Virtually no member of the middle class, which includes just about all expatriate workers, is without at least one all-night guard.
This was only the second time that Emirati citizens, whose Numbers are dwarfed by expatriate workers, have voted in the country's 40-year history.
The measures have been taken solely against the Protestant churches, which cater for refugees from Sudan and Iraq and expatriate workers, as well as for Syrians.