This was as predictable as it is monstrous. We’re not just talking about having to skip a beer here. We’re talking about arresting women for being raped. We’re talking about slave labor.
“Read this before you get on your moral high horse about Qatar,” by Fizza Qureshi, Anastasia Gavalas, and Julia Tinsley-Kent, Independent, December 11, 2022:
Many Western criticisms we’ve heard over the past few weeks are rooted in Islamophobia and hypocrisy
As England walk onto the pitch tonight, we should be reflecting on the rights of migrants and the LGBT+ community – not just in Qatar, but here in the UK. Because while we are deeply saddened by – and support condemnation of – human rights abuses in Qatar, many western criticisms we’ve heard over the past few weeks are rooted in Islamophobia. Not just that, but they are unhelpful in solving…
AStealthyFart says
Expect nothing less from that rag.
Aum says
I have given up on UK papers.
Even the Financial Times is way Left.
Scotsman48 says
Just imagine being inside that morons head when he writes such trash.
This is the first time in my entire life, Im 74 and from Scotland originally, that I have not watched one single Match as having it in such a country was wrong wrong wrong and having Penalty Shoot Outs to determine the Winner is BS as these men are the fittest of the fit and they should play on until a Goal is scored, and so put them to the max of their abilities… Penalty kick has little to nothing regarding skill at the Game.
gravenimage says
UK’s far-Left Independent: Criticism of Qatar over Sharia is ‘rooted in Islamophobia’
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Don’t want to see slave labor, women raped and gay people stoned to death? What an Islamophobe…