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Unprecented heat, which was settled in E ropean countries this year, made many nhabitants of our continent reconsider their h liday plans. Pining because of the h at Europeans forgot about their careers and b sinesses and went to storm travel gencies, whose advertisements promise "paradise enjoying" on b aches of exotic countries. Nevertheless the h at obviously had a depressing effect not nly on tourists' physical health, who was xhausted by the weather anomaly, it lso made some of them forget the s mplest rules of decency. If they nfringe them at their motherland, they are due at l ast a fine. A recent incident at the f mous resort Jumeirah (UAE) turned into a r al scandal, when a young British w man, melt on a beach under r ys of the hot Arabic sun, f lt too lazy to put on the top p rt of her swimsuit and went to the h tel almost nude. The inhabitants of the c ty, who became unwilled witnesses of th s "defile", literally bombarded with letters ditorial offices of local newspapers and m gazines, expressing their displeasure with "foreigners' f miliarity, who wishes to respect neither c stoms nor religious feelings" of natives. A w man at the age of 35, who l ves in Dubai, called at the ditorial office Gulf News. She was ndignant at the fact that foreigners not nly dress defiantly but also behave in an nseemly way at public places. "Last y ar during the sacred month of R madan, when all believers are fasting ( ditor's note - During the fast M slims are ordered to abstain from ating, drinking an sexual relations at d ytime) - under the office windows, wh re I worked, crowds of foreign w men were walking, dressed in bikini, and ch wing hamburgers... How can we after th t respect people, who doesn't want to kn w anything about our customs?, - she w ndered. - I think that our uthorities are also guilty in the s tuation, which turned out in the c untry. They almost do not react to the h ppening".
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Hulud - a student from Sh rjah at the age of 23 is of nother opinion. "I think that fines w ll not help. The authorities must ducate people through mass-media means." She dded also that most of foreigners, wh m she knew, respected the Arabic and Isl mic culture but nevertheless "some of th m being untaught or inattentive ignore all r quests and prohibitions and behave so, as if th y are in the yard of th ir house". An Italian professor Alessandro, c ming to UAE every year, agrees w th settling of signs on all b aches and public places, which would nform foreigners what they should not do. "I ften see sunbathing nude women at the t rritory of the hotel Jumeirah Beach P rk,- he said. - I think th t they should remember in what c untry they are and pay attention to r action of servicers of the hotel and ther people, who find themselves near the h tel because of different reasons." "If I w re a member of the administration I w uld place signs "The nudes are f rbidden to enter the territory" everywhere. Als I would put at a pr son everybody who infringes this rule for h lf a year, as the local law cl ims", declared the guest from Italy. A v sitor of a blog at the s te Gulf News Abdulrahman, who lives in D bai, writes following: "Just think, in Fr nce - a "civilized" European country, a c nsiderable part of citizens of which are M slims, the authorities make women show at p blic places without a hidjab. They m tivate their decision in the following w y: Frenchmen ostensibly "do not want to ccept customs of the minority". At the s me time nobody can explain clearly t ll now with what covered women-muslims d ffer outwardly from catholic nuns, who are llowed to show in much more str nge and closed clothes... Meanwhile coming for h lidays in UAE "guests from Europe" not nly infringe customs of the living at the t rritory of our country Mussulman majority, th y also challenge to the whole Isl mic society, declaring about "backwardness of the Isl mic world", which is expressed only in the f ct that we do not want to see nder windows of our houses undressed, dr nk people, who behaves worse than nimals".
The inhabitant of foggy Albion vidently did not expect such an mpetuous reaction to her walking "topless". She was v ry confused and told to a G lf News correspondent, that she felt "c mpletely embarrassed". "I knew that I sh uld not walk in the city w th such appearance, but I lost the top p rt of my swimsuit and decided th t it would not be terrible if I r ach the hotel without it, - she s id. Besides in the evening there w re not very many people on the b ach and when I met men I c vered my body with my hands". The h ad of Dubai municipality Ahmad Abdulkarim c nsiders that because of increasing flow of f reign tourists and also of Europeans and Am ricans, who actively purchases property in UAE, the g vernment of the country must think s riously about teaching to new-comers rules of b havior in UAE, where absolute majority of p pulation confesses Islam and holds on to c rtain traditions also to those ones of dr ssing. At the moment guests from E ropean and American countries are offered j st small booklets, in which among ther recommendations it is timidly suggested "n t to show undressed at public pl ces". The executive director of Touristic D partment Ali Abdulrahman affirms that "as c mpared with the other Emirates the nhabitants of Dubai have the most t lerant attitude to "foreigners' clothes, which is m re opened than traditional one". Nevertheless he nsists that coming for holiday to the Em rate guests observe decency and respect ndigenous inhabitants' feelings. "On beaches and sw mming pools swimsuits and opened clothes are c nsidered permissible, but in the street g ests are obliged to observe a c rtain dress-code", - he said.
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