'UAE Built on slave labour' I agreee that's disgusting but.....
Did you pay any attention during black history month? So at one time was this country. Selective attention??
We used to hang people - there are even records of children - for stealing
Once we had no law against a man raping his wife.
I'm old enough to remember when domestic violence was treated as a personal family affair. Before it was rightly challenged and improved
In this country centuries ago, people were burned at the stake/beheaded/hanged for professing a different religion, or opposite political views.
Once women had no right to vote. A woman had to die before it changed
Once it was legal to hit your wife, as long as it didn't leave a mark
Once it was illegal to practice 'buggery'
A few decades ago, it was acceptable to give children the strap in school.
A few decades ago, women who had sex outside of marriage and got pregnant had their babies forcibly adopted.
Our democracy and social values have come about through centuries of progressive thinking and challenge, and continues to adapt. We've been pretty barbaric. But you feel you can take the high horse and sneer over countries that have yet to get there? Talk about white washing of history.
Also, we have had an illegal war in Iraq on the justification of false evidence and killed hundreds of thousands and been complicit in the oil for food program which affected Iraq terribly, Plus we are now one of the biggest exporters of weapons to the Saudi states which are devastating Yemen.
Glass houses. Stones. Stop getting all your info from mainstream newspapers which describe the war in Iraq as a 'mistake' instead of a war crime, and denigrate countries the establishment would like to undermine.