Qatar Bashing

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Suggestion to Qatari..
this forum must be named " Islam & Qatar Bashing" instead of Qatar living.

troll???????
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Agree with you there..

"A troll is a user of a newsgroup, forum or message board that posts messages with the intent of inciting an argument or flame-war"

Let's just move on and hope that this lessens.. it has been in fact a week full of bashing. I totally agree with you on that..

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Not everyone's opinions stink just some of em might stink to some people..I'm gonna have to agree with Amoud though..Everyone certainly has em!

it wasn't you who started the qatar bashing
i was enraged when i read some comments about that poor kid who was killed in the UK,
I never cared about bashing Qatar or Qataris, if you can read my profile i am a member since 2 years and i regularly read this site but i don't participate much
but it all changed when i read some of the hateful and sarcastic comments in that thread
it was not the time or the place
we ( my family ) are an acquaintance of the kids family (Qatar is small everybody knows everybody here) they are really devastated, i can't even describe his mother

Pros and cons are every where. So stop complaining all you could see is just one week bashing on QL and not years of performance or How Qatar is getting advanced or growing.
Should have posted something better than that to get more admiration.
 

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For all the whining and crying all the Expat's do .. They should realise that there's no way they can have this lifestyle back home.. and make this kind of money.. The place is beautiful, peaceful and calm... As far as driving goes: Its people from all nationalities who drive like crazy Myself included !! The ones who keep cursing n saying i dont know why i'm here should just pack up and get the hell out... Coz its not like anyone's gonna miss u...

Doha is Home to so many of us now more than our own countries.. I think we should treat it like that and not act like some stupid tourists...

I have read so much negative stuff about Qatar lately... Some of it true but some of it going to the extreme... People usually thinking of moving out here or working here check out QL and end up getting a very bad impression about Qatar and Qatari's it's not right...

JaneyJaney - He isnt a troll... he is posting somthing that should be raised for discussion... Even if it leads to arguements if its somthing he feels strongly about then he should post it...

Samya.. Okay. My apologies.

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Sweety theres no need to apologise... your free to say what u think and we are free to agree or disagree... All part of the game i just didnt think it was fair u calling him a troll coz alot of people feel the same way he does... :)

if you don't have anything good to say then SHUT UP

what an attitude great
at one side one is showing patriotism
and other side one is pissing around members.

Well wont blame you gensis.
 

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Or Um Khamas will back hand u...

I think there are now more threads highlighting the Qatar-bashing threads than there are threads bashing Qatar.

Exactly my point Amoud. If you just let it be and ignored no one would notice the thread and instead make a big deal of a thread abt Qatar bashing.

I dream of a better tomorrow where Chickens can cross the Road without having their motives questioned - Unknown

OH JUST GIVE ME A BREAK, you make me laugh
When you were writing your hateful comments about Qataris, no one had aaaaaaaaany bad impression about Qataris, really ???? (oh noooo god forbid)
you were just CRITICIZING in CONSTRUCTIVE MANNER...
Good Girl
oh at last i've seen an honest expat girl......and here i thought they were extinct
you are all 2 faced

I don't know why i'm pissed. Although i'm in Paris.
Well to be honest i'm stressed & cranky. I tay all day long at the conference & at night i try to catch as much as i can a glimpse from the city.
Why don't we bash the french ;)
They have the most beautiful city in the world, divine cuisine, the best wine & all the culture. Yet they can't stop complaining. Last night i had to set through 3 hours of French whining of how corrupt their government is over dinner.

Doctora, read my posts, none of them were "Qatari" bashing, they were police bashing for having double standard.

If you want to go further abot bashing and racism you have made some of the nastiest comments I have seen on the post... which I didnt expect from a woman with your education.

see see... there was a thread abt hating Canadians and another one abt Keralites and another one abt Indians. There is at least 2 Philipino bashing threads every week.. none of these threads had a "root cause analysis" thread afterwards... everyone said what they want in the thread and the Canadian and Mallu threads ended up being good fun. Now why is it that when there is a Qatar bashing thread everyone has to make such a big deal abt it?

