Qatar is in a bind over the FIFA World Cup. Numerous news stories keep showcasing Qatar’s Islamic supremacist bigotry and potential danger to infidel attendees such as women and gays, who may choose not conform to the nation’s Sharia norms of dress and behavior, and could face jail. Then there’s the disturbing requirement for attendees to download spyware onto their mobile phones. Add to all that the lawsuit by five Australian women who were stripped and humiliated at gunpoint in an airport search. Kosher foods and Jewish prayers are also banned at the games. No beer or other alcohol is allowed, either.
It’s starting to backfire on Qatar, a country that should never been chosen to host the games in the first place, as these games generally feature infidel frolicking and fun.
In normative Islam, there’s no fun. Now, Al Qaeda has issued a warning to Muslims to boycott the event, stopping short of outright threats. As Qatar bullies infidels in an effort to maintain its Islamic character throughout the games, it is failing to satisfy those Muslims who think that the country should not be hosting the games in the first place, but for a reason completely opposite from that of infidels, who expect Qatar to be accommodating to all visitors, since no one forced the country to bid for the international games.
It’s getting sticky for Qatar: it isn’t Muslim enough for Al Qaeda and the like, but is at the same time too bigoted for infidels.
World Cup organisers, in response to criticism over Qatar’s human rights record including LGBT rights as well as social restrictions, have said that everyone, no matter their sexual orientation or background, is welcome during the event.
Really? Welcome indeed, as long as gays, women, Jews and anyone wanting a beer conform to Sharia. That is not welcoming. The games have become what amounts to a large dhimmi training session for attendees.
Meanwhile, the head of Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence has now warned that Iran could attack the World Cup in Qatar.
“Al Qaeda urges Muslims to shun World Cup, stops short of threats,” Reuters, November 19, 2022:
CAIRO, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s regional branch urged Muslims around the world to shun the soccer World Cup in Qatar, though it stopped short of threatening attacks or promoting violence in connection with the event, according to a statement reported by a monitoring group.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the militant group’s Yemen-based branch, criticised Qatar for “bringing immoral people, homosexuals, sowers of corruption and atheism into the Arabian Peninsula” and said the event served to divert attention from the “occupation of Muslim countries and their oppression”.
“We warn our Muslim brothers from following this event or attending it,” said the statement, reported by the SITE Intelligence group on Saturday, a day before the tournament opens in a predominantly Muslim country for the first time.
World Cup organisers, in response to criticism over Qatar’s human rights record including LGBT rights as well as social restrictions, have said that everyone, no matter their sexual orientation or background, is welcome during the event….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I doubt that Iran will attack the games in Qatar, given that Qatar is the only (now secret) ally that Iran has in the region, aside from Turkey. Methinks the IDF is trying to drive a wedge b/w the two, which is a noble attempt, given how countries like Emirates and Bahrein have turned on Israel at the UN
The al Qaeda demand to boycott the World Cup is too funny: everyone knows that the only patron of Muslim Brotherhood groups in the region is Qatar. Quite likely, al Qaeda and other jihadi groups are peeved at all these billions, which could have gone to them, going into the world cup instead. And that too backfiring as far as propaganda ploys go, given all the negative publicity the games are having on a range of issues, be it the slave labor to the crackdown on LGBTQ to the ban on beer. It’s just hilarious to see Qatar hoisted by their own petard
Mad Max says
Crazy statement by IDF what are they smoking .
gravenimage says
Jihadists have indeed threatened to attack the World Cup:
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/11/jihadis-issue-vague-threats-against-world-cup.php
They have also threatened other world events, like the Olympics.
Thinking that Jihadists would not like to hit major world gatherings is mistaken.
Keith O says
Mainstream mudslimes don’t want the world cup in Qatar and the rest of the world is agreeing.
For once we all agree.
Alkflaeda says
My initial thought was that the Iranians had enough to occupy them at home – then it occurred to me that uniting people in response to an external “threat” is a well known ploy of beleaguered leaders. Margaret Thatcher got a further term of office as UK Prime Minister on the back of the Falklands War.