Lester Golden
1 min readMar 10, 2024

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You might find this useful to understand the centuries old cycle of innovation-and legacy backlash and backsliding in the Muslim world: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/islam-and-intellectual-infidels-b83b6cdcb7fc

It's basic common sense to go in with your eyes open when your partner has a history of dismembering dissident journalists.

What makes common sense to MBS will change according to the exigencies of preserving power in a rule by law family business with a flag.

The UAE is no democracy, but it already has an Abrahamic Family House. I see no prospect for such an institution in Mecca or Medina.

"exempt from strict Muslim law"--To succeed you'd need to change this to "exempt from all Muslim law"....and put the exemption into the incubator's contract and make it enforceable with the international Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service. (https://www.jamsadr.com/).

Just my inner lawyer, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris common sense talking.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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