Qatar Bashing

Je ne compreend pas ça

I don't understand this

Não compreendo nada

No entiendo

No capicho niente

Ich nich sprechen deutsch :)

Habibi Azizi

:D

Not all means the same

Only God Can Judge Me

الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer

أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ

Good thing someone else said it.

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Mr. Q's Blog - A Qatari's view on Qatar.

Oooo, blush, are you giving out compliments?

P.S. All Welsh are idiots.

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Come on then, bring on the Wales bashing!

And you wouldn't be so nasty if you knew what I'd said ;0)

Oh, really useful...to about three and a half people and five talking sheep.

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What are you on about, I'm fluent in Welsh;

llllyntttylllachy llanstisalgog gogogoch baaaaaaaaa

See?

'scuse me while I wipe the spit from my keyboard.

Yes, Tall, you should be ashamed...you're just scraping by with your command of your own language. Please try harder.

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Oi! Fancy multi-linguist show-offs! This is an English language forum. It's bad enough you put us to shame with your English, which isn't even your first language.

Bleu, mais bien sur, vous avez raison. J'ai trompe. Je m'excuse.

I beg you, no more rants ;)

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I'm living in Dubai. You are more than welcome to pop in if you are in the area! :-)

Where are you now?

"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."

Mi Niña, Please, spare me five minutes of your perfect timing. You could deport some of your deranged attitude, inside My Confession Booth at any moment. Just leave those infidels that are not appreciative at all, alone.

I hear St. Patrick was an Englishman!"

diamond, Sorry for the rant, but "Parisians are perfect mes ami" is plain wrong, it should be "Les parisiens sont parfaits, mes amis".

A sense of hamour is just common sense swimming, sadly, common sense has left the building and is swimming somewhere else.

Welcome back

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

Go away all you horrible expats. 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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Qatari Donkey on the right Vs Darude Donkey on the left.

I hear St. Patrick was Qatari!"

Ah diamond. A breath of fresh air as always.

Hiya!

I'll send you a vid of my perfect summer moment.

"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."

Adey, our old friend! Welcome back! Hope your summer went well.

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"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."

Are you kidding me? The French are world class whiners. They have been known to whine for days about an egg not being cooked properly. And don;t get me started on Parisians...they whine about everyone else on France all the time and adopt the most superior attitude. Basically if you're not Parisian, you're just not cutting it ;) Parisians are perfect mes ami...at least thaté what they'd all have us think.

Aaaw, don;t go spoiling QL...if there's not a Qatar(i) bashing thread every little while, something's definitely wrong ;)

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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

just a suggestion: have a look at this thread (plague of the racist leeche on Qatar and QL)

Definately nice to see adey back again!

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

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."

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".

because 'they heard most bashing only in QL forums'. In other countries, there are these 'undying rallies,protest,here & there'.Even if we call some post bashing or criticizing Qataris, it should be viewed as eye an opener. There are far more worst happening in other countries. On the lighter side,I've posted my comment before on how's my assessment of Qatar, I recalled I said: "So far Qatar is generally peaceful". How's that?

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,

Love Qatar Bashing, it's my fav sport! If this forum was just posts about how much we love Qatar it would be pretty boring.

We have the right to moan & complain and Qatari’s have the right to defend their country...end of!

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."

bleu, it's filipino not philipino.

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

no i don't agree with you, it should be called Qatar hating

because Good remarks get swallowed up in the sea of hateful, non constructive comments...

don't say (Qataris blah blah blah instead say Ignorant uneducated person did this blah blah blah)

if you (not you in particular but generally) are going to say Qataris did this and Qataris did that, it shows who the real racist here.

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

Doctora the site is exactly what it is "Qatar Living" and it reflects what most expats feel abt Qatar. Well they are talking abt actual experiences in Qatar, I'm sure noone is making things up just to bash em Qataris. Its just what they feel and abt their experiences in Qatar and also other nationalities. There are good and Bad experiences. You cant always tell people to write only the good part can u now?

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

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

Eish!!!! I had a Plato bashing on of these days but i'm still here talking to everybody and didn't got angry reason should always prevail over heart.

Good idea Labda, how many Kenyans are needed to chang a lamp?

4, 1 to hold and 3 to rotate light bulb ;)

Any other nation volunteering to be bashed beside Qatar Kenya and France?

Doctore: is there an english version of those jokes? I was at page and all was in arabic.

Only God Can Judge Me

الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي

I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer

أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ

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.

Visit www.qatarhappening.com

Yup, we r bad, boOooo }=D~

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Thanks Qatar!!

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.

said 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.

What have you expected??? kiss you on your head and tell you yes we are ignorant pigs just because we are qataris, then you will consider me an educated and polite person ????? when all you did was vomit more hateful comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as Genesis Posted in a previous post and his post was was ignored as ususal (hmmmm double standards???)

for all you expats, 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/

Why??

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You buying?

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

Tallg... ready for a pint then?

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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.

