I’ve never visited Qatar but I have spent some time in Dubai.Those small nations...the UAE,Qatar,Bahrain,etc...are incredibly wealthy and reasonably peaceful,at least by Arab standards.One might think that cash would trump ideology.
One would be wrong. Money can’t buy love, and money don’t buy fanaticism.
‘A man does not have himself killed for a halfpence a day of for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul inorder to electrify him.’
-Napoleon Bonaparte
BUT, money can buy you apologists... Brookings, Harvard, Georgetown, Cornell, etc.