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Qatar Muslims "should go to Mecca" to avoid World Cup
Topic Started: Dec 6 2010, 06:25 PM (124 Views)
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Qatar Muslims "should go to Mecca" to avoid World Cup

Muslims in the small Gulf peninsular state of Qatar should go to Mecca for a month if they don't like the idea of being inundated with foreigners at the World Cup in 2022, according to a local religious affairs official.

Qatar last week pulled off one of the most surprising coups in modern sport by winning the right to host the 2022 football World Cup. The island has a local population of no more than 300,000 and has never made it to the finals of the tournament itself.

Organisers of the bid had to assuage concerns about a culture clash between traditional football crowds and the more conservative local Muslim population. They will set up "fan zones" where drinking will be permitted, in addition to upmarket hotel bars which are the only public areas where alcohol can currently be consumed.

The ministry of endowments and religious affairs is also trying to reassure local residents, some of whom are concerned about the influx of football hooligans.

"There's no obligation to stay in the country, is there?" said Ijaz Ahmed, head of the ministry's Fanar Centre, which attempts to explain local culture to foreign residents and visitors. "They can go on the umrah or they can go on holiday to London."

Umrah is the Arabic term for a pilgrimage to Mecca performed outside the annual formal pilgrimage or Hajj season.

Mr Ahmed told the Gulf newspaper The National that drinking was a "difficult issue" for the tournament's organisers. "Islam is quite clear that we shouldn't be drinking alcohol," he said. "Drinking 16 pints of lager doesn't do anyone any good."

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So what about the fan-fests..hitting the town for a party....

all the little boys will be out...

Who wants to spend 3 weeks in Qator !!! Alcohol in segregated fan centres ..can you imagine the price of a beer there ??

Whats there to do

Absolute disgrace !!! When have Qator ever qualified for a WC ?? Never.. Bastards brought off the greatest festival of sport....to sh1t !!!

They think that all the executives will fill their plastic stadia !!

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its an absolute joke that Qatar got the world cup, shame we can't just go away for a month and come back to find that people who follow Islam have gone
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trouble is if caught drunk outside these areas you could be nicked
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desert rat
Dec 6 2010, 07:58 PM
trouble is if caught drunk outside these areas you could be nicked
or have your head cut off
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edl_avfc
Dec 6 2010, 08:00 PM
desert rat
Dec 6 2010, 07:58 PM
trouble is if caught drunk outside these areas you could be nicked
or have your head cut off
Dont be silly...Just 100 lashes in public....

who the fcuk from the great footballing nations want to be there ??

The English with their beer, the Germans with real bier, the brazilians with sambucas, The Spanish with wine with the Italians, the irish (if they qualify) looking for Guiness, the USA with becks...

The Q-wankers dont understand football... Never will...

Just a great PR to them...wish UEFA had the balls to split from FIFA...

make a NEW/REAL FIFA

Russia will be a diaster...can you imagine lots of non-white people trying to party in Moscow...putins neo-nazi Ruskis kids will be looking for blood..

Perhaps in Moscow we can make a stand..and take over it...hope the bastards dont kill too many of us....

Forget Disneyland....take your kids to mafia-land. bribes already accepted.
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