Blue Llama
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The whole article is innuendo and third party hearsay dressed up with specific claims against individual distant relations of Sheikh Mansoor. The writer claims that Sheikh is no more than a front for the UAE without a single bit of evidence to support it. He then goes on to use obvious situations 'voiced' negatively. e.g. ADUG are not investing in City for financial gain, its to promote Abu Dhabi. We know that you idiot and we don't care but you manage to make it sound as though its a business front for a crime syndicate. I have been to Abu Dhabi and stayed very close to a building project where thousands of migrant workers would stream out at the end of their shift. Did they look hounded, down trodden, shifty, afraid, desperate? Were they manacled to warders or heavily monitored as they left for their buses? No, to all of that, they looked as though they were leaving AEI in Trafford Park in the 60s; tired but happy, normal behaviour for manual and skilled workers at the end of their day. I wont argue about how offenders are treated but I know that if you do offend there is no liberal group suggesting you offended because of the way you were treated as a 5 year old. The Arab world as a whole works very much on the idea that you do the crime you take your punishment. If you don't like the rules that apply in the country and you are the type that doesn't believe rules are for them don't go there. I am in no position to argue for or against individuals who are held in the state as described by the writer but we only have their belief that its because they are a Human Rights activist. They can argue all they want that the individual is supported by Amnesty International but it wouldn't be the first time that organisation got it wrong. This makes interesting reading: -
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/books/a..._methodology_corruption_and_anti_israel_bias/
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/books/a..._methodology_corruption_and_anti_israel_bias/