All are welcome to bash Kenyans!!!

I'll take all of you on, ANY DAY....lol....

C'mon guys this back and forth bashing is ridiculous. We are divided enough as it is in the "real" world where Qataris and expats dont really mix for the most part(due to different cultures, blah blah). And yes yes there are plenty of exceptions. Read it again "FOR THE MOST PART" (thats for the clever person who wants to jump me, hehe).

Question: Do we really need to be divided on QL as well?

"Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day." Melody Beattie

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 expats 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 expats 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.

Well if you knew the french, you'd know that they criticizes the country & goverment. but never the people. With all the democracy in France. Never will a frenchmen speak about the Algerie war. Indochine gave justice to the Vietnamese, yet till this day not a single French movie talk about what happened in algerie.

Anyway, this thread is not about France.

(please don't turn this thread into Expat bashing)

you are very polite person .....

I salute you .....

but i'm sorry to say You are a hypocrite your self

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 expats, he will be viewed as racist and reinforcing peoples perceptions about Qataris.

how double faced

on a lighter note..it's just Qatar's unlucky week... few months back, it was all Filipino Bashing.. but no one cares, really.. it will come around, you'll see..

[img_assist|nid=12867|link=none|align=left|width=|height=0]Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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.

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

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 expats 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

because it's been going on for the last 2 years

and because this site is called if i'm not mistaken (Qatar Living)

any one who want to know anything about Qatar will be coming here and reading the most hateful remarks i've ever read (which didn't change for the past 2 years )

any one who wants to know about (Canada or Kerala Or India) will not search in a site called ( Qatar living)

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.

I tried to engage in conversations, i tried to give an alternative view

but all my comments were ignored (sadly)

i became aggressive, that's when everybody started giving his opinion

Well i'm fed up with this hypocrisy

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

please don't turn this thread into Expat bashing

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.

Janeyjanye..Apologies accpeted butl as SamyaUK said no need to aplogise as I will be the last person to be offended on this virtual world..

my thoughts R-7..:)

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Anyone Can Die.

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.

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

Go to any country in the world and you'll find people "bashing" it. It's human nature. Sorry to disappoint you but Qatar isn't a special case.

People are always more likely to talk about bad things than good things. Rather than moaning about people moaning, why not engage them in conversation and offer them a alternative view. Some of the most interesting posts on QL are from the likes of diamond and amnesia when they offer a different take on a negative view of Qatar.

Be pro-active.

What he is saying is true, everytime i log on QL now there is either a thread about a dumb joke, or a thread about a Qatari/Qatar... Not much positive stuff is being said...

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

Thats what I have been saying all day. All the "idiots" and "shut ups" and "dont like it leave" is only reinforcing peoples preconceived ideas.

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

LOL yeah I should call her

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

Or Um Khamas will back hand u...

Doctora yeah right like what u just said now made a lot of sense. Take a hike dudette

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

genesis ... you really are p1ssed ... :-) I know DG, amnesia ... and i know you (although i never met you). And so far you guys are polite and kind.

xxx

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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yeah like ur not adding to the bashing by this new thread abt Qatar bashing!!! What brains!!!

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

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... :)

Genesis,

I totally agree with u. They r staying in Qatar and earning money from Qatar and want to criticize Qatari’s. This is not fair. Those who don’t like Qatar, lets them leave Qatar.

Last week I saw, most of them simply chatting in threads.

Samya.. Okay. My apologies.

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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...

Action Speaks Louder Than Words... ask them not to shout while talking face to face. or not to shout if there's a group conversation...

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...

Doctora the death of the boy is tragic to say the least, but trust me it is not worth all this, and getting your blood pressure up. It will change nothing, and as you said some people are stupid. Being outraged by some comments is normal, and trust me I also have gotten it numerous times but face to face. Lifes too short to let the small stuff get you so mad (and before you go beserk when I say small stuff I mean the piddly comments, not the boys death)

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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Amoud.. lol. That's why I don't want to stress anyone any longer hence, I'll just be an observant for a while. ;)

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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

I was being polite and replaced A hole with nose... lol

It is so dumb to get so upset over posts.

"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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I am a bad driver :)

It was my post that sparked all this, and to be honest it wasnt the intention. I have read a million different posts on here Qatar bashing, and I shared an incident that happened and named it "WHY people get a bad impression". I was in no way bashing but the thread took off in a way it was never intended. I kept posting this is not the intention of the post and it got to bashing local doctors, their driving etc. My only complaint was the double standard rules, which is not the general populations fault.

Remember kids, opinions are like noses, everyones got one.

... to label Qatari's as bad drivers. It's not JUST them ;o)

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Baldrick - Qatar's answer to Google ;o)

troll???????

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Troll.

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it has been really a week full of "Qatar Bashing" and Hatered threads...

I am also sick of it and never posted in those threads.

I spent almost all my life in Qatar very thankfully to Allah and my host..Qatar and its citzens.

I love Qatar and consider it as dear as my Home country.

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