What Do You Think?

[janetyu]

I found this at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8573565.stm

Is this really what Islam controlled countries are like?


17 March 2010

Dubai jails Indian pair for 'sexy texts'


Steamy text messages have resulted in a three-month jail sentence for a Indian man and an Indian woman in Dubai.

Judges ruled that they had planned to "commit sin", a reference to an extramarital affair - which is illegal in the United Arab Emirates.

The unnamed pair, aged 47 and 42, were working as cabin crew for Dubai's Emirates airline.

Their "sexy texts" first surfaced last year, in a divorce lawsuit by the woman's estranged husband.

Crimes of passion

The Indian pair were originally sentenced to six months in jail, followed by deportation.

But an appeals court reduced the term and gave them the option to remain in the country.

The court said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the man and the woman had actually had an affair, which could have brought a harsher sentence.

This is the latest in a series of cases where foreigners have been found to have broken Dubai's conservative laws.

Earlier this week, a British couple said they would appeal a one-month jail sentence for exchanging a passionate kiss in a restaurant.

In 2008, two Britons were sentenced to three months in jail for what authorities described as sex on the beach. The sentences were later suspended.

[evitteecand]

In many if not most Muslim controlled countries and/or sub-regions (non-legal governments within another country), simply holding hands or talking to someone of the opposite sex alone (even without contact) or in some cases just looking at each other for "too long" can get the people arrested, fined, and sentenced to very harsh punishments.

Islam is one sick and scary religion / control system / cult.