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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would never stop in Dubai.[/quote]

+1   I don't want any of my hard earned dollars to be supporting any of the Middle Eastern countries and their regimes.

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Well, then don't vote b/c Republicans and Democrats take oil money.  Or buy gas for that matter.

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I know both political parties are guilty but I do try to vote for the 'lesser of the evils' to the best of my ability whenever its voting time.  We have one very fuel efficient car and also try to be responsible.

This isn't an all or nothing deal, where I can make my small difference and support my conscious- I do.

I refuse to glamorize the excessive luxuries in the M.E. and go there as tourists, ooh-ing and ahh-ing and supporting their tourist economy while overlooking their funding of radicalization abroad.

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Your ignorance is quite astonishing.  Well, given you are likely a pompous American, not astonishing but sad.[/quote]

That's quite a bold statement with nothing but a temper tantrum to back it up.

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Ok. You have a fuel efficient car. Big deal. Oil from the ME is rarely refined into gasoline. And if it did, Dubai generates very little income from the petroleum business. Roughly, 5 % of their GDP. They are, however, the workd's largest re-exporter. So, given your moral superiority, I am certain you have checked the provenance of all of the items you use and regularly purchase. Including all those cut flowers, many of which are grown in east Africa and then distributed through Dubai.

Of course, perched on your high horse, you knew all this already.

Perhaps you'd like to provide some fact (and not an MSNBC, Fox News, Vice, or Vox type tantrum)[/quote]

You're awfully offended that I have made a personal choice not to travel to places like Dubai due to not wanting to glamorize tourism of countries that fund radicalization globally.

The previous poster made the snide remark about gas and I responded that I try to be responsible with that regard as well.  Now you're making assumptions about "all those cut flowers" that I am presumably filling up all the room of my home in to make some sort of a point??

Go ahead and glamorize those countries, but then you must also not be hypocritical and denounce the radical teachings done in madrassas and mosques around the world that get their funding from somewhere.

But then again maybe you don't find those teachings abhorrent at all and that's why you think I'm a "pompous American" and "perched on a high horse" and that my "ignorance is astonishing".

I won't be hypocritical and go to those countries with fake smiles while just talking bad about them on the internet.  Then again I also wouldn't have freedoms to say whatever I want on the internet or out loud in those countries either...

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Show me one madrasah in Dubai. Or one mosque where that is taught. Just one. And when you can't, please think of the many millions of dollars Dubai and the UAE in general have contributed to Christian Churches in the UAE.

You can maintain whatever opinion you choose. You're ignorant and pompous and exude a since of moral superiority because you maintain those opinions without any basis in fact and being willfully blind to the fact that you support the very economies you castigate without even knowing it!  Your fuel efficient car?  Made from plastic. Plastic is a by-product of the refining of heavy petroleum. That is what ME oil is. Your roads?  Asphalt. Heavy crude. Your roof?  Asphalt shingles. Your government?  Well, that's best left to the politics board. [/quote]

What you seem to be willfully ignoring is that things like the roads, roofs, etc are not easily within my circle of what I can control.  Where I decide to support economies by way of tourist travel is very much within the means of my control.

I'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water by just saying, oh well the roof has asphalt shingles so I'm going to Dubai.  I'm doing my part based on my conscious.

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Ok. I guess you're limiting your tourist dollars to Greenland. Maybe Antarctica. Those seem to be about the only places that would stand up to your standards of not exporting global radicalization.

To me, you remain an ignorant hypocrite. [/quote]

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