Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : My (21M) best friend (22F) wants to visit the UAE during holidays for whatever reason. She doesn't want to go alone and I'm pretty much the only one who could come along (finances, holiday dates, willingness to travel). Normally I'd jump up and say yes immediately because I usually struggle to find people to travel with as well, but for me the UAE are off limits.

I'm a law student and I've become quite obsessed with laws (obviously lol), so even if a law is not enforced, if the punishment is too high I view it as if it were enforced very strictly, because "not enforced" just means you submit yourself to the  arbitrariness of the local authorities if you violate said law.

Now I know that lots of people probably travel to the UAE together as unmarried couples, for business trips or whatever, but I will absolutely never enter a country that has the legal authority to arrest you for poppy seeds stuck on your shoes (actually happened to a Swiss guy) or that bases it's legal system on sharia law or similarly strict codes (e.g. China is a no-go-zone for me as well because of the VPN ban, I feel entitled to my privacy). I told my friend I would absolutely never go there with her (I wouldn't go alone either) and she got pissed because 1) I'm the only one who could and 2) I'm being overly cautious. She knows I'd go if it wasn't for the law. AITA for not going for these reasons?