The UAE like all similar despotic supposedly Islamic states is a total Hypocracy. There is
so much Vice there it is hard to walk 10 feet in a Hotel without encountering a Prostitute and there was one Establishment there called the Garage (Gone now) that was so blatant with it they used to sell T-Shirts emblazoned "I have been serviced at the Garage" !!
I lioved in duabi a long time and the bars and Nightclubs were packed with very drunk people who paid a high price for Alchohol. Eevry so often some over zealous cop would arrest someone and the Government make a gesture to thye Islamists then back to Business as Usual. As is the same the World over, soomeone is making a great deal of money
Next we will see "Licenses" at very high costs in "Tourist Hotels" in Turkey, then "licenses" to buy Alchohol (expensive of course)!
Problem is we only see a small part of Turkey, the vast Hinterland is rural and we would consider backward, the people are poor and wherever you find poverty you find slavish adhesion to religion, the people have little else. They dont care about the Tourist trade, does nothing for them!
Well, if we are going to see this wedge broaden it will be back to Greece for me and I suspect many, certainly I no longer consider buying property in Turkey, it is simply not stable under the Islamists.
Poor Mustafa Kemal must be spinning in his grave to see what they are doing to his wonderful Secular state!
All this is of course just my opinion
Meldrew
