“Help us preserve Qatar’s culture and values.” Fine. No one should have any problem with a nation wanting to preserve its own culture and values. Just remember the principle: for a Muslim country like Qatar to preserve its culture and values that are in line with Sharia is altogether fitting and proper. And for a non-Muslim country like the U.S. to preserve its culture and values that are in opposition to Sharia is racist, bigoted and Islamophobic.
“Leggings are not pants, Qatar warns tourists,” AAP, May 28, 2014:
THE Arab emirate of Qatar has issued a decree telling tourists that leggings are not pants.
The Gulf state has launched a modesty drive to make sure tourists understand what is and isn’t appropriate dress. And leggings fail to make the cut.
The Reflect your respect campaign, managed by Qatar’s state-run Islamic Culture Centre, uses Twitter, Instagram and leaflets distributed in public places to inform visitors of basic modesty laws in preparation for the 2022 Football World Cup.
“If you are in Qatar, you are one of us. Help us preserve Qatar’s culture and values. Please dress modestly in public places,” the leaflets explain.
Wondering what to pack for your trip to Qatar? The authorities have these tips.
The word “modestly” has been starred on the leaflet and a footnote reads: “Leggings are not pants”.
According to Qatar leggings are not appropriate dress because they are too tight and they can be translucent.
“It is expected that you wear decent clothes and women should avoid wearing any garments that are too tight; too short or translucent such as mini-skirts or sleeveless dresses,” the Culture centre says….
Peter Buckley says
Just wait till those corrupt Westerners invade Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. Oh what fun that will be.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10835315/Qatar-World-Cup-2022-Sepp-Blatter-admits-it-was-a-mistake-to-host-tournament-in-the-Middle-East.html
Millions could have told Blatter it was a “mistake” as soon as it was announced. Still, he’s pocketed the bribes, so why should he be bothered……?
mortimer says
Boycott.
Brian Hoff says
The real reson isnot the hot weather but the england fan want to drink beer and other acholic drink but this is than Islanist nation.
Lauren says
Maybe I’ll just stay home
greg says
So a World Cup where it is actually illegal for women to wear a football kit? Where are all the furious feminists, and female footballers? Come on ladies the silence is deafening….
mortimer says
Those pseudo-feminists are cultural Marxists sacrificing the Western tradition of liberalism on the bloody altar of an incredible, delusional utopia. They believe they can ride the tiger of Islam.
Angemon says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZ8L6SZmaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FC85vgHCmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_QhF5HYdS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUV2BJIEPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZkSFhfL-hM
And that’s all i have to say about it.
Paleologos says
I keep balancing my vacation plans in my mind …
Qatar/Hawaii? … Qatar/Hawaii? …
Well! This settles that question, doesn’t it?
I love prancing around in my leggings during my “free male ballet street show.”
Guess I will do my show in Kona! 🙂
http://www.mytravelo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Living-in-Kona-Hawaii-2.jpg
… I taught this guy everything he knows …
http://balletnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/SwanLake032-682×1024.jpg
Damn! … and I so wanted to rub up against thousands of shit for brains muslims!
Oh well!
R/
Paleologos
Angemon says
“Damn! … and I so wanted to rub up against thousands of shit for brains muslims!”
Try UK, France or the Netherlands.
I particularly suggest France around prayer time.
Paleologos says
Angemon,
Unfortunately, the good old USA has PLENTY shit for brains muslims too!
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/number-of-mosques-in-us-grew-74-since-911/
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/muslim-population-doubles-in-usa-since-911/
Actually, I don’t want to rub up against muslims, but, I would love to boot them all in their filthy asses …
http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-Graphics/MuslimsPrayCapitol.jpg
Yeah! These boots were made for bootin! 🙂
R/
Paleologos
wes says
I have to agree with them: leggings are not pants. They are basically long underwear.
Reality Check says
In 2000 – 2001, I lived and worked in Qatar and I still hate the country with all the passion of my heart. It has enough glitz and glamour to compete with Dubai but the slavery and exploitation of the foreign workforce were unimaginable – not to mention the blatant racism which said that a Westerner will get a much higher salary than an Easterner for the same job; the passports confiscated once you arrive in their country because once you set foot there, you are their slave; the rampant whoring and chasing of foreign women because once they go to Qatar, they are considered to be fair game.
