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Monday 29 December 2014

United Arab Emirate (UAE) Hotel Displays an 11 Million Dollar Christmas Tree


The luxury Emirates Palace hotel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) unveils a Christmas tree. It's not just any ordinary tree. It's decorated with over 11 million dollars' worth of jewelry. Here's more.

This Christmas tree is decorated with over 11 million dollars' worth of jewelry. It is sitting at the luxury Emirates Palace hotel in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi.

[Janet Abrahams, Executive Director Sales & Marketing, Emirates Palace Hotel]: 
"This year, we partnered with Mr Khalifa Khoury, who is the chairman of Star Gallery and he has provided us with 11 million dollars' worth of precious stones and jewelry and that enables us to go for the Guinness world record for the most expensive Christmas tree."



The tree is 42-and-a-half feet tall. It is decorated with diamonds -- a lovely match for the main gold covered dome of the hotel.

This dome also hosted the world's first ATM gold machine introduced to the hotel earlier this year.

A local jeweler provided the tree with 131 different jewelry pieces, including gold and precious stones.

Tourists and visitors stopped to take a picture near the unique tree, or just to stare at it in amazement.

Some public commentators termed the Christmas tree extravaganza costing 11million pounds wasteful.  However, what possible justification can there be for spending such grotesque amounts of money for something that is not even steeped in authentic Christian traditions let alone in Islam?

One 
Ajmal Masroor, on Facebook said,  why decorate a tree with gold and silver while millions of human beings still die of hunger, thirst and cold all around the world? It wasn't that long ago when the Middle East including the UAE was so poor that they couldn't even afford clean water and lived in tents, traveled on camels and ate dry dates. Have they forgotten their humble past?

Today, God's gift to the people of the region is in the hands of a small handful of bandits; the oil and gas wealth in this part of the world has made the paupers become kings; their wastefulness, arrogance and ostentatiousness seem to have no bounds. Have they no shame?

He further reiterated his
 fear of a day when they will be returned to their original state, for this is nature's way of re-balancing the environment but in the mean time what could we do to send a message to the thieves of Middle East that their days are numbered?

UAE today has become the iconic destination for opulence, decadence and extravagance; I am not just disgusted by what I witness in the UAE today I am roused to call for global action against these peoplehe added.

Can you imagine the proceeds from the oil of the North Sea being pocketed by the Prime Minister or the Queen of England? Well, that is exactly what is happening in the Middle East. The natural minerals of the Middle Eastern countries are privately owned and syphoned off by the royal families. The locals are not even offered scraps! 



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