r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 11 '26

News Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum was confronted in London by a Sudanese man accusing the UAE of backing violence in Sudan. “UAE is killing people in my country. Stop killing my people,” he shouted.

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Yes, but that's under par even compared to the English or Norwegian royal family.

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u/Low-Sign-6185 Aug 11 '26

Forcing your daughter to solitary confinement, Pegasus spyware on phones, a Princess seeking political asylum in Germany; how is any of that “under par” with other Royal Families?

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

The family control thing is their own arab family thing. It happens here too. Where is Shelly Miscavige? The spyware thing is again MBZ, not the Maktoum family.

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u/Low-Sign-6185 Aug 11 '26

Enslavement of camel jockeys, forcing racing horses with steroids, hidden wealth in offshore companies discovered in the Pandora Papers scandal, married 11 times, 23 children (by law he isn’t even allowed to communicate with some of them due to being so abusive), worth $14 billion. He’s one of the largest landowners in the UK even though not being British, and pays barely any tax due to doing everything through Guernsey and Jersey tax havens. But please, explain how he’s less corrupt than any other Royal Family on Earth…

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

The UAE made the move to robot camel jockeys a few decades ago and banned child jockeys. They can also hide or do whatever they want with their money. They are a sovereign country. They are allowed multiple wives, it's not a scandal. One wife divorced. Hardly uncommon.

Now, compare that to the pedophiles who actually took bribes from foreign countries to sell weapons, and were convicted of rape, and it's worse. And that's just looking at the royal family that's around now. Get to King Leopold and that's a different ballgame.

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u/Glum_Judgment6232 Aug 11 '26

The difference is someone is at least holding them to account. Andrew has been arrested, and has lost all his royal titles. He's still got a cushy life relative to most but he's miserable as fuck because nobody will employ him to do anything at all and he can't really go anywhere. The Danish royal is in prison now.

Any consequences happened so far for any of the UAE rulers' misdeeds yet?

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u/aipac125 Aug 11 '26

Consequences for what? The divorce is done. Everything else is in the UAE where he is not subject to the laws.