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QATAR LATE MINUTE EQUALIZER

Thank you Khoukhi (and Abunada 🥹) 🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦

RT @liqaa_maki: لسوء الحظ فإن عليك أحيانا أن توضح الواضح كي يفهم البعض، وليته يفعل. أتحدث هنا عن (نخب) ، عجبت أو استنكرت قولي إن إيران ارتك…

The irony is that the same states you’re threatening are the ones repeatedly asked by your country to mediate and save you.

as of 2025, 2.3% of Arab opposition to israel is rooted in religious reasons (arabcenterdc.org/resource/ar…)

I think of these women every day and feel guilty. If not for geographical luck this could be me. I don't know how to help

so instead of showing the world cup opening ceremony i expect the bbc crew to give everyone watching a lecture about ethics and human rights like they did in 2022

Qatar voted for Morocco 🫩

Something quite insidious about liberal “journalists” on here. Short story in four pictures, explains what articles can’t about how pure racism and bigotry made it so the lie survives and the truth is buried. They know, they just don’t want you to know as well.

In addition to previously exempting children of Qatari women, all persons with disabilities, and children of imams from school book and transportation fees - Her Excellency @Lolwah_Alkhater has now included students holding Qatari travel documents and holders of permanent residency cards. Under her patronage our education system is leading with humanity and ensuring no child is left behind. I was very happy to hear permanent residents were added, we are blessed in Doha with one of the best resident communities in the world.

في كل مرة ينشر فيها أي شخص من السعودية أو دول الخليج صورًا لأزيائه أو ثقافته التقليدية، يتعرض لآلاف الهجمات. فإذا كان الزي جنوبيًا سعوديًا، يُقال إنه "يمني". وإذا كان شماليًا، يُقال إنه شامي. وإذا كان غربيًا، يُقال إنه مصري. وإذا كان شرقيًا، يُقال إنه فارسي. الخلاصة هي أن عرب الخليج لا يُسمح لهم، على ما يبدو، بادعاء أي ثقافة أو تاريخ لمجرد وجود أي تشابه مع ثقافة أو تاريخ آخر. وكأن التقاليد المشتركة بين المجتمعات المتجاورة ظاهرة نادرة. الأمر المثير للاهتمام هو أن هذا المعيار لا يُطبق في أي مكان آخر. فالشاي نشأ في الصين، ومع ذلك لا أحد يُجادل في أنه ليس جزءًا من الثقافة الهندية. ولا أحد يُجادل في أن القهوة ليست جزءًا من الثقافة الإيطالية. الطربوش مُشترك بين دول عديدة، ولا أحد يُصر على أنه حكر على دولة واحدة. والقفطان موجود من المغرب إلى آسيا الوسطى بأشكال محلية لا حصر لها، ولا أحد يعتبر ذلك مشكلة. لكن عندما يتعلق الأمر بالخليج، يُعتبر كل تشابه دليلًا على أن الثقافة حكر على غيرهم. الافتراض الضمني هو التالي: لا يُسمح لعرب الخليج إلا بصورة البدوي الفقير التائه في الصحراء. لا عيب في هذه الصورة، ولكن ليس لأحد الحق في اختزال شعب بأكمله إلى نموذج واحد. كل ما هو متطور، ومتنوع، وفني، وغني تاريخيًا، يُفترض أنه مُستعار من غيره. يُنظر إلى احتمال أن يكون لعرب الخليج تقاليد عريقة خاصة بهم، أو أن يكونوا قد ساهموا في تشكيل الثقافات المحيطة بهم، أو حتى أن يكونوا مصدرًا لبعض التقاليد الإقليمية المشتركة، على أنه أمر لا يُتصور.

Every time anyone from Saudi or the Gulf posts their traditional attire/culture they get thousands of attacks. If it’s Southern Saudi dress it’s “actually Yemeni.” If it’s Northern it’s Levantine. If it’s Western it’s Egyptian. If it’s Eastern it’s Persian. The ultimate conclusion is that Gulf Arabs are apparently not allowed to claim any culture or history if there is any similarity with anyone. As if shared traditions between neighboring societies is some rare phenomenon. What’s interesting is that this standard applies nowhere else. Tea originated in China yet nobody argues it isn’t part of Indian culture. No one argues coffee is not part of Italian culture. The fez is shared across multiple countries and nobody insists it can only belong to one of them. The kaftan exists from Morocco to Central Asia in countless local forms and nobody treats that as a problem. But when it comes to the Gulf, every similarity is evidence that the culture belongs exclusively to someone else. The underlying assumption is this: Gulf Arabs are only allowed the image of the poor Bedouin wandering the desert. There is no shame in that image, but nobody has the right to reduce an entire people to a single archetype. Anything sophisticated, diverse, artistic or historically rich must have been borrowed from somebody else. The possibility that Gulf Arabs developed rich traditions of their own, shaped the cultures around them, or may even be the source of some shared regional traditions is treated as unthinkable.

And these were massive construction projects in Qatar involving a huge number of workers building seven stadiums from scratch. When you think of how many workers are killed doing regular construction in countries like Canada for instance, the racism against Qatar was obvious.

Victim card DECLINED. Cry me a river. Iran successfully staged over 20 terrorist attacks across the GCC since their revolution, and attempted countless others. They’ve bombed airports, residential areas, city centers, ports and all sorts of civilian infrastructure. They even attempted to bomb universities which was thankfully intercepted. They killed over half a million people in Syria and displaced millions more. Aleppo and Homs after Iran looked no different to Gaza after Israel. If you don’t want people to call you a terrorist regime, then don’t be one. Simple.

Having worked on the infrastructure for Lusail City where I saw all HSE reports for the 30 construction projects, this is accurate.

Fun World Cup Fact: The @guardian story, later amplified by @Reuters, that 6,500 migrant workers died building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums was bogus. The 6,500 figure was actually the TOTAL number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka who died in Qatar from 2011-2020, regardless of occupation or cause of death. That’s 650 deaths per year across nearly 2 million expats from those five nationalities: a yearly mortality rate of just 0.0325% from ALL causes. The yearly mortality rate for QATARIS was actually higher at 0.0571%. The real number of deaths among workers involved in stadium construction was 40. Of those, 37 were non-work-related. Only 3 were construction accidents. For comparison: Brazil had 8 World Cup construction deaths. Russia had 21. So how did Qatar maintain such a low fatality rate despite building far more infrastructure? By implementing some of the strictest worker safety measures ever seen at a World Cup, including mandatory StayQool cooling suits with patented heat-management technology that may eventually become standard for construction workers worldwide. Instead of having any kind of humility and learning from these developments, they chose racism and straight up lying.

Joseph Aoun is extremely sensible and realistic. Those disagreeing are likely intellectually challenged.

Aoun is right. Iran cynically uses Lebanon in its war with Israel & the US, under the guise of "muh resistance". It does the same in Iraq, engaging in state capture & turning these countries into forward operating bases where Arabs die but Iranians are kept largely away.

قبل قليل… مصادر CNN: إسرائيل خططت مع أذربيجان ووضعت جنودها وجيشها جنوبًا على الحدود الإيرانية مما ساعدها في ضرب مدينة تبريز الإيرانية. أيضًا وضعت إسرائيل قواعد في العراق خلال الحرب مما ساهم في شن هجمات داخل العمق الإيراني. رغم ذلك إيران لم تضرب أذربيجان ولا القواعد في العراق واكتفت بضرب العرب.