[C19fan]

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.

[RoosterRedux]

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

[Brian Griffin]

Islam has firm rules.

These were set over 1300 years ago.

recreational alcohol - forbidden

homosexuality - forbidden

Islam has about 1.4 billion adherents.

[Gene Eric]

That’s kinda incendiary, explosive rhetoric...

[ChronicMA]

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

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

[EEGator]

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

[RummyChick]

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

[FlingWingFlyer]

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.

[hanamizu]

“...the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality...”

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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.

[BobL]

“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)

[Jim Noble]

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?