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Old 06-09-2009, 10:24 PM   #51 (permalink)
dlish
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my apologies for not posting more often here. i was re-posted back to Abu Dhabi, so my internet access is intermittant and has been curbed significantly.

Leto, since your emails require some time and im currently at work, ill answer those when i get home later tonight. i think that they're great questions.


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Originally Posted by genuinegirly View Post
Dlish -

I imagine someone with an Australian passport would not deal with this issue, and you don't seem to dress in those picturesque white robes (what is their real name?) while traveling but...
Do you ever feel singled-out when passing through airport security?

You seem to travel a lot between Australia and Dubai (and elsewhere!).

does this answer your question :P







in all seriousness, i think ive got it lucky that i do have an aussie passport. it allows me to get to anywhere i want with relative ease. i have had problems at airports though, where ive been searched.

ive been 'randomly selected' twice in Sydney where they test your luggage for explosives, and ive been tested in Bruneii for drugs.

i have only travelled in robes in an airport to Yemen, but that is all. every other place i travel in cargo pants and a t-shirt and have had no problems.

i am unsure of the randomness of my testing, but with an arabic name, i expect to be questioned. not that it makes it right, but i dont get my hopes up. with all the talk about AQ recruiting westerners to do their dirty work because of the ease of which they can get into some countries, im not all that fussed since i have nothing to hide. i do have issues with people freaking out and reporting people that look like arabs or muslims, or even hindus.

i have been through JFK airport, and had no problems. i do recall some hindus in turbans were whisked away into another room because they looked 'different'.

the robes have many different names depending on where you come from. in and around lebanon, syria, jordan etc, they are called abaya (yes abaya's nick is named after this!), in pakistan its silwar kameez, here in the UAE its called a dishdasha (dish-dash as the westerners call them). ive only ever worn a dish dash a few times here, sometimes around the house but rarely outside.
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