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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If we didn’t use stereotypes, we’d have a pretty difficult time navigating our way through life.
The Westerners visiting Qatar have verified every stereotype of the ugly, spoiled, and ignorant “American”.
Islam has firm rules.
These were set over 1300 years ago.
recreational alcohol - forbidden
homosexuality - forbidden
Islam has about 1.4 billion adherents.
That’s kinda incendiary, explosive rhetoric...
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.
don’t believe in Islam - get executed for being an “unbeliever”
in other words, Islam is an oppressive dictatorship
Why are Indians going to Qatar to work?
How terrible is India as a country?
they bent the knee...fans can now wear rainbow hats
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.
“...the authoritarian monarchy’s criminalization of homosexuality...”
“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)
Correct, and is there a more obvious example of imperialism at work in the world today?
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