And they say we are the shameless culture! Without exaggeration, I have never seen so much immodesty, before or after, since I was in Qatar. They are hypocrites with a capital H because they don’t observe their own rules for modesty in behaviour in the first place. Rules are for the foreigners – not for the Qataris. The Qataris are and have always been above the rules.
Bee says
Couldn’t agree more. Spent three years there and now four years on I still feel deep hatred for that country and it’s people. Qataris are just horrible people in my book.
Buraq says
Uncanny how Qatari cultural values seem to mirror exactly what Shari’a orders people to do. Just coincidence ……. ? :))
Clowns!
mark says
I think westerners should respect a country’s request or demand for modest clothing. And I think Muslims should accept that if they choose to live in civilized countries, they must cease their barbaric practices.
The Levite says
Is it normal to spit every time you say “qatar”?
Mirren10 says
”THE Arab emirate of Qatar has issued a decree telling tourists that leggings are not pants.
The Gulf state has launched a modesty drive to make sure tourists understand what is and isn’t appropriate dress. And leggings fail to make the cut”
I can’t understand why *anyone** would want to take the risk of going to a mohammedan country on holiday.
If you don’t get raped and then imprisoned for reporting it, or jailed for holding hands with your husband in public, you’ll be arrested for wearing leggings.
Why don’t people just completely boycott these sh!£holes ?
Reality Check says
My thoughts exactly. They pretend to be liberal to attract the tourist dollar but they’ll jail you on the spot before you even realize you did something wrong in their eyes.
Brian Hoff says
At one time than america citizen was arrest for trying to make and sell acholic drink as he drank some himself instead of getting the death penaly he got 50 laps of the whip on the back. He compliant to the america diplmat than was told they warm him many time not to that and to obey SA law. The SA warn him many time also. If he wasnot than america citizen he would have being execute.
General Pershing says
And when the come here (Sweden) it’s all about respecting their culture and religion. This does not go both ways.
mister mouse says
having lived and worked in Qatar for two years I have seen at first hand the hideousness of their ‘morality’ and ‘modesty’ … their morality does not extend to the tens of thousands of debentured (slave) labor and the hundreds of building site deaths per annum, and their modesty does not extend to the slavvering younger generation of indigenous males who frequent the known hotels in West Bay where micro skirted Russian girls are flown in for a few nights before they rotate back to Bahrein or UAE: there is plenty of opportunity for the menfolk to test out their morality and modesty but strangely they just never seem actually to succeed much, very odd … neither does their morality or modesty do the Filipina house slaves much good either, or the hordes of drone workers drafted in from Kerala, Sri Lanka et al … we tried to pay our Filipina admin clerk 7,500 riyals a month which nearly got her and family deported because we were over-paying and we were ordered to give her 5,500 … I was on 46,300 a month and I kept my passport, which she couldnt do, and I had a multi-exit visa which no-one beneath the rank of Saudi, Kuwaiti, etc were allowed, which is tough if you’re a brother moslem such as Egyptian, Tunisian, Moroccan – apartheid, you aint seen nothing yet til you go Qatar and breath the modesty and morality
Dennis Trisker says
When I go to Muslim countries like Egypt, Indonesia, and Malaysia I purposely resepect their customs. It is a shame that we westerners don’t demand the same if they come to or nations!
Reality Check says
“Leggings are not pants, Qatar warns tourists,” AAP, May 28, 2014.
And the West is not Islam-o-landia but the Muslims keep forgetting that all the time.
Time to start demanding the same from all the Muslims who want to live in the West but show no respect for the Western culture and rules because they think that Islamic rules should reign supreme everywhere. NEWSFLASH: Your rules mattered only in Islam-o-landia, which obviously gave you nothing if you are here. Christian countries go with Christian rules and you are supposed to follow the law of the land rather than taking your laws everywhere.
When it comes to modesty and respect, the Qataris must look at themselves before looking at anyone else. I have seen many Qatari men forget about any shame and drive along modestly dressed foreign women, shouting shameless propositions in a very un-Islamic way. How is that modesty and respect? Cultural respect in Qatar is always a one-way street, so this new campaign is nothing but another instance of outrageous hypocrisy that doesn’t care how obvious it is.
Shawn says
Lol…….. they can modestly kiss my ass! If this is what they want Americans to do then ban Americans from traveling to Qatar. Oh, and stay the fuck out of America while they are at it.