Sheikh Hamad bin Khaifa Al Thani made Qatar safe by making it relevant. [originally published with Al Jazeera] For most of its modern history, Qatar was a place that things happened to. It was a quiet peninsula prized for its energy resources and consulted about little, living on the margins of larger ambitions. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who died in Doha on Sunday at the age of 74, refused that inheritance. And despite what many commentaries will reduce his legacy to