Dubai jail sentence upheld for UK kissing couple

In a similar case, an Indian couple was sentenced to three months in jail for exchanging steamy text messages.

What??? "Steamy messages" are a crime as well? How did the athourites get a hold of them anyway?

I like the total lack of scaling as well: talk dirty - 3 months! sexual intercourse in public - 3 months!

Mind you, Dubai wants to position itself as a global business hub... I wonder how many people will want to travel there when they find out that you can get 3 months for making out. (Not that one expects a lot of making out on business trips, but still...)

One can sympathize with foreigners who break Arabic law due to their ignorance. The problem is the amount of hotels that advertise 'Romantic breaks' or Honeymoons in Dubai surely they must be guilty of entrapment too! The only way to avoid falling foul to such a diametric culture is to stay away, until they resolve the problem of such mixed messages.

Why do people go voluntarily to Shariah countries??

They have only themselves to blame for their ignorance.

The people handing down these ridiculous sentences need to be sentenced to jail themselves.

Here's an idea... well the same idea I've had before. Just get rid of religious laws like that. I can understand indecent exposure (the couple mating on the beach) but OMG kissing! OMG texting on what should be PERSONAL property! Yeesh.

If you take a chance and travel to a foreign country in a part of the world that everyone knows has very strick moral standards, then you have to play by their rules and mind your manners in public. Just save public displays of affection for the privacy of your room.

Or - if you are super rich - you can get an outrageously expensive hotel room at a very decadent high rise hotel, order up a few prostitutes and have a smashing good time! I doubt that is a crime in Dubai.

They are sick people.... Last time i went there and i was told by one religious security not to hold my wife hand in MAlls. Cheap thoughts

sorry for the couples. now people, learn the reason. know where you go and act accordingly base on the local culture and rule. me for one, i will never go vacation in any Muslim dominated country. i know i can never understand, respect or even care those culture and rule.

HonestDictator said: Here's an idea... well the same idea I've had before. Just get rid of religious laws like that. I can understand indecent exposure (the couple mating on the beach) but OMG kissing!

Well I can't understand indecent exposure and I never could. If people don't want to see they can look away. As far as I can see nearly all countries have religious laws, but some people just don't want to see their laws that way. People don't like to have their own silliness pointed out to them any more than the silly people of Dubai.

A one-month prison term for kissing in public!? Whoa! And they are not just talking about the mini-skirt police here either!! Note to self: Do not go to Dubai.

@Heylars

Indecent exposure aren't for everyone, but its not like any of these people, except the british couple on the beach, were truely doing anything seriously offensive in Dubai standards. Looking away from some folks moaning and doing the do in full public view won't stop exposure. And we especially can't say what others in a different country should be allowed to do if their laws state otherwise.

Best thing is for everyone that wants to be able to have some natural public displays of affection with their gf/bf/wife/husband should steer clear of countries with rules like the UAE.

Honest Dictator:

" Just get rid of religious laws like that. "

And how do you want to do that in an islamic country, which by definition puts the word of the Arab god above the ideas of mere humans?

As Shariah countries go, Dubai is actually a moderate one.

Its called an opinion willi, as much as you and I too want them to stop with their draconian religious edicts... I mean laws (and thats loosely termed IMO), they're the ones in control of what they do in their own country.