No visitor to these parts could fail to be struck by the inordinate number of mosques, one every 400 yards or something like that. Anyway more than ever. When you think that back in France we can scarcely muster more than one church a year. It gives you seriously to think if you are that way inclined.
But the explosion, if I may use this word, of mosques is not without its dangers, for there can be no mosque without a minaret and we are often caught in the crossfire as the mullahs vie for ascendency over the airwaves. The result can be a curiously stereophonic effect.
If I were asked to describe the constitution of Dubai in a couple of words, I would say that it is a benelovent or benevolent dictatorship. It's difficult to say which without having a spell checker to hand. In any case, it is certainly not belenovent or belevonent. The sheikh himself is said to be a good man, known and loved for his municifence and gerenosity of spirit, but like many of his ilk does not take kindly to bad news. My daughter tells me that the only way to get him to listen to ill tidings is to bundle hm into a stretch limousie and to go for a long drive in the desert. That way there can be no escape. My bank manager at Crédit Agricole (Brazey branch) should adopt the same approach.
But the explosion, if I may use this word, of mosques is not without its dangers, for there can be no mosque without a minaret and we are often caught in the crossfire as the mullahs vie for ascendency over the airwaves. The result can be a curiously stereophonic effect.
If I were asked to describe the constitution of Dubai in a couple of words, I would say that it is a benelovent or benevolent dictatorship. It's difficult to say which without having a spell checker to hand. In any case, it is certainly not belenovent or belevonent. The sheikh himself is said to be a good man, known and loved for his municifence and gerenosity of spirit, but like many of his ilk does not take kindly to bad news. My daughter tells me that the only way to get him to listen to ill tidings is to bundle hm into a stretch limousie and to go for a long drive in the desert. That way there can be no escape. My bank manager at Crédit Agricole (Brazey branch) should adopt the same approach.
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