@JohnAllenson:
Better than Saudi Arabia is an extremely low bar.
This is a country where the police locked school girls in a burning building, crucify teenagers for being Shi'ite, throw political opponents from helicopters, cut the heads off elderly women who write horoscopes, sawed a journalist apart while taping it, and target schools & hospitals in the war on Yemen.
The guy in Dubai may not be safe - especially if he's one of their non-citizen slaves employees who have no protection under the laws.
Wahabism is the most extreme/conservative version of islam. They follow Wahab, 1st and foremost, and if he doesn't talk about something they then go back to the quran and Mohammed.