Qatari nationality by birth.
I have met many Jordanians/Palestinians that were born in Qatar, have never been to Jordan or Palestine. Some have parents that have worked and lived in Qatar all their lives. Why are these people who have contributed to the country not allocated Qatari citizenship. I can understand that most expats send most of their wealth home but some of these guys consider Qatar to be their home country and spend their money here. I would like to hear the Qatari perspective.
Bleu, let's imagine that u were born in UK, from Qatari parents, that were also living in UK since their childhood, and u never visited Qatar in ur life, nor did ur parents for several good years, for fear of oppression. Wouldn't u wear like british, talk like british, have their mentality and all the package that comes with it??? Ur being very unfair here, I wish u could imagine urself in their situation and u would understand better...I am not palestinian, don't get me wrong, but I've always symphatised with them, it's such a shame that muslim countries let this happen...
How many palestinians born in Qatar are there?? I'm sure not so many, a lot of them are spread around the world, many have nationalities from the States or European countries. I don't think that giving them passport would "alter" ur "blue royal blood" mashallah...
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PM: I said the sentence about the dream sarcastically (even though it's true). I've seen many palestinians wear Qatari Clothes,and I notice that the youth speak more Qatari than Palestenian (even among themselves).
I also know that giving the palestinians the nationality of wherever they're at would solve a huge problem for Israel.
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I don't see the Bedouins who lived all their life in Saudi entitled to the Qatari nationality (I'm not comparing them to the others - I'm saying nobody should get the nationality).
Qataris are a minority in their own country, that's a fact, but giving the nationality to others does not solve any of our problems (and may create some). It would make life easier for the people getting the Qatari nationality.
Naturalization is not the solution for Qatarization, why don't we just make the 1.6 million people Qataris and say we're at 100%.
there are many Palestinian, Jordanian & recently Iraqis who hold the Qatari nationality (HALLO, Al-Salam). In my opinion, Qatari Citizenship laws needs adjustments. Taking in Consideration the growth & plans for Qatarization, i don't see the Bedouins who lived all their life in Saudi more entitled to the Qatari nationality than the people who lived all their lives here & hold no passports(we call them in local dialect bedoon).
PM, ur making so much sense and Bleu is so full of it!!!! National identity my ... inner self... :d Giving passports to palestinians would show that they are good muslims who help other muslims in need,,, the very basics of islam... but qataris don't want to be high in the eyes of God, they want to be rare and unique. What if it were THEM in need and no other muslim states would try to help them?? Who could help them then??? The USA??
Anyway most of them have the exact mentality and behaviour of the one that was nothing and saw himself something over the night...SAD...
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We're around 220,000 out of 1.6 million.
200,000? Or is that the number living in Qatar.
Whatever the number is, if I was one of so few I probably wouldn't want to invite others to become ONE OF US either!
Quite an elite group, I'd say ...
Nice position to be in too.
its not only for the palestinians... all expats here can not be a qatari citizen... but its not that qatari government dont want to share the benifits that the locals are enjoying to other nationalities.... the local (qatari) population maybe only 20% or lesser to the total inhabitants of ths small country, then imagine this, if qatari govt. will give ctizenship to long staying expats, then we have another indian state here (smile, its a joke).. or, ok, another china...
PM, I know they prefer staying here. But they don't have the right to become Qataris just by being here for a long time ... even if you dress, walk and talk like a Qatari.
This is not a light topic to be discussed here ... It's an issue of national identity and sovereignty.
Sorry PM ....my bad
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PM is correct, they are not entirely stateless but I do know that they are restricted to travel on Palestinian passports, we sponsored some friends to come to OZ He was on a restricted Palestinian passport and she was Egyptian and Luckly the first two children were also on Egyptian passports, he was just feed up of not being able to travel outside the M.E., but now they have done there time and are now proud to call Australia home and proud to have their Aussie Passports...
"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.
Are you saying that a person who is born in Qatar (of parents who have lived here for years and years) is a stateless person with no passport?
Or is it just if you are born to Palestinian parents who have lived here for decades .....
Sorry if I'm being a bit slow, here.
Nobody should be given Qatari nationality.
If we give it to the Palestinians, then we are killing their dream of going back home, in a few generations, they will forget.
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is a small country...
In this modern world, internet is the great equalizer.
IMHO, anyone, regardless of their origin who has committed their whole life to this country and have embraced the language and culture should be granted full citizenship status. With specific reference to the people I have met, they do not have proper passports and cannot leave Qatar for fear of not being allowed into any country.
I think all Palestinians who were born here should be given Qatari nationality, because they don't have a country, they were forced to leave their houses by war and poverty.
Too bad I'm not the one to tell...
Ah, I'm not Qatari, just the post was too tempting...
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The Qatari perspective is that they are from Jordan or Palestine. Why is that so hard to get your head around?
Would you ask the same question of Indian or Filipinos who are born here and have never visited India or the Phillipines?