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Dubai
Total, epic failure.
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How did they get into this mess? Don't they have billions in oil revenue?
Maybe they should have rethought the whole "lets build some islands" thing... |
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Somebody mind what's going on?
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Dubai, the "desert paradise:"
![]() ![]() ![]() The Dubai Government or city or whatever they have going on over there has managed to sink into a 60-billion dollar debt (thanks global economy!), and they cannot pay creditors until May of 2010 at the earliest. Their primary sources of revenue are oil and tourism, I assume the city is fucked. Talk about poor money management. Not to mention tourism as a primary source of revenue? You can't even wear a bikini to the beach in Dubai, you'll get your appendages chopped off by pissed off Muslims. The city is a joke. It was built by slave labor. It is a financial nightmare. The government/area doesn't make money. It's going to be a ghost town in 100 years. Even construction on the Burj Dubai has been stunted due to the financial meltdown. |
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I'm sure it is much more complicated and in-depth than that, but the bottom line is Dubai would be better nicknamed the "desert mirage" instead of the "desert paradise." |
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Must have been nice while it lasted.
I'm not sure on the details and who is giving money to whom, but from NPR I've heard some snippets that the Dubai government is going to bail out the banks, which has supposedly brought their economy back just slightly from the brink of collapse. |
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The solution is simple! Legalize drinking, smoking, sexing, and gambling!
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But in case you aren't, a nation shouldn't have a religion. |
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Islam (at least fundamental Islam) does not follow these ideals. Church and state are intertwined. This is why we see Islamic/Muslim special interest occasionally pushing to be held to Islamic law and not secular law in Western nations. Asking muslims to remove religion from governance is like asking them to stop being muslim. |
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Just a side note, here are some really neat pictures of Burj Dubai currently, and the construction surrounding it. http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...06899&page=403 |
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And Genocides shouldn't take place - but the world still turns. Strangler pretty much nailed exactly what I was getting at. |
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Also, Mr. Christ preached about a lot of things - love, tolerance, etc. I don't think that makes those ideas Christian. Not to mention the world saw many incarnations of Christian rule: the Holy Roman Empire, the Catholic Church, kings ruling by divine right. The separation of church and state hasn't come about due to religion, it's come about due to the evolution of ideas of philosophers and politicians, some of which happen to have been religious. I'm not arguing that separation of church and state isn't against the Islamic religion, but rather the world shouldn't, and doesn't, care. I find it hard to believe that 100% of the people that live there are Islamic, and therefore those people -should- be spoken for. This isn't a matter of what your religion approves or disapproves of, it's a matter of human rights. I think that history has proven that separation of church and state is the right thing to have, despite what a religious doctrine may say, just like history has proven that tyranny and communism are not efficient methods to run a government (but that doesn't stop people from trying, does it?). I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on foreign government, but there are nations out there where the majority of the population is Islamic, but they are still secular - Turkey and Azerbaijan are a couple. |
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