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The following were recent headlines of the “Courts” page of a daily newspaper in the United Arab Emirates:

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  “Man says devil made him molest girl”

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  Boys accused of raping man”

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  “Fake officer kidnapped, raped woman, court told”

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  “Army clerk forged signature of Chief of Armed Forces, court told”

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  “Student claims cousin raped her”

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  “Former footballer appeals against conviction in Dh5.5m citizenship scam”  

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  “Man threatened to drink woman’s blood, court told. She says he was trying to force his way into her apartment”

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  “Woman charged with illicit sex says partner was husband”

These are all ‘exotic’ crimes by any standard I can think of. This is what happens when there are no real politics to keep them busy, as in the UAE. The next most exciting thing apparently is violent sex and murder and robbery. Which reminds me: there is even less politics in Saudi Arabia, and I wonder what their police reports are like.

As for that army clerk who forged a general’s signature: I hope he has no access to all those fancy missiles the Abu Dhabi has been buying from around the world. The UAE is the second largest importer of weapons in the whole wide world and aims to be the first largest importer of weapons in the whole wide world. The import-deprived Iranian IRGC generals probably drool every time they read about all these advanced Western goodies landing in the warehouses of Abu Dhabi (I assume the mullahs also drool, just like all clergy including the Catholics). Now we don’t want some dipshit army clerk to start a missile war across the Gulf, do we? Only dipshit generals and potentates should be able to start a missile war.
Cheers
mhg


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