I dream of a better tomorrow where Chickens can cross the Road without having their motives questioned - Unknown

Exactly genesis - you've seen yourself that people in France moan about France, so why is people in Qatar moaning about Qatar a problem. That's what people do. It's not worth starting a thread about, is it? It only draws attention to the thing you're trying to stop.

You are only focussing on the people who contribute to threads criticizing Qatar and Qataris and not on the vast majority who do not contribute to those threads. I for one do not criticize Qatar much because I like living here and I like Qataris. I work for a Qatari company and do business with Qataris. Therefore, I know Qataris better than the majority of expatriates who have little or no dealings with them.

However, as much as I like Qatar and Qataris I do think that many Qataris are crap drivers. I have been here for two years now and have been Qatarized. I am now also a crap driver.

Just call me Tigasin. That's what I'm talking about

I disagree with you on this point
Genesis said FRENCH complaining about FRENCH
who told you that we Qataris don't complain about Qatar and other Qataris???
the problem is that people in here, who have an unfortunate incidents with Qataris, start whine about it....
have you read our newspapers (arabic) have you watched our talk shows
have you been socializing with other Qataris
i doubt it
some of you might but most of you base their opinions about that brief incident

So what, you think ex-pats in France don't have anything to moan about? Obviously you'll get more ex-pats moaning about Qatar because there are so many ex-pats here. But I've seen comments on QL from Qataris talking about the short-comings of their country as well. They realise it isn't perfect.

If someone has a incident with a Qatari then why shouldn't they post it here. There are plenty of people who have incidents with Filipino service staff or Indian work men and post about it here as well.

I'll be honest and say I wish people didn't b!tch and moan so much on here, it gets boring after a while. But I can see why they do it and I don't think it's worth starting whole new threads to moan about those threads. As I said, engage in conversation. Plenty of others are successful with that tact.

If someone has a incident with a Qatari then why shouldn't they post it here. There are plenty of people who have incidents with Filipino service staff or Indian work men and post about it here as well.

could you provide me with the links of those filipino or indian thread please
If a Qatari complained or wrote anything about you expatriates, he will be viewed as racist and reinforcing peoples perceptions about Qataris.
how double faced

AMOUD you are full of crap,you make a thread with the title "why people have a bad impression of Qataris" or some ignorant crap like that and then go on to provide an example of some lame incident that had occurred to you that somehow should be used as a way to justify this bad impression of Qataris. That is NOT constructive criticism. Only a narrow minded person would view an entire nationality negatively because of something as lame as that.

Not only that, but you try and compare your ignorant thread with that made of Canadians in jest, and asking why people are all worked up yet you ignore all the other expatriates who get all worked up when arguing with 7essab. You claim because we argue back with you then there must be truth to what all the other ignorant trash were saying, using your logic there must be a lot of truth to what 7essab was saying about the West being entirely racist and corrupt because of how all the other expatriates were on him after he made those comments.

When we tell you to leave Qatar we aren't reinforcing any preconceived notions. Once racist trash usually will always be racist trash,and that is why they have preconceived notions in the first place. Besides since it would make your kind happier to be back home and we Qataris are sick of leeches, it's a win win situation if you leave for the both of us.

What a sweeping generalisation to make Doctora. We're all double faced and would accuse a complaining Qatari of being racist would we? I'd personally welcome a discussion about the short comings of expatriates in Qatar. There are certainly plenty to choose from.

Well it seems pointless continuing our discussion if your view of things is so black and white, and if your observations of this web site over the past two years have been so blinkered that you've only seen the Qatar bashing threads.

You buying?

Actually, thinking about it I don't know if I could be seen out with a Maroon 5 fan ;-)

as Genesis Posted in a previous post and his post was was ignored as ususal (hmmmm double standards???)
for all you expatriates, i guess you should look at MOHAMMED CARTOONS on Alraya newspaper (online) to know that we do CRITICIZE and make fun of ourselves
http://www.raya.com/

doctora- Yep. They repeat the same comments on how Qataris can't take a little humor thrown their way, yet examples are shown to them but they conveniently ignore it. You know why? Because it goes against their interest of making more ignorant remarks about Qataris and then claiming it was a 'joke'. As lame as it sounds I think some of these losers get off bashing Qataris from day on end, it's about time they packed and leave, but NO! Don't dare say something like that or you are proving the original racist beliefs they already held about us.

