Why anybody would willingly put money into any of the UAE is beyond me,just stepping off the plane puts your liberty in jeopardy.
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British woman faces Dubai jail over Facebook 'horse' insult
I understand your point, and it's certainly a very authoritarian regime there. But then there are similarly outrageous things happening all over the globe. To boycott all such places would close half the world off to me, and I want to see as much of the world as possible in my short life.
I regard the world as a place to be explored in whatever time I have on the planet. I can't legislate for the nature of regimes and laws and attitudes in different parts of the world; I can't afford to wait a lifetime in the hope that things might change in various places, to be more in line with my views. I have to hold my nose, grit my teeth and visit such places in spite of whatever is disreputable about them.
I find it's important to separate the world itself, this planet we have been given, the very land and the spaces themselves, from the nasties that temporarily hold sway in various parts of it.
EDIT: just to add, that wherever you find extreme and authoritarian governments, the people who have to live there all the time, the ordinary citizens, are usually those who suffer most under the regimes. The ordinary people of the world are my brothers and sisters in humanity, and I'm not going to let any c*nts in charge stop me from meeting them and forming friendships and spending time with them.
And now back to favourite suitcases, and stuff