World Cup ambassador's horrific gay slur

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An ambassador for the World Cup successful Qatar has described homosexuality arsenic a “damage successful the mind” successful an interrogation with German nationalist broadcaster ZDF lone 2 weeks earlier the opening of the tourney successful the Gulf state, highlighting concerns astir the blimpish country’s attraction of gays and lesbians.

Former Qatari nationalist squad subordinate Khalid Salman told a German newsman successful an interrogation that being cheery is “haram,” oregon forbidden successful Arabic, and that helium has a occupation with children seeing cheery people.

Excerpts of the tv interrogation were shown connected the ZDF quality programme Heute Journal. The afloat interview, which is portion of a documentary, volition beryllium shown connected ZDF.

About 1.2 cardinal planetary visitors are expected successful Qatar for the tournament, which has faced disapproval and skepticism ever since the gas-rich emirate was selected arsenic big by FIFA successful December 2010. Concerns astir LGBTQ tourists attending the World Cup person besides been expressed for a agelong time.

In the interview, Salman besides said that homosexuality “is a spiritual harm.”

“During the World Cup, galore things volition travel present to the country. Let’s speech astir gays,” Salman said successful English, which is simultaneously dubbed into German successful the TV segment. “The astir important happening is, everybody volition judge that they travel here. But they volition person to judge our rules.”

The interrogation was chopped abbreviated by a media serviceman of the World Cup organising committee aft Salman expressed his views connected homosexuals, ZDF reported.

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