Gay Qatari's article provok backlash over World Cup 'valu' | Rters

Contents:

• BAYERN MUNICH'S LEON GORETZKA HS OUT AT QATAR'S ANTI-GAY MENTS
• WORLD CUP HOSTS QATAR UGHT GAY RIGHTS STORM AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MENTS SCREENED BY OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BROADSTER
• GAY QATARI'S ARTICLE PROVOK BACKLASH OVER WORLD CUP 'VALU'
• BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS
• UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR
• 'THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT OUR L HERE' - QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR MAK ANTI-GAY MENTS
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

BAYERN MUNICH'S LEON GORETZKA HS OUT AT QATAR'S ANTI-GAY MENTS

LGBTQ+ rights activists protted agast the Qatar World Cup outsi Fifa's mm Zurich on TudayA Qatar World Cup ambassador llg homosexualy "damage the md" is "harmful and unacceptable", says Human Rights Qatar ternatnal Khalid Salman told German broadster ZDF that LGBTQ+ people attendg the tournament should "accept our l". Homosexualy is illegal Qatar bee is nsired immoral unr Islamic Sharia said: "[Homosexualy] is haram. However, Qatar 2022 chief executive Nasser al Khater has said the ernment would not change s laws on homosexualy, requtg visors "rpect our culture" Gulf State, where the World Cup will take place om 20 November to 18 December, has also been cricised for s human rights rerd and treatment of migrant Cup 'should not' have gone to Qatar - Sepp BlatterFifa recently wrote to petg natns askg them to "now foc on the football" stead of the petn's ntroversial letter, which was signed by Fifa print Gianni Infanto, was cricised by Human Rights Watch, Amnty Internatnal and LGBTQ+ mpaigners England and Wal, while 10 European football associatns - cludg those of England and Wal - said "human rights are universal and apply everywhere".

WORLD CUP HOSTS QATAR UGHT GAY RIGHTS STORM AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MENTS SCREENED BY OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BROADSTER

"Human Rights Watch recently released a reportexternal-lk sayg that Qatari secury forc are ntug to arrt cizens who are gay, lbian, and transgenr, sometim forcg them to unrgo nversn 's ernment has said the report ntas false chary Stonewall's director of munitns and external affairs Robbie Santos said human rights were beg "disregard and disrpected". On November 8, Khalid Salman, a 2022 FIFA Qatar World Cup Ambassador, scribed homosexualy as “damage the md” an terview wh ZDF, a TV channel Germany. He also remarked that beg gay is “haram, ” which is Arabic for “forbidn.

False rmatn n be harmful to liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, cludg rints of Qatar, who already face discrimatn, vlence, and state-sponsored nversn practic. Remarks by a Qatar World Cup ambassador have been lled “harmful and unacceptable” after he scribed homosexualy as “damage the md” Salman, a former Qatar ternatnal footballer, ma the ments an terview wh the German broadster about the fact that homosexualy is illegal his untry, Salman said: “They have to accept our l here.

[Homosexualy] is haram. “It don’t matter if you’re lbian, if you’re gay, ’s for everyone. Homosexualy Qatar is illegal and punishable by up to three years prison.

GAY QATARI'S ARTICLE PROVOK BACKLASH OVER WORLD CUP 'VALU'

But there have been mixed msag wh a World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman sayg earlier this month that homosexualy was “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF. He is a regular at England ternatnals and was once the victim of a homophobic asslt, he says, at Wembley four years ago, ahead of England’s match agast Spa 2018, when he had an altertn wh another fan.

Qatar FIFA World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman has said homosexualy is “damage the md, ” an terview wh German broadster ZDF on Monday. Durg the terview, Salman was discsg the issue of homosexualy beg illegal Qatar. Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law.

As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said. Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex.

BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS

In the terpretatn of Sharia law that Qatar follows, sex outsi of marriage, cludg homosexualy, is punishable by jail time and, as a maximum sentence, ath by stong, though there isn’t available evince that such a punishment has ever been ed. Nasser Mohamed, a gay Qatari livg exile the US, explaed to Vox. So ’s really hard to build a gay muny.

Mohamed left Qatar his 20s for medil school “wh the tentn of never g back” bee of the limed life he led as a gay man there.

UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR

Though there are small pockets of LGBTQ people Qatar, there’s not a gay scene, Mohamed said. “If you’re an expat, you’re able to live your life like you want, ” a gay Arab man livg Doha told Rters. I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way.

(2:16)ESPNNov 9, 2022, 09:18 AM ETBayern Munich and Germany midfielr Leon Goretzka has said anti-gay ments ma by a Qatar World Cup ambassador are "om another lenium.

"Former Qatar ternatnal Khalid Salman told German broadster ZDF on Tuday that homosexualy was "damage the md" and said gay fans would have to "accept our l, " referrg to homosexualy beg illegal the Gulf state. "On Tuday a group of LGBTQ+ activists protted outsi the FIFA mm Zurich, Swzerland, llg for actn on Qatar's anti-gay laws. WORLD CUP hosts Qatar were aga ught a gay rights storm after homophobic ments were screened by the official tournament broadster.

'THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT OUR L HERE' - QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR MAK ANTI-GAY MENTS

But there was no apology and the issue of gay rights Qatar was further brought to the ame as 2022 World Cup chief Nasser Al Khater was phed on whether openly gay fans uld be themselv his untry. He claimed gay fans would be “weled” and would not feel “threatened or unsafe”. Yet he add: “Homosexual people live Qatar — but public displays of affectn are owned upon.

Those fears seemed to be nfirmed when, wh jt weeks to go until the gam beg, an ambassador for the untry said an terview that homosexualy is a “damage the md. ”Qatari World Cup ambassador and former footballer Khalid Salman exprsed his views on homosexualy to a German broadster, a segment that was cut short after he ma the remark, Rters reported Tuday.

‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS

“[Homosexualy] is haram. ”When asked a follow-up qutn why homosexualy was nsired forbidn, Salman replied: “Bee is damage the md. ”Some football players have been ncerned about the rights of fans who are LGBT+, as well as women attendg the World Cup, as Qatar has a different set of laws for men and women, and homosexualy is crimalized.

“Of urse such ments are terrible, and that is the reason why we are workg on thgs Qatar hopefully improvg, ” Nancy Faer, Germany’s terr mister, told the Associated Prs on Faer’s vis to Qatar last week, she received secury guarante om members of the ernment, which would extend to gay soccer fans who e to watch the match, Rters month, Human Rights Watch found that Qatari secury forc had “arbrarily arrted” LGBT+ people and “subjected them to ill treatment tentn. DOHA (Rters) - An opn article about life as a gay Qatari has stirred bate about the lims of tolerance the nservative Gulf Arab untry which is due to host the 2022 soccer World unprecented public sight to homosexualy a untry where gay sex is punishable by jail, was published on the webse of English-language Doha News on Friday, wrten by a man intified only as Majid. ”Islamic-based legal s ern the ty, gas-rich pensula which has been urged by gay rights groups to accept homosexual fans durg the World Cup 2022 when Qatar be the first Middle Eastern or Mlim untry to host the FIFA print Sepp Blatter said 2010 that gay men g to watch the football “should rea om any sexual activi, ” but he did not expect there to be any News said the article was tend to start a discsn on homosexualy as “Qatar matured and prepared for the World Cup.