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2004-08-28 Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-08-28 2:05:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What I find very interesting is that the writer refers to Qatar as an Emirate.
Getting the most simple fact wrong.
Tells a lot, doesn't it?

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-29 3:17:46 AM|| 2004-08-29 3:17:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Whaddaya blathering about?
From: http://www.qatar-info.com/
"Political System
Qatar is an emirate with a conventional hereditary system. It is ruled by the Al Thani family whose presence in the peninsula dates from the eighteenth century. The Al Thani are named after the doyen of the family Sheikh Thani bin Mohamed who is the father of Sheikh Mohamed bin Thani, the first ruler of the Qatar peninsula in the mid nineteenth century. Al Thani are a branch of the Arab tribe of Beni Tameem.

The Emir is the head of state. In accordance with the modified provisional constitution, the Emir decrees laws on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers and after consultation with the Advisory Council. The Council of Ministers, appointed by an Emiri decree, is the highest executive authority in the land. However, laws are not enacted until after Emiri consent."

Posted by Zarathustra 2004-08-29 3:28:48 AM|| 2004-08-29 3:28:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It is a country. But the rest is correct.
They don't call it an Emirate, because there are seven emirates that have united into a country right next to it.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-29 3:34:06 AM|| 2004-08-29 3:34:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Quatar. Political system: Emirate
Quatar is emirate. Period.

Posted by Zarathustra 2004-08-29 3:47:52 AM|| 2004-08-29 3:47:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Correct.
Political system: Emirate.
Official name : Country.

Posted by Gentle 2004-08-29 3:50:09 AM|| 2004-08-29 3:50:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Official name: Quatar

Posted by Zarathustra 2004-08-29 4:17:48 AM|| 2004-08-29 4:17:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Terrorism Scmerrorism! What is it with these harsh terms when we are talking about what is simply an Arab custom. You know, a custom, a Death Cult.

I think we need to be more tolerant of other cultures and accept their strange practices, which include the need to kill children, as in chechen; after all we tolerate the pagan ritual of child sacrifice in America, we accept the pieties of pagan eugenecists who practise baby murder, even as the baby is trying to be born.

We must dispense with these harsh terms. In America, doctors don't call it "Abortion" anymore, doctors call it "Pregnancy modification". And it is available to all creeds and cultures, from sea to shining sea.

Posted by A schill for Gentle, a schekel for appeasement 2004-09-03 4:20:36 PM|| 2004-09-03 4:20:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, right on. Sleep...Sleep...

Posted by Comment Top 2004-09-03 4:22:50 PM|| 2004-09-03 4:22:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ...Terrorism...a Arab custom, a Death Cult...

You said it, schilly.

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-03 4:27:46 PM|| 2004-09-03 4:27:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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