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Originally Posted by RummyBoy
The Irony is that Dubai has probably less muslims than New York or London.
The bars/clubs down by the Marina are jam packed full of Russian hookers that GRAB you by the testicles - under sharia law, they would be a pile of ashes. Even at Address Bar or Atmosphere in Burj Khalifa....  |
Not really unreasonable in an Emirate that is less populace than the entire city of Edinburgh and by less, I mean less than half!
Then factor in the Dubai governments stance of tolerance of other religions (unlike Saudi Arabia) and also the fact that they have a vast expatriate workforce where circa 85% of said workforce is Asian and things start to make more sense with regards to the disparity of Muslim to other religion ratio.
All indigenous Emirati's however are Muslim or at least they are born Muslim under the law. I've heard stories of a few of them converting to Christianity but almost all of this is very underground.
I'm unsure of the other Emirates but Dubai in particular does not operate under strict Sharia/Islamic law. Their jurisprudence is a mix of Islamic law and civil law with legal codes they have adopted from the West.