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One Comment
It is hard to comment on the disaster of this magnitude.
But somehow I cannot help myself to share this true story:
My very close friends work for an American global construction company Bechtel. For a couple of years they were assigned to the Emirates. Not particular fans of Arabs, their wives could not drive a car ( but had chauffeurs) or drink whisky, they were absolutely shocked when one day the Sheik decided to abolish all the debts of his subjects.
Them Muslims!