Facts: Dubai has criminalized sex with under-18-year-olds, probably as a reaction to bad publicity about Mohamed's wife Aisha having been around 10 years old when the marriage was consummated, and Western scandal about Moslem "pedophilia".Wikipedia--How old was the prophet Muhammad's wife? The boy, black, and the girl (presumably white?) each on vacation with their respective families, the boy and girl have a tryst, the boy tells his family but the girl doesn't. The girl's mother finds out from e-mails/text messages on the girl's phone about the tryst and makes a complaint which Dubai police then act upon (probably reluctantly). SEE LINK BELOW OTHER SEX LAWS: Dubai has (on the books) draconian homosexuality/sodomy laws, but they appear to be very rarely enforced. https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/united-arab-emirates/ Shariah law specifies the death penalty (apparently not applied in recent history). M. I wonder if the boy had called the girls mother and threatened to say the girl had accepted money and given the boy a blow-job (VERY serious offenses) whether the mother would then have withdrawn her complaint. Anyway, all-in-all, a tempest in a teapot... BBC 6 DAYS AGO--REPORT: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr32zmyz6ro |