Roy Hudd,
To be fair, I would be careful with that statement. I spent a number of years there and when I was an FO, flew with a number of very good Emirati operators who were very qualified captains. When I became a captain, I flew with many very qualified Emirati FO's with varying degrees's of experience and never felt like any one of them didn't deserve the right to be in the cockpit. Conversely, there have been a number of pilots in both seats from a wide variety of cultures and country's, including the west, that I wondered how they made it through the initial assessment.
I can't speak for the "the other two" but I can say that the standard of training, SOP, OM-A and FCOM compliance was VERY high at EK, I could not argue to the contrary, certainly not in the time I was there.