If there is one region in the world that is externally Western looking but essentially Medieval in mindset is the Middle East. If only they did not have that dastardly oil, they would in fact be nothing in this world.
And so it goes that quintessentially familiar and horrifying story about a woman who is raped, goes to the police to report the incident and someone is swiftly charged and imprisoned, only that in this region, it's the VICTIM that has the misfortune, twice I should say, of being physically raped by someone and humiliatingly punished for being a victim by authorities.
Just read about this hapless Norwegian woman who is raped in a hotel room, reports the incident, advised by the police to say it was voluntary, complies with such advice and gets an additional charge of making false testimony! WHAT THE HELL!!!
Frankly, my fellow Filipino's working in the Middle East is no stranger to this scenario, luckily, the woman is a Norwegian and will probably get better results than Filipinos who suffer the same fate, needless to say, European or Filipino, there is something awfully brutal about Middle Eastern ideology, and that is, it's institutionalized misogyny, no less aggravated by Islam, a religion that is for all intents and purposes, biased against women, homosexuals and non-Muslims.
For all it's material progress, Dubai is no different than say, Afghanistan or Pakistan. It's much hyped openness is nothing but a false veneer displayed to attract Western capital and ingenuity. Fundamentally, Dubai bereft of its towering skyscrapers, like most of the Middle East and most Muslim majority countries, is just Medieval Europe transplanted in the 21st century.
It's really a shame, a shocking scandal to modern conscience, that such inhumanity, misogyny and gross human rights violations are perpetrated in a so-called modern, capitalist, and "open" city as Dubai bills itself. And if this happens in Dubai, I can only imagine what victims of rape, both male and female, will further suffer in other parts of the Middle East less wealthy, less "open", less cosmopolitan than Dubai. Tragic....
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