[desertdude]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Qatar sucks anyway. You have to smuggle in your Scotch and any country that doesn't appreciate a good Scotch isn't the least bit civilized.

Qatar allows Alcohol

xerxes xerxes:

No kidding. I really hope Israel qualifies for that one so Qatar has to publicly address their law that bans any Jew from being in their country.

Only GCC country that has open diplomatic relations with Israel and even had/has an Israeli consulate in Doha

Please brush up on your BS before posting

[GreenTiger]

All kidding aside Qatar has every right to impose this kind of restrictions. It is their country representing their culture.

[Unsound]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

All kidding aside Qatar has every right to impose this kind of restrictions. It is their country representing their culture.

Yup. No different than Canada asking European women to keep there tops on at the beach.

[Jabberwalker]

Unsound Unsound:

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

All kidding aside Qatar has every right to impose this kind of restrictions. It is their country representing their culture.

Yup. No different than Canada asking European women to keep there tops on at the beach.

Unfortunately, we do things like that, still.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Unsound Unsound:

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

All kidding aside Qatar has every right to impose this kind of restrictions. It is their country representing their culture.

Yup. No different than Canada asking European women to keep there tops on at the beach.

Where? Last time I heard women had the right to go topless in public. Or was that a provincial thing?

[Jabberwalker]

It's very provincial.

[2Cdo]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

It's very provincial.

Plus, the women that choose to go topless are those you'd rather see wearing a burqa.

[Jabberwalker]

The British refer to them as "moose".

[N_Fiddledog]

Yeah I don't see a problem with Qatar having the world cup myself. They're conservative compared to us, but compared to the other Arab states they're almost, kinda western.

I'm just going by impressions from little bits of knowledge, but yeah I seem to remember when they were applying for the world cup they were saying there could be an area for drinking in the stadium and an Israeli team could come if it made it. On the drinking thing, don't they need a permit, or something, or will any ID do? I forget. I seem to recall them needing something special, and wasn't the King or Sheik or whatever waffling on drinking laws, or fluctuating back on forth on which hotels could serve or whether they could?

I know it's hard to get a fix on how conservative the laws are in Qatar, because they fluctuate on strictness. For example here's one on women being allowed to wear what they call "burkinis" in gyms.

http://www.muslimwomennews.com/n.php?nid=6272

Doesn't matter. I'm pretty sure about the big one. The one that matters. Qatar banned Sharia. Or at least they abolished the real nutty stuff. They might have some sort of Sharia light.

If Qatar was like, say Dubai, where Western women have been thrown in prison for being raped you'd have to question how FIFA, or whoever it is could be so nutty as to give them a World cup event, but Qatar should be OK, I think, maybe, one would hope.

Wasn't there some critique on how tough they were on foreign workers though? I seem to remember the phrase "slave labor" being thrown around.

[xerxes]

Yeah. It's estimated about 4000 slave labourers will die building the World Cup stadiums.

Also part of the controversy of Qatar having the World Cup is that it's usually 50+ degrees during the day in summertime which is unconscionable to have players play in. But it's such an obvious bit of corruption that Qatar got the WC. It's a country with no soccer heritage or history, none of the stadiums exist yet, the city in which the final is set to played doesn't exist yet and other cultural reasons as well. But it's fifa; the most corrupt organization on earth so none of those things mattered only $$$.

[Zipperfish]

Unsound Unsound:

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

All kidding aside Qatar has every right to impose this kind of restrictions. It is their country representing their culture.

Yup. No different than Canada asking European women to keep there tops on at the beach.

Yeah, speaking of BS, what a lot of BS that is. Free women from the boob burqas!!!!!

[N_Fiddledog]

Burqinis



Which beach would you prefer for your World Cup Holiday?

Take your pick

[desertdude]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Yeah I don't see a problem with Qatar having the world cup myself. They're conservative compared to us, but compared to the other Arab states they're almost, kinda western.

I'm just going by impressions from little bits of knowledge, but yeah I seem to remember when they were applying for the world cup they were saying there could be an area for drinking in the stadium and an Israeli team could come if it made it. On the drinking thing, don't they need a permit, or something, or will any ID do? I forget. I seem to recall them needing something special, and wasn't the King or Sheik or whatever waffling on drinking laws, or fluctuating back on forth on which hotels could serve or whether they could?

I know it's hard to get a fix on how conservative the laws are in Qatar, because they fluctuate on strictness. For example here's one on women being allowed to wear what they call "burkinis" in gyms.

http://www.muslimwomennews.com/n.php?nid=6272

Doesn't matter. I'm pretty sure about the big one. The one that matters. Qatar banned Sharia. Or at least they abolished the real nutty stuff. They might have some sort of Sharia light.

If Qatar was like, say Dubai, where Western women have been thrown in prison for being raped you'd have to question how FIFA, or whoever it is could be so nutty as to give them a World cup event, but Qatar should be OK, I think, maybe, one would hope.

Wasn't there some critique on how tough they were on foreign workers though? I seem to remember the phrase "slave labor" being thrown around.

It pretty obvious as is with most of your posts, you have no idea what you're on about and just talking out of your ass....as usual

[Unsound]

xerxes xerxes:

But it's fifa; the most corrupt organization on earth so none of those things mattered only $$$.

Worse than the IOC?

[BartSimpson]

desertdude desertdude:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Qatar sucks anyway. You have to smuggle in your Scotch and any country that doesn't appreciate a good Scotch isn't the least bit civilized.

Qatar allows Alcohol

Why the heck couldn't we have any when we transited the place? We were always told it wasn't allowed.

At least in SA they didn't care so long as we kept it on base.