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Twitterati find humour in Saudi demands to Qatar

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Social media users have put forth their own counter demands to Saudi Arabia's demands for Qatar.

LAHORE (Saad Syed) - Social media users have put forth their own counter demands in wake of the list of demands issued by Saudi Arabia and its allies to Qatar.

On Friday, Saudi Arabia put out a 13-point list of demands which Qatar needed to fulfill if it desired to have the blockade imposed on it by its Gulf neighbours lifted. The demands included everything from cutting off ties with Iran, closing Turkish military bases, stopping funding to terrorists, shutting down media outlets like Al Jazeera and many more. The demands also included some not-so-feasible requests like paying reparations for losses caused by Qatar s foreign policy.

Considering how the fulfilling of many of these demands is not possible, and how they seem more like Saudi dictation to turn Qatar into its governorate, social media users took to Twitter and criticised the Saudi demands with humour. Their tweets implied how it seemed that the demands were coming from either an overprotective parent or a stubborn demanding child.

Here is a look at the tweets put out by people around the world who saw humour in the 13-point list given by Saudi Arabia. This is how they mocked the oil-rich kingdom on twitter:

One twitter user tweeted this before the demands actually came out, giving a long list that seemed more like your Sunday morning grocery shopping list than something that is a part of negotiations between two countries.

It seems Saudi royals aspire to be more like General Aladeen.

This twitter user implies that Saudi demands are more like a parent s rules for a child.

One can be sure this is the reaction that the Emir of Qatar had when he saw the demands. 

Saudi Arabia to Qatar: Please just bow down to us? Please?

This one aptly sums it up; the demands are impossible to be met in 10 days.

 

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