Qatari

Only about ten percent of Qatar’s population is actually native Qatari; the rest being comprised of expatriates, mostly business people and oil magnates, etc. As an exclave of neighboring Saudi Arabia, sharia law is largely intact yet loosely enforced among the constituents - many westerners don’t take kindly to threat of having their hand cut off for stealing someone else’s oil. Qatar even has giant alien scorpion robots…oh sorry, wait, I’m getting a message that was just CGI in ‘Transformers’. Nevertheless, Qatar is a unique place - a desert peninsula surrounded by water with a very wealthy population that doesn’t play by the westerners’ rules (well, for the most part, except when it comes to striking oil and striking deals). The average Qatari is far wealthier than the average Middle Eastern dweller, and on the global scale comparable to large industrialized nations, and that is saying something (or at least their GDP per capita is higher). I do think that it is true that is hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven…hard, but certainly not impossible. The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians that when they were called into the kingdom of God that “Not many of [them] were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.” (1 Cor. 1:26). It is noteful and wonderful that it does not say “NONE of you were…”; rather, it says “not many…”. No, not many indeed. But some!