Not That There's Anything Oxymoronic About That

Shill for all things Islamic Harpoon Siddiqui waxes rhapsodic about how Arab art and culture are blossoming in oily emirate Qatar, "a curiously democratic absolute monarchy." (Unmentioned in the gush about the "renaissance" and the fabulous architecture is the reality that this curiously democratic absolute monarchy practises sharia law, which can be problematic for kafirs doing business there.)