I dont mean places that are like ragingly anticommunist (which is most places I think), but they have like appalling social issues. Say like UAE or any of the Gulf states that use slave labor and indentured servitude on a mass scale. Like would you say visiting dubai or doha is morally questionable? A friend is offering to visit Muscat cuz there are cheap flights but I dont know if I should. Or are there ways I can ameliorate my staying there, like maybe giving money to some orgs or something. Idk what do you think
I know a comrade who is in Saudi Arabia right now, but only 'cause he was expected to be there (he’s not Muslim anymore anyway).
He basically wanted to get a feel for Mecca and Medina and wanted to see what it was like in there; also, he wanted to take pictures and see whether it truly was “normal” or as bad as we know it to be.
It’s funny because I’m thinking that going to Saudi Arabia makes a bit more sense when one thinks about it; the UAE would raise me an eyebrow, though, no question, because it doesn’t really have any such excuse as having the literal Holy Land for Muslims that every Muslim has to go at least once in a life-time.
Frankly, I don’t know what to think of my friend going to Saudi Arabia but he’s young and I believe had no choice in the matter and, either way, I can’t just interfere in a Muslim comrade making that choice, otherwise I feel like an asshole and a bigot.
Visiting Mecca as an apostate is an actual crime, which makes it cool.
lmao He says that he’s not afraid at all and feels that it would be an insult to the Saudis, if anything.
yeah I would say his situation is understandable, and if he has to go he might as well make the most of it. Its such a cliche but I’ve always enjoyed travelling; my dads job took us all around the world and I’ve had the bug ever since. I want to visit as many countries as I can but this desire has been tempered by my political awakening and increasing awareness of just how fucked up some places are. Figured I would ask for some advice
I love traveling and used to travel a lot when I was younger, despite being poorer.