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With the way the Qatari regime has been ruling the country, it comes as no shock to see news about human related atrocities coming out everyday. But things have gone beyond that as now even the election practices are being targeted by the powerful to spread racism, regional divide and more. The elections are scheduled for October and just ahead of the administrative process, The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has ratified an electoral law. This electoral law is directed to the first legislative elections in the country. With  the changes, anyone whose original nationality is Qatari and is 18 years of age and above shall have the right to elect members of the Shoura Council. Till there, one would assume that this is a positive development but that's not the case. The test however is not the first three lines of the law but the issue seems to be with the latter part that states that those who have acquired Qatari nationality will not be able to be included here....

  Aisha Al-Qahtani, a Qatari resident who escaped her country for a better and a safer life in Britain sums up her native land’s treatment towards women in a line - “To be a woman in Qatar is criminal ’. Her statement is not hard to believe especially after how Qatar treated various female passengers forcing them for intimate medical check-up without their consent to find out who was the mother of an abandoned child found in the airport bin. The issue caused global outrage exposing Doha’s insensitive dealing of the matter. But what surprised many was Qatar’s lack of regret for its actions.   Today marked two months to the episode of Qatari barbarity, which left many female passengers shaken, who were travelling on Qatar airways flight 908 to Sydney on October 2. Despite “grossly disturbing” and “ offensive” treatment of women, Qatar did not reach out to the victims who went through the “sexual assault” to offer them an apology, let alone the compensation. Besides, the coun...