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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Bill who wrote (45454)2/22/2006 11:29:32 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
"It's hardly private enterprise, as we know it here. The Dubai company is owned by the state. The state is Muslim."

1) Neither the British company nor the Dubai company is owned, directly or indirectly, by the US government or any political subdivision thereof. From the perspective of US law, it is private enterprise.

2) A state is a legal entity. As such, it has no religious beliefs of its own. It may, however, make laws that find their origins in religious beliefs, so that is perhaps what you mean by saying it "is Muslim." Nevertheless, the US operations of a company based in or even owned by the state of Dubai are subject to US law and US regulation. It may also choose to comply with its home country laws, of course, but nothing about the Islamic origins of any of their laws can affect those US operations in any way that violates US law.

3) Bigotry is bigotry.
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