That keeps on giving. What did you expect?
Qatar’s conservative regime has been clamping down on pro-LGBT football fans with rainbow bucket hats, T-shirts and flags as Harry Redknapp had his say and declared today: ‘I just want to get on and enjoy the football. If you feel that strongly don’t play or don’t go’.
It’s an Islamic theocracy. Homosexuality is illegal. It carries the death penalty under sharia law, so for crying out loud, what did people expect to happen? This is what happens when you stage an international tournament in a backwards, regressive, medieval shit-hole. They behave as they have always behaved. Like medieval shit-hole dwellers.
Doesn’t affect me, of course. I will never go to an Islamic theocracy and I will never attend a football match. Ten years of aversion therapy at school made sure of that. So I’m just sitting back and enjoying the schadenfreude.
“I will never go to an Islamic theocracy….”
I think that within ten years you might find you’re living in one.
I know. That thought hadn’t by-passed me.
They could easily find themselves in some mini gaza strip, cut off from the porn and alcohol (and all the other life support) that their obscene, primeval death cult rationalizes as OK as long as its stolen off kuffirs.
There are tens, probably hundreds of thousands of people walking the streets as we speak who would happily do the honours.
As there were in the fatherland on the 20s. It’s a fascinating topic, looking at the trials of the low level thugs and murderers – those who actually got their hands dirty. So many them, while obviously not the brightest or best, gave no indication of their true monstrous nature until the goose steppers came along and removed all constraint.
It’s why my loathing for these diseased fanatics and the woke morons who fawn on them is so total and visceral.
They have no real idea of what it is they could end up releasing
Oh, they do. They just think that this time, they’ll be able to control them.
Love the football but when it was awarded to Quatar everyone thought something was wrong. Speak up and get told we were bad looser. Now if course they admit they got it through back handers. Should have stopped it then and there and given it to another country.
Its football, its sport and not a political statement. Just go, play or watch but if you are not happy with the country and its rules stay away.
These people who want the players to make statements etc should go themselves if it’s that important to them.
It was obviously corrupt.
I’ve seen nine bob notes that are more honest than the Qataris. There’s always been corruption in the World Cup but there was probably more this time as we can see from the mad decision to hold a WC in a country that has no history of football and can’t put on the tournament in its usual summer time.
I struggle to think of anywhere that isn’t hilariously corrupt. (Japan maybe? I don’t know, not much actual experience there)
Sure, go to places like the middle East or Eastern Europe and it’s literally bags of cash to get what you want.
Here and in the US etc, it’s speaking engagements and non-executive directorships after you leave your position that are the payoff…
Elswhere in non lefty blogland there is quite a bit of we told you so going on. People who pointed out the issues were vilified for being such bigots but, of course, are now being proved to have been right.
Here for example.
http://houseofdumb.blogspot.com/2022/11/sports-journalists-are-journalists-of.html?m=1