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51 * of $ 2,860 for drunk driving abroad . 46 According to the British ambassador, the former emir, Ahmad bin Ali, was suffering from a liver disease caused by excessive drinking . 47 Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs, also consumed alcohol . 48 But his brother, the ruler Khalifa, opposed alcohol . 49 His sons inherited this tendency . Abdul Aziz, the Qatari Minister of Finance and Petroleum, avoided alcohol . 50 Another son, Hamad, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, was described as 'neither a womanizer, drug taker, nor drunkard' . 51 When the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Qatar in 1986, they were to dine with Khalifa and Hamad at the Rayyan Palace . Prince Charles received no champagne due to the ban on alcohol . 52 restrictions for short time Following the 1979 attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, religious restrictions were tightened . Subjected to attacks on religious grounds from Iran, the small Arab sheikdoms of the Gulf tightened their restrictions on alcohol and western - like social behavior, in order to enhance their Islamic image . 53 In the same year, the Qatari government decided to cut alcohol sales to foreigners . 54 Contemporary international newspapers reported that alcohol was strictly forbidden and bottles were confiscated at the airport . Non - Muslim expatriates consumed alcohol only at home, and nightlife was virtually non - existent . 55 This agenda did not last long . Already by the end of 1980, one British diplomat reported : The mild trend towards Islamic revivalism which Inoticed here last year and the year before ( e . g . reduction of the liquor ration still available to senior members "Around the World : Qatar Sheik Fined for Drunk Driving", The Globe and Mail , 15 August 1986, p . A8 . 46 FCO 8 / 3002 ] D . G . Crawford to D . E . Tatham, 7 December 1977, 'Internal Affairs of Qatar' . [ 47 Morton, Masters of thePearl , p . 165 . 48 FCO 8 / 749 ] "Waiting for the Shaikh", Business Diary, The Times , Cutting dated : 10 July 1968 . See [ 49 also : Blandford, Oil Sheikhs, pp . 241 - 242 . FCO8 / 2294 ] "His Excellency Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Khalifa Al Thani, Minister of Finance and [ 50 Petroleum", 2 August 1974 . Andrew Killgore, Doha embassy, Qatar, to Department of State, 6 August 1979 . 51 "Royals Land in Oil - Rich Qatar", Sunday Mail, 16 November 1986 . 52 Michael C . Hudson, "Islam and Political Development", in ( ed . ) John L . Esposito, Islam and 53 Development : Religion and Sociopolitical Change ( Syracuse : Syracuse Univ . Pr . , 1980 ) , pp . 17 - 18 . Kathleen Bishtawi, "Qatar ," Middle East Annual Review, ( 1980 ) , p . 291 . 54 Mary Frings, "Businessman's Guide", Financial Times, 16 February 1982, p . 34 . See also : Paul Lewis, 55 "Oil Producers Try to Widen Bahrain Links", The New YorkTimes , 6 March 1983, p . 20 .
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