"Maybe Reem will get her way and kick out all us infidels, so you can listen to your qatari drums and Nancy rip-offs ;) "

I love our traditional drums.. sorry you don't..
but really I hate nancy and the likes of her.. though I love Fayrooz...:)

"It must be so hard to feel your control over your tiny peninsula is slipping from your grasp and you may have no choice but to mix with the outside world :P"

What a really precious peninsula that we have.. I just love it and everything it makes it.. good and bad!
and NO it's not hard really... just being patient and believe me.. there will be a day when all of us Qataris will have a say..

We are still young politically.. less than 40 years old of independence in total so we need time to grow up.. and not to be a copycat.. but to have something that fits us as a unique and different society..

I don't guess all other countries who are more than hundereds of years old got their citizens to paticipate in politics except for the last 100 years.. right?
just go back like 60-80 years.. and see how the politics were in the US and Europe ( like the UK, Germany, Italy, France..etc.)!!

So we are walking the right way.. and we will get there..
God's willing..