To Hijab or not to Hijab

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Oh there is oppression, I just meant that when it comes to that towards foreigners it's much stronger in the west.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are wahhabi so yes. In the UAE, I assure you that you can live with whoever you want. These Sharia Laws are only present to appease whatever is left of the relegated religious institution, my uncle lives with an Australian chick and he is a colonel in the interior ministry. No harm no foul, because nobody in their right mind cares who you sleep with as long as you don't rub it in everyone's faces.

It's true people have been killed for "such acts," but you say Gulf Cooperation Council. You mentioned two Wahhabi states yet fail to mention Kuwait and Oman along with the UAE. I think you'd be surprised by all three. Not to mention I've seen widespread PDA in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon (Beirut and south), and my own country. Only in Dubai of course, nowhere else.

And I doubt that many Islamic countries have reliable crime statistics - absence of reporting is hardly evidence of absence.

Everything is reported. You conveniently assume this because we camel jockeys are all the same.

Then of course the Saudis sent in troops and tanks to, erm, help the rulers in Qatar - of course that is not oppression apparently.

You mean Bahrain. I don't see how this is oppression against foreigners?