- social structure practices that predate Islam and the rest of the modern monotheistic religions by thousands of years. They have nothing to do with religion. That's why I challenged him to explain the contradiction. He can't do it. He runs away because he's too obtuse to admit he was wrong.
Have you ever thought, Pogo, that there are other articles besides this one which described the man as an ex-pat. Don't you think that ex-pats working there take their families on picnics like this one did? There was an incident just the other week on the boardwalk at Venice Beach. There was a lifeguard on a tower on the boardwalk who told three people to stop smoking. They started up with the lifeguard and were arrested.
I already searched those articles. Found nothing like that.
But it did occur to me that if some such actually exists, it could be linked. Funny it doesn't seem to show up.
Keep on looking. I wouldn't have called him an ex-pat if I didn't read it. Regardless, does it matter what he was -- a tourist or an ex-pat -- when he interfered with the lifeguards doing their duty.
I have no reason to "keep on looking" -- it's not my claim. When I make one -- I back it up.
No it really doesn't matter. What I attacked was Roudy's cum hoc fallacy. Where the guy's from has no bearing on that.
Pogo's lips keep moving but all I hear is blah blah blah. Meanwhile, here's some of that inconvenient truth he keeps avoiding with his diversions and blabber:
Worldwide Trends in Honor Killings
Although Sikhs and Hindus do sometimes commit such murders, honor killings, both worldwide and in the West, are mainly Muslim-on-Muslim crimes. In this study, worldwide, 91 percent of perpetrators were Muslims. In North America, most killers (84 percent) were Muslims, with only a few Sikhs and even fewer Hindus perpetrating honor killings; in Europe, Muslims comprised an even larger majority at 96 percent while Sikhs were a tiny percentage. In Muslim countries, obviously almost all the perpetrators were Muslims. With only two exceptions, the victims were all members of the same religious group as their murderers.