Why We Really Shouldn’t Do Business with the UAE
Posted By Ardellis on February 24, 2006
I don’t know enough about how a major port is run to be able to speak to the security concerns that people are voicing over the Dubai World Ports bruhaha, but I do have objections to giving major contracts in the US to companies owned by foreign governments that have the kind of human rights profile that the United Arab Emirates has. Look over Amnesty International’s recent documents on the UAE and tell me you like what you see. Tell me you think we ought to do business with governments that refuse to crack down on human trafficking in their own countries — especially trafficking in children. And how about the way they treat gay people? And of course, adultery is still punishable by stoning, and premarital sex by flogging, under Sharia law.
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