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The skinny: Near Doha’s international airport, Al Thumama’s design was inspired by the traditional Taqiyah, a short, woven cap of the kind Muslims believe was worn by the prophet Muhammad.

Driving his scooter through after Friday prayers, a friendly Muslim man wearing white robes and a taqiyah cap seems at peace with his fate.

“Auckland,” the men in taqiyah, or skullcaps, responded.

Valiullin, who has a white tufted goatee and wears a velvet-blue taqiyah, shakes his head when he recalls the arrests.

His detractors, he went on, consider him adept at “taqiyah,” an Arabic word for dissimulation to protect oneself or the Islamic faith, and think he has a “far more obscure hidden agenda.”