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Al Jazeera being funded by Qatari Government,
1) Do you feel your channel has the freedom to criticize local government?
2) Do you think democracy is something Qatari people look forward in the future?
3) What do you think Al Jazeera should do to promote democracy in Qatar?

ps:Qatar has an unelected(No voting rights to citizens), monarchic, emirate-type government. There are no democratic institutions or elections, and power is assumed on a hereditary basis.

Qatar impose capital punishment for activities which might disturb national security.

Al Jazeera has played a very important role in the "Arab uprising" and they are the face of common Arab. It's quite unfortunate they wanted freedom/democracy everywhere in the Muslim world except the country they based in.

Edit: Unfortunately he choose to ignore these questions and closed AMA, maybe he expected lot of questions on Libya and other countries.

Edit1: Some of the Qatar citizens commented below mentioning the fact people are happy in the kingdom with lot of freebies from government and high paying jobs. Perhaps they need to understand Democracy is not about free electricity, food or money. It's about the right of people to choose what they want, with choice of governance, Freedom to speak without fear, Equal rights to Women/LGBT, etc. Since the Arab is ruled by Kings/Dictators for decades together people have lost the notion of Democracy.

Because he has lots of ... in his name.

No he is not going to answer!, he eluded for last 1 hour without answering this question and now closed this AMA.

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Woody should probably fuck the guy who gave the idea to go to reddit for movie promotion.