What an appealingly tolerant view.
All this is further smoothed by a relatively liberal social environment, encouraged by Dubai's influential former ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, who died in 1990.
"Sheikh Rashid, when he was starting out," says Jeremy Williams, "said 'I am going to build a mosque, a church, a pub and a prison - and people will decide where they want to go'."
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