as I said It's just what I can pieced together from people who have been here for awhile. Although the part about it being The European club and it being one of the only places you could get a drink before the inception of major hotels her is pretty much as accurate as far as I can find out....
People forget (and again this is all here say from people that have been here awhile)You used to be able to once purchase pork and bring in alcohol into Qatar about 10 years back (again not really sure how long it's been since you've not been able to do this but apparently you could).

"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.