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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 25 January 2013 13 Rabial I 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5590 Price: QR2 Al Sada: Qatar Golf: Four committed share lead to safety in Qatar Business | 13 Sport | 19 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 OPINION A third of Qatari Mali: Caught between French, men rely on US interests he New TYo rk Times majlis for news reported on January 19 that the world should Survey on media usage held recall the Khalid Al Sayed words of the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOHA: More than a third of and an even smaller percentage late Libyan Qatari men surveyed about (3.2) of the interviewees said they leader Muammar Gaddafi media usage habits said they listened to radio. — during the days of upris- relied on their ‘majlis’ (the Local newspapers were read by ing against him — that the outer portion of a traditional 55.7 percent of the respondents. downfall of his regime would Qatari home where guests, At least 25.4 percent respond- bring chaos and terrorism including relatives, friends, ents said they used both Arabic into Libya. colleagues and neighbours are and English-language media, The world now remem- entertained) to get day-to-day while the remaining said they bers Colonel Gaddafi’s words information and news. used only Arabic media. as a crisis rages in Mali, pit- A vast majority of Qatari The social media are emerg- ting French forces against women (who have no access to ing as important modes of social Islamists controlling large the ‘majlis’), on the contrary, interaction, with many of those parts of this African country. said they relied on the media, interviewed saying they used the The crisis in Mali is a natural particularly television, to keep media for chatting with friends Tear gas fired by riot police at protesters fills a street during clashes after demonstrators removed a concrete outcome of the Arab Spring abreast with what was going on and relatives. barrier at Qasr Al Aini Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo, yesterday. in the Middle East and it has in the country, region and the A total of 263 Qataris were huge consequences for other rest of the world. covered by the survey (132 men North African countries. The survey on how peo- and 131 women), while the Arab International strategies, ple access information, with a expatriates covered numbered 262 Police, youth clash on eve of relations and plans for this sample of 525 people, includ- (126 men and 136 women). The region will have to change as ing Qatari men and women and ages of those surveyed varied a result. Arab expatriates, was conducted between 15 years and more than After the overthrow of by the Social Rehabilitation 50 years. The majority of respond- Egypt revolution anniversary Gaddafi, the Tuaregs, some Centre. ents were aged between 20 and 29 of whom used to work in the Some 62 percent of the Qatari years or above 40. CAIRO: Police clashed with of the (Supreme) Guide” of the them,” said Ahmed Maher, Libyan army, laid their hands women surveyed said they were Arab expatriates (65.6 percent protesters here yesterday, eve powerful Muslim Brotherhood, founder of the April 6 — a group on a huge cache of weapons dependent on the media to know of them) were found to rely more of the second anniversary of the from whose ranks Mursi was that helped ignite the uprising by stored in the Libyan ruler’s of daily news and happenings, on media to access information, uprising that overthrew Hosni elected last June. Some demon- using social media to organise. weapon warehouses. Details while 38 percent of Qatari men while this percentage was just Mubarak, as they tried to dis- strators hurled rocks at riot police The National Salvation Front, of these weapons were regis- said they got such information 38 for Qatari men and women mantle a security barrier and positioned a few dozen metres on the largest opposition bloc, has tered with army units under from their ‘majlis’. respondents. called for the fall of Islamist the other side of the wall, who called for rallies “in all the Tahrir the Colonel. Television was the most Barely 2.9 percent of the inter- President Mohammed Mursi, responded with tear gas grenades. Squares of the country”. Heavily armed, the Tuaregs popular medium for the major- viewees said they relied on friends witnesses said. Mursi’s opponents plan Authorities have vowed to managed to spread their ity of respondents. Some 48.2 for information. A few dozen men and youth to march to Tahrir Square keep security forces out of Tahrir influence in northern Mali, percent said they watched TV, The Social Rehabilitation tried to dismantle the wall of today to vent anger at the new Square to decrease the risk of where local tribes became four hours a day on average, to Centre said the aim of the survey concrete blocks that blocked a Islamist leader and his Muslim confrontations, but said police loyal to them due to differ- keep themselves abreast with was to know which was the most street leading to Tahrir Square, Brotherhood backers, whom they would be in the surrounding areas ences of opinion with the rad- the latest news. popular media in Qatar and how focal point of demonstrations that accuse of betraying the goals of to arrest troublemakers. ical group, namely Al-Qaeda News channels were popular much time people spent learning broke out on January 25, 2010, the January 25 revolution that The Brotherhood has said it will in Maghreb. with 20 percent of the respond- about news and events. and led to Mubarak’s resignation galvanised Egyptians in a display not send its supporters to Tahrir The Malian army could not ents, while ‘mixed’ channels were Most of the respondents were 18 days later. of national unity that has not Square today — a decision that at check the advance of Tuaregs watched by 18.4 percent. In the from Doha (62.7 percent) and The walls were erected last been seen since. least limits the scope for more of and the spread of their influ- third spot were religious channels Al Rayyan (27.6 percent). The year to protect numerous build- “We don’t see it as a celebra- the unrest. Two years on, Egypt is ence in the north of the (16.5 percent). surveyors said non-Arabic- ings housing government and tion. This will be a new revolu- struggling with a deep economic country, being ill-prepared Some 16.2 percent said the speaking expatriates were left security service offices in the area. tionary wave that will show the crisis caused by political turbu- for such a job. The Tuaregs Internet was their main source out of the sample since they “Down with Mohammed Brotherhood that they are not lence which has continued una- swiftly managed to declare of information, while only 7.5 per- didn’t know Arabic. Mursi,” some demonstrators alone — that there are other bated since the election of a new their independent state in cent said they read newspapers, THE PENINSULA shouted. “Down with the power forces that can stand against president. AGENCIES this terrain. Continued on page 2 Pro-govt candidates win in Jordan Beggars back on streets, without fear DOHA: The beggar menace is on generosity of some of them. Some of are professional beggars. In addition, the rise in the country, with alms- the women show medical reports and they use taxis to go to far-flung places. seekers getting bolder and venturing doctors’ prescriptions while begging, No one has any estimate of their into newer areas to carry on with the while others even produce x-ray films numbers, but community sources say illegal practice, little fearful of law to win sympathy, Al Sharq reported more of them are visible now. enforcement officials. yesterday. Most of the beggars enter the coun- They were earlier restricted to beg- Most of the women beggars belong to try on visit visas and prefer to stay in ging in front of mosques, mostly after Arab countries and seem to be profes- old and low-rent houses, and some even Friday prayers, or got hold of people in sional alms-seekers because no expatri- come with small children to win the parking lots near shopping complexes. ate living in Qatar for long would allow sympathy of their patrons. But now the beggars are even enter- his family members (wives and daugh- People have been demanding that ing offices and knocking at the doors ters) to beg. the authorities concerned curb this of homes. The women position themselves in illegal practice and take action Most of the beggars are veiled crowded public places in an orderly against those providing visas to women who mainly target cash-rich fashion at specific times, which is an potential beggars. Qatari citizens and capitalise on the indicator that they are not needy but THE PENINSULA Teacher punished over offensive question paper Syria calls ‘million man prayers’ today DOHA: The Supreme Education detect the objectionable matter. Council (SEC) has taken punitive It was not mentioned what type of action DAMASCUS: Syrian authori- action against a teacher of English was taken against the duo. ties have called for “million man language and a subject coordinator for Replying to comments posted by people prayers” at mosques today to Ahmed Safadi, who won a seat in parliamentary elections, celebrates with his supporters including objectionable references in a on social networking sites, the SEC said its appeal for the re-establishment of in Amman, yestyerday.