Hey, I tried to change it into Filipino bashing. :P

It's funny, I complain there's to much West bashing and Islamic stuff on this forum.

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are you reading my mind?? I'm translating some of it right now

Hmmm, I think Qatari bashing should be its own forum.

We could also add (and I intentionally categorize it this was): Indian Subcontinent Bashing
Philipino Bashing
Westerners Bashing (Yes, this includes Australians, don't ask why)
Arab Bashing
All Others Bashing

Well I donno Doctora if an educated(assuming u r a doctor) person like u can generalize and say that we're all 2 faced in a fit of rage over a generalization over a public forum then how can u expect normal uneducated people not to generalize???

I dream of a better tomorrow where Chickens can cross the Road without having their motives questioned - Unknown

I come back after summer to encounter this pile of over sensitive hogwash.
Take it or leave it, comment on, make your point, hurl abuse if you must - it all reflects back as to which sort of character you are.
But to try and tell people what they can or can not write on an INTERNET FORUM sends back the image of a control freak, police state loving, fascist.
Some people self-censor, others don't; it's not your job to be the 'Censor-general'.

Remember. I may not like what you say but I'll fight to the death for your RIGHT to say it.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."

Dear Doctora and all Qataris in QL,

I am so sorry for you and for those qataris that are nice people.
It's just sometimes, people generalize with no intention to ofend a population...
one thing we all have to admit, no matter the nationality, a lack of education associated with loads of wealth, tends not to produce respectful results...

All my unpleasant "encounters" have been while driving. There is a tendency here, to certain profiles to be agressive and abusive, when driving...

If Qataris are perceived as rude, wont it be good to debate this in schools and government policies, to see if its worth it to introduce corrective measures into society... likewise is done in some other countries i have lived in before.

To finish, our terrible mistake, is this tendency to generalize as everywhere is possible to encounter all sorts of people... the proportions some times leads to generalization... which might not be fare to the exceptions.

take good care of yourself,

ditto! I've been shown wonderful kindness and consideration from my Qatari hosts, keeping in mind I am a paid guest in their country. All my less than lovely experiences have been while driving including the Qatari lady who got out of her car at a stop light and threw a fit at the taxi driver who cut her off. This was followed by the light changing, her jumping back into her car and in her upset state backed into me. When the police arrived, she told them, and fortunately my arabic speaking colleague was in the car with me getting a ride to work that day, that she stopped at the light and I ran into her. Incredible huh? Fortunately, when I went to the police station, the police said my "witness" was credible and it wasn't my fault. I do wish folks would stop generalizing on here and to coin the already worn out phrase, "there are good and bad people in every country of the world".

Let's hijack this. Can you give me a potted version of what's been going on on QL over the past six weeks, warts and all? Especially the warts! Don't bash Qataris, just bash QL and the QLers!
Don't hold back!

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."

Definately nice to see adey back again!

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

They even deleted my post about Mr. Paul-bashing.

So, uhhh,...

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."

Qatari Donkey on the right Vs Darude Donkey on the left.

I hear St. Patrick was Qatari!"

Diamond...ahlan wa sahlan! How is our wonderful most prominent Qataria today? Hope all is well...please...can YOU tell "them" not all of "us" a barbaric savages??????

A sense of humour is just common sense dancing, sadly, common sense has left the building and is dancing somewhere else.
Alexa

Go away all you horrible expatriates. Don't you know that Qataris are perfect...we simply do no wrong. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly deranged and should immediately be deported.

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Maybe we oughta make a law about ousting Qataris in Qatar and turn it into an expatriatic state of Ker--, I mean Bri---, I mean Turk---, I mean Phi--, I mean Leba---, I mean....

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach