Human Rights in the UAE

I'm having a hard time conciliating these two seemingly very far apart stories coming out of Dubai.

Great job for the woman trying to tackle the issue of pedophilia in her country. Please keep at it.
Here's the story.

Yet, this is the same country that accused a woman of having extra-marital sex and jailed for it, when in fact she was raped, and had to drop charges as part of a plea bargain. Really shameful and disgusting.
Here's that story.

BG

Introducing....Cedar Island!!

Oh yes, Lebanon is about to get just a little big larger! No Israel is not giving us back the Shabaa Farms, no, no, even better--get this, we're going to BUILD MORE LAND! IN THE SHAPE OF A CEDAR!!! Genius, no??? When every known Lebanese male is an engineer, you think we would have thought of this earlier!

Don't believe me, check out the official site for the project right here:

http://www.cedarsisland.com/

Also, read this very funny and very true blog comparing Lebanon to Dubai (that built the Palm Jebel Ali resort) in the wake of the Cedar Project:

http://qifanabki.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/stop-cedar-island/#comment-384

And finally, look at this blog to see a funny take on which "Cedar" (Ouwet, Kateib, national flag, AUB...) the proposed Island actually resembles...

http://adiamondinsunlight.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/a-treehouse-in-the-sea/

May I propose Islands in the shape of a Phonecian man next?

This is my architectural rendering, if anyone would like to finance this project, please email: lazaytouni@gmail.com

(That orange thing is a fish, just fyi)

~LZ