Chris Saul's Blog

Wednesday July 22, 2009

Decency strikes

This is an odd story. It's a shame that the police didn't inform people in advance that they were starting to implement the 8 year old law. Being picked up and taken down the station must be quite scary.

Still, you learn something every day - I wasn't aware that jewellery wasn't permitted for muslim men (at least according to the interpretation being enforced here).

I think everyone knows that Sharjah's stricter than other emirates, but I didn't realise that you couldn't wear shorts there. I've wandered around the blue souk in shorts on a couple of occasions. Next time I will make sure my knobbly knees are hidden from view so as not to offend.

Sheikhly Fame

Pop over to Sheikh Mo's Facebook page and you'll see a couple of recently posted photos of him giving some coffee to a family in the desert.

The family he met are my colleague Craig Reynolds'. They were all having a barbeque in the dunes off a main road, when Sheikh Mo popped over to say hello. Pretty cool!