The real thing, though, I bet they are not real happy with the drink, either
A British couple whose drunken escapade led to sex on the beach, tabloid headlines and a clash between Western permissiveness and Islamic values was sentenced Thursday by a Dubai court to three months in prison.
Vince Acors and Michelle Palmer were each sentenced to jail, fined $272 for drinking alcohol and ordered to be deported immediately upon leaving prison. The pair was found guilty of having unmarried sex after a taxi had picked them up from a champagne brunch at a five-star hotel and drove them to Jumeirah beach in the United Arab Emirates’ most culturally-tolerant emirate of Dubai.
“This verdict does not make sense,” Hassan Mattar, the couple’s lawyer told reporters after the guilty verdicts, which also included indecency. “I’m going to appeal it.”
Prosecutor Faisal Abdelmalek Ahil said he expected a harsher sentence. “I’m not happy,” he said outside of court. “It’s very light. It’s normal for a sentence to be six months to a year for an offense such as this.”
Acors and Palmer claim they were just kissing and hugging, but, the court did not believe them.
The media in Britain portrayed the case as another disturbing sign of the nation’s alcohol problem. The British Broadcasting Company reported that the verdict shows that “tourists are ignoring the emirate’s strict Islamic laws and that the outcome of this case will be a warning that such drunken behavior will not be tolerated in public.”
Interesting. If it had been Christians sentencing people to jail for this, can you imagine the outcry from the media? But, no, this occured in Muslim World, so, we have to respect their insane 13th century culture.
I love Sex On The Beach. Both the shot and the mixed drink are awesome.
You would make a bad Muslim :D