World Cup hosts Qatar ught gay rights storm after homophobic ments screened by official tournament broadster | The Sun

Contents:

• BAYERN MUNICH'S LEON GORETZKA HS OUT AT QATAR'S ANTI-GAY MENTS
• BRISH MISTER TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO 'BE RPECTFUL'
• UK MISTER CRICISED OVER LL FOR GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO SHOW RPECT QATAR
• BEG GAY IS 'DAMAGE THE MD', QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR SAYS
• WORLD CUP HOSTS QATAR UGHT GAY RIGHTS STORM AFTER HOMOPHOBIC MENTS SCREENED BY OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT BROADSTER
• ‘I FEEL GAY, DISABLED … LIKE A WOMAN TOO!’: INFANTO MAK BIZARRE ATTACK ON CRICS
• 'THEY HAVE TO ACCEPT OUR L HERE' - QATAR WORLD CUP AMBASSADOR MAK ANTI-GAY MENTS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

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.

BRISH MISTER TELLS GAY WORLD CUP FANS TO 'BE RPECTFUL'

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". "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".

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.

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

Salman told ZDF that beg gay was “haram, ” meang forbidn acrdg to Islamic law.

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

As many people are expected to travel to Qatar for the World Cup, “let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said. 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.

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

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. “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.

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

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.

Qatari law crimaliz sex outsi marriage, cludg gay sex. 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.

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

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’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

I know gay men workers’ mps wouldn’t be able to live the same way.

BERLIN — An ambassador for the World Cup Qatar has scribed homosexualy as a “damage the md” an terview wh German public broadster ZDF jt two weeks before the openg of the global soccer tournament the Gulf Qatari natnal soccer player Khalid Salman told a German reporter an terview that beg gay is “haram, ” or forbidn Arabic, and that he has a problem wh children seeg gay people. Concerns about the nservative untry’s treatment of homosexuals livg the untry as well as LGBTQ tourists attendg the World Cup have also been exprsed for a long the terview, Salman also said that homosexualy “is a spirual harm.

Let’s talk about gays, ” Salman said English, which is simultaneoly dubbed to German the TV segment.