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Qataris Say Criticism of Country Amid World Cup Is Rooted in Stereotypes
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 25, 2022 | Vivian Nereim

Posted on 11/25/2022 5:09:05 AM PST by C19fan

When the singer Rod Stewart was offered more than $1 million to perform in Qatar, he said, he turned it down.

“It’s not right to go,” Mr. Stewart told the The Sunday Times of London recently, joining a string of public figures to declare boycotts or express condemnation of Qatar as the Gulf nation hosts the soccer World Cup.

In the prelude to the tournament, which started this past weekend, Qatar has faced an increasing barrage of criticism over its human rights record, including the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality and the well-documented abuse of migrant workers.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: doha; fifa; ialsm; qatar; soccer; soccersucks
No Westerners, especially, the limousine liberal types, care about brown migrant workers, mostly from the Indian sub-continent, in Qatar. Everyone who follows the treatment of these workers knew there would be a skull of bones underneath each stadium. This whole kerfuffle started for one reason, because Qatar refuses to bend the knee to the Rainbow Flag.
1 posted on 11/25/2022 5:09:05 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

If we didn’t use stereotypes, we’d have a pretty difficult time navigating our way through life.


2 posted on 11/25/2022 5:13:21 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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The Westerners visiting Qatar have verified every stereotype of the ugly, spoiled, and ignorant “American”.


3 posted on 11/25/2022 5:16:42 AM PST by C19fan
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Islam has firm rules.

These were set over 1300 years ago.

recreational alcohol - forbidden

homosexuality - forbidden

Islam has about 1.4 billion adherents.


4 posted on 11/25/2022 5:17:15 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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That’s kinda incendiary, explosive rhetoric...


5 posted on 11/25/2022 5:17:53 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: C19fan

When the singer Rod Stewart was offered more than $1 million to perform in Qatar, he said, he turned it down.


$1 million is way too low of an offer, Qataris are rich, they should have made a serious offer.


6 posted on 11/25/2022 5:39:21 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: Brian Griffin

don’t believe in Islam - get executed for being an “unbeliever”

in other words, Islam is an oppressive dictatorship


7 posted on 11/25/2022 6:00:19 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: C19fan

Why are Indians going to Qatar to work?
How terrible is India as a country?


8 posted on 11/25/2022 6:18:45 AM PST by EEGator
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To: C19fan

they bent the knee...fans can now wear rainbow hats


9 posted on 11/25/2022 6:31:29 AM PST by RummyChick
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It’s really slick the way the homosexuals have tied soccer to sexual deviancy. As a non-fan of soccer, I feel it’s appropriate that soccer is being made the official sport of the homosexual community.


10 posted on 11/25/2022 6:32:23 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out. Remember that Snowflakes!)
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“...the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality...”


This sentence is factually backwards. The complaint, rightly or wrongly, is that Qatar has failed to decriminalize homosexuality. Criminalization was the world-wide norm until the mid 20th century.


11 posted on 11/25/2022 6:53:01 AM PST by hanamizu
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“When the singer Rod Stewart was offered more than $1 million to perform in Qatar, he said, he turned it down.
“It’s not right to go,” Mr. Stewart told the The Sunday Times of London”

More likely he knew that his audience would have to listen to his music, with the benefit of mind-altering drugs - and knew that could get ugly.

(jk, I actually like Rod)


12 posted on 11/25/2022 9:09:03 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 25 degrees)
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This whole kerfuffle started for one reason, because Qatar refuses to bend the knee to the Rainbow Flag.

Correct, and is there a more obvious example of imperialism at work in the world today?

13 posted on 11/25/2022 9:11:53 AM PST by Jim Noble (The Decline of America is a Choice )
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