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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your issue is with your chain smoking, Arab neighbor. He’s F-ing with you for complaining about him.

You’re turning this into an issue about a symbol that is sacred to some people and no one that it’s sacred to put it on your door.

The guy is calling you racist because you’re making this about the symbol, not the fact that you and your neighbor have issues.

Stop blaming the cleaners who have no reason whatsoever to f with you. You know who your problem is with.

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OP didn’t blame the cleaners. The building manager tried to claim the Indian cleaners put it on her door and that she is racist. [/quote]

The OP posted this, which he likely told the office manager:

“[b]Yes, I understand what the swastika means in India. But Dubai is NOT INDIA. Just like the US is NOT INDIA. If drawing swastikas over someone's door is wrong in the US, which is not India, then it should be wrong in any country that is...not India.”[/b]

You can’t go different countries and dictate like this.

The office manager should not have told the OP that it may have been the cleaners but let’s be real here. Is he going to blame the Arab guy? In the Arab country? Seriously? OP is not in America or Europe. OP is not in a democracy. 
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Most of the posters don't know Dubai or the UAE. The only "privileged" Arab would be Emiratis followed by other Gulf Arabs, but their numbers in Dubai are fairly small and tend to live in villas. There is no favoritism for other Arabs from, say, Egypt or Lebanon or Iraq. The German building manager isn't going to be afraid of a Lebanese or Jordanian Arab over a western expat. If anything, they tend to be lower on the expat status pole. The only exception would be if somehow religion got involved and people were trading insults over Islam. [/quote]

Let’s see, in an Arab country:
A) Blame the Indian cleaners for using a symbol known to be sacred to them or
B) Blame the Arab down the hall for being anti-Semitic.

Which option do you think will least likely cause a stir about Islam?

The guy is doing damage control. The OP needs to understand the culture of the place they decided to move to.

Op, go back to addressing the smoking violation and see if they can move you. 
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