Precisely Fatima. The UAE (and even Qatar) can't keep playing this schizophrenic game of "we're open but we aren't" Either you're totally open, like the West and you support people's individual rights to say & wear what they like, or you don't.

Personally I don't care either way. Make me wear an abaya, don't make me wear an abaya. Let me drink in public, don't let me drink in public. Make up your bleeding minds already.

I mean, as much as I disagree with Frances burkha ban, at least they're being clear about it, instead of wishy washy like the ME!