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London teen jailed for one year in Dubai after 'holiday romance' with 17-year-old girl (www.mylondon.news)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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Marcus, from Tottenham, North London, had been enjoying a holiday with his parents when he met a fellow Brit at the same hotel. A holiday fling sparked and the pair spent time together until the girl, also from London, flew back to Britain.

In Dubai, if an adult has a sexual relationship with a person under 18, they can be prosecuted for having a sexual relationship with a minor. The relationship would be legal in the UK.

Marcus and his parents were set to fly back shortly after - but their plans were thrown into chaos when police knocked on their hotel room door. The "terrified" teenager was then reportedly hauled in for questioning without any explanation and held at the Al Barsha Police Station, DID said. He spent three days there, during which time he was not allowed to make a phone call or speak with his parents, it is claimed.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

I wonder if there is a law in the UK that would allow the parents of the boy to sue the mother of the girl for snitching. Like, she weaponized the laws of another country that criminalize behaviours that are legal in the UK, for things that happened between UK citizens abroad. That sounds like something UK legislators might have the power and incentive to legislate, right?

Also, I would not fault the girl if she hated her horrible mother for the rest of her life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

You know, laws and code have a lot in common. In both, if you change something at the wrong place, another totally unrelated part will behave different or stop working entirelly. And then there's edge cases, whose handling was entirely forgotten.

[+] nifty -26 points 4 hours ago (7 children)

The comments in this thread are practically Islamophobic and naive.

When you travel to another country, just abide by its culture and customs.

Like you cant go to India and disrespect cows, or now eat beef in public.

The comments are also naive because they show how unaware the commenters are about what actually goes on in rich countries and events for affluent people.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

When you travel to another country, just abide by its culture and customs.

WDYM? The prophet "married" a ~~13~~ 9 year old.

Edit: It's even worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

If I live in an islamic nation and am islamophobic does that make me racist to myself?

[–] Makhno 24 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Uh yeah fuck Islam. Fuck the Judaism and Christianity too. See? Easy.

[–] lurklurk 2 points 2 hours ago

They're certainly old enough

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Okay so how do I fuck these religions exactly? I can go to these theocratic states and start doing whatever I want? Symbolising my freedom?

Why don't you try it? Let's see how far you can go to freeing humanity from the shackles of religion.

[–] Dasus 1 points 1 hour ago

"The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien [beliefs and cultures]. They invoke divine sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam, and it might not be unreasonable to suggest that it would have been better for Western civilization if Greece had moulded it on this question rather than Palestine."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_monotheism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

With a rocket. And I don't give a fuck where you're at.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

if we're shitposting after all, fuck you all. checkmate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

You thinking that acknowledging theocracy as awful is bigotry?

[–] Tangent5280 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Islamophobic? Nah. Naive, hell yeah. You should watch what you do like a hawk when you're going to places like Dubai. Have a good understanding of what is legal and what isn't, like eating outside during Ramadan - this can get you actual jailtime instead of a fine or a slap on the wrist like you'd expect.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dubai is a shithole full of rich assholes and their slave workers and influencers who are paid to paint it in pink online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

i like the part where they have a constant line of tanker trucks moving shit from buildings to wherever they dump it, because they couldn't be bothered building a sewage system.

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[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 hours ago

When you go through puberty, every single cell in your body is telling you to have sex NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW due to well over a billion years of evolution.

This culture is punishing a teenager for not fighting evolution.

Of course, they probably don't believe in evolution either, but that doesn't change the fact that they're punishing a teenager for lacking self-control (like most teenagers) and doing what his body is telling him to do in order to fulfil his biological imperative.

[–] trashgirlfriend 6 points 3 hours ago

Akshually it's islamophobia to say that a lot of the laws in Dubai are bad!

[–] [email protected] 70 points 17 hours ago (13 children)

Hard to feel sorry about anyone travelling to Dubai.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 14 points 2 hours ago

Correct for adults, but this was the kid travelling with his parents. It's likely that the decision was the parents' - also, most kids are not very well-versed in politics.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure his parents were the ones making the trip and he was forced to come along whether he wanted to or not what with him living under his parents' roof.

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