From ngourlay at gmail.com  Sun Jan  7 00:25:45 2007
From: ngourlay at gmail.com (Nigel Gourlay)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 11:25:45 +0300
Subject: [Qatar-pm] membership drive
Message-ID: <2379a820701070025p5c0fd90sc33bbb6393b445b2@mail.gmail.com>

Mohamed. Thanks for joining the group. Good to see some activity at last.

--nigel

From ngourlay at gmail.com  Tue Jan 30 21:58:06 2007
From: ngourlay at gmail.com (Nigel Gourlay)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:58:06 +0300
Subject: [Qatar-pm] Fwd: Qatar Perl Mongers
In-Reply-To: <20070129113913.101d1c8hog8sk8oo@webmail.mag-sol.com>
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	<20070129113913.101d1c8hog8sk8oo@webmail.mag-sol.com>
Message-ID: <2379a820701302158i3d332fb4u4869e5a4f782c05e@mail.gmail.com>

Very odd reply from a well--known perl advocate (who will remain
nameless). If he'd never been out of his own country, I could believe
he was just a bit scared of travelling to the gulf, but he's a
cosmopolitan liberal guy, who should know better.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Quoting Nigel Gourlay:
> If I could arrange sponsorship to cover your travel, would you be
> interested in speaking to Qatar.pm? I have a spare bed in my house,
> and Qatar is an ideal country to visit if you'd like to see the Middle
> East, but want to avoid the shooting :)

Oops, I meant to reply to this mail ages ago. Sorry about that.

It's a kind offer, but I don't want to support a muslim country (or
any other country run by religion) by visiting it. I realise it's not
a particularly strict muslim country, but I'd still feel very
uncomfortable going there.

So I'm going to have to turn down your invitation. Sorry about that too.

Cheers,