Qatar Demonstrating It Is Modernizing

[jab]

Qatar might be somewhat interesting, since I like going to different countries and experiencing different cultures. I don't know, but Qatar probably wouldnt be that interesting to me. Doha is probably nothing but high rise apartments, houses, shopping malls and restaurants. If it is like Saudi Arabia, there are lots of different American fast food venues. I would be open to trying some of their local cuisine, I have eaten Halal food and it is delicious. Maybe go see the Arabian/Persian gulf. Islamic bazzars are fascinating. This is a safe country and would not worry about "terrorism" or being harmed. I would not drink alcohol there unless it is in a private setting, and not walk the streets drinking, since unlike the west, it is not acceptable to be intoxicated in public there. In the end, Qatar would probably be too boring for me to consider going. Dubai would probably be the only place in the region worth seeing, and even there, not so much except the tallest building on Earth.

I am not homosexual and wouldnt care less what the laws on them are. If they cannot conform to their behavior of the nation and culture, dont go there. I am not going to go to another country and tell these people how to live or govern themselves, I am a foreigner, I dont have that right. It is Western and foreign arrogance to go to this country and make protests. Dont like it, dont go. Stay home.

do hope you learn the langauge before you go there; y'know, out of respect for the Quataris in their own home and all.

 

[steve_bank]

I do hope Qatarians learn tp tolerate others. If you want cultural respect give cultural respect to those who do not believe as you do.

IOW the Golden Rule, treat others as you want to be treated. If Qatar disrepects visitors by detention and demanding they take rainbow symbols off ther cloters,if htey come over herer we shold demand they do ot wear Arab head dress.

Saudi Arabian, UAE, and Qatar are trying to buy a respectable image. A good analogy might be The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

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Plot​

Two swindlers arrive at the capital city of an emperor who spends lavishly on clothing at the expense of state matters. Posing as weavers, they offer to supply him with magnificent clothes that are invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent. The emperor hires them, and they set up looms and go to work. A succession of officials, and then the emperor himself, visit them to check their progress. Each sees that the looms are empty but pretends otherwise to avoid being thought a fool.

Finally, the weavers report that the emperor's suit is finished. They mime dressing him and he sets off in a procession before the whole city. The townsfolk uncomfortably go along with the pretense, not wanting to appear inept or stupid, until a child blurts out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all. The people then realize that everyone has been fooled. Although startled, the emperor continues the procession, walking more proudly than ever.

 

[steve_bank]

I do hope Qatarians learn tp tolerate others. If you want cultural respect give cultural respect to those who do not believe as you do.

IOW the Golden Rule, treat others as you want to be treated. If Qatar disrepects visitors by detention and demanding they take rainbow symbols off ther cloters,if htey come over herer we shold demand they do ot wear Arab head dress.

Saudi Arabian, UAE, and Qatar are trying to buy a respectable image. A good analogy might be The Emperor's New Clothes.

The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Plot​

Two swindlers arrive at the capital city of an emperor who spends lavishly on clothing at the expense of state matters. Posing as weavers, they offer to supply him with magnificent clothes that are invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent. The emperor hires them, and they set up looms and go to work. A succession of officials, and then the emperor himself, visit them to check their progress. Each sees that the looms are empty but pretends otherwise to avoid being thought a fool.

Finally, the weavers report that the emperor's suit is finished. They mime dressing him and he sets off in a procession before the whole city. The townsfolk uncomfortably go along with the pretense, not wanting to appear inept or stupid, until a child blurts out that the emperor is wearing nothing at all. The people then realize that everyone has been fooled. Although startled, the emperor continues the procession, walking more proudly than ever.

Trying going to Qatar and be an overt atheist.

 

[lpetrich]

Many nations are against homosexuality for the very reasons that the West has allowed it.

What reasons?

What has ended up in America and Europe is the mainstreaming of unnatural "same sex" intercourse,

If the thought of same-sex sex grosses you out, then why not say so? BTW, I think that gay-rights activists seem to ignore this whole issue of being grossed out by same-sex sex. But to their credit, most homosexual people don't seem grossed out by heterosexual sex.

Grossing out, like describing same-sex sex as "peccatum illud horribile inter christianos non nominandum" in Latin, which I translate as "that horrible sin, among Christians not to be named".

the "grooming" of youth,

Evidence that that happens?

pedophilia,

I like what Gore Vidal called it: rape.

and mentally ill men cutting off their sexual organ, wearing makeup and a dress and demand normalcy.

What a view of transwomen. These are somatically male people who have a female gender identity and who want somatic femaleness to match.

 

[steve_bank]

According to the accounts of the team that got Bin Laden when searching through his papers they found porn.

I have no doubt for the Qatarin elite as always with religion it is do what I say not what I do.