Former footballer Khalid Salman in an interview: “Everyone will accept gays in our country but they will have to accept our rules”
One of the ambassadors of the Qatar Football World Cup, Khalid Salmandefined thehomosexuality and “psychic damage“, during an interview with the German television broadcaster Zdf. The interview, anticipated by some media and by TV itself, will be broadcast as part of a documentary on ‘secret Qatar’.” During the World Cup, many will arrive things in our country. Let’s talk about gays – said Salman, former footballer -. The most important thing is the following: everyone will accept that they come to our country. But they will have to accept our rules“. In his perspective, homosexuality” is psychic damage. “
Khalid Salman also said that being gay is “haram”, or forbidden in Arabic, and that he has a problem with children they see gay people. The interview was immediately interrupted by the spokesman of the organizing committee of the World Cup.
About 1.2 million international visitors are expected in Qatar for the tournament, which has faced criticism and skepticism since the emirate was selected as a guest by FIFA in December 2010. Concerns also over the treatment of homosexuals living in the country have also been expressed for some time by LGBTQ tourists who will participate in the World Cup.
GERMAN MINISTER: “HORRIBLE WORDS”
The statements by Qatar’s World Cup ambassador, Khalid Salman, are “horrible”. This was stated by the German interior minister, Nancy Faeser, responding in Berlin to a question about the words of Salman, who at the Zdf qualified homosexuality as “psychological damage”.
