Dubai

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Professor S

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...

Dubai actually has very little oil, if I recall correctly, which is why they went the tourist route. The other emirates of the United Arab Emirates derive their wealth from oil, and I believe they are going to back Dubai's debt.

[KillerGremlin]

The solution is simple! Legalize drinking, smoking, sexing, and gambling!

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

The solution is simple! Legalize drinking, smoking, sexing, and gambling!

Asking a nation to give up it's religious beliefs for debt is asinine.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Asking a nation to give up it's religious beliefs for debt is asinine.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not.

But in case you aren't, a nation shouldn't have a religion.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

But in case you aren't, a nation shouldn't have a religion.

Keep in mind separation of church and state is a uniquely Christian ideal that spread. According to most histories, Jesus was one of the first religious figures ever to say the religion was beyond politics.

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.