Gulf nations back Qatar 2022
Gulf states rallied behind Qatar following allegations published by Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper that a senior Qatari soccer official made payments to win the country’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar has vehemently denied the accusations.
Secretary-General Abdullatif Al Zayani of the Gulf Cooperation Council attacked what he called a “biased media campaign”.
“The Secretary-General affirmed the GCC’s ... complete support in the face of all doubters and haters and everyone who is attempting to lessen (Qatar’s) right to host this historic global sporting event,” the GCC statement said yesterday.
Qatar won its bid through “honest competition,” he said.
The World Cup has never been held in the Middle East before.
Qatar on Saturday defended its campaign and rejected the corruption allegations which it said were timed to coincide with an investigation by FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, into the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup and the one before it in Russia in 2018.
The GCC statement will provide welcome support for Qatar.
Reuters
whether the enemies like it or not Qatar must host the 2022 world cup Ins ha Allah
This is a clear case of prejudice nothing more or nothing less. I have been living in US for 20 years, every time a Muslim nation try to achieve something, there is a dedicated media campaign against it. For example, few years back Dubai tried to bid on LA port. They almost bought it. They had the highest bid. Media started an intense campaign equating all Muslims to some of the most horrible things in the world. As a result, congress and senate got involved and that bid was denied. Let me give you a recent example. A few days ago, on request from US government, Qatar govt got involved in a prisoner swap between Taliban and US. All Qatar did was facilitate the who negotiation and spent got amount of money and took great risk on reputation for the great country of Qatar. But if you would see the coverage of American media of this story, you would find that Qatar is accused of working with Taliban against US. Qatar is shown in media as a week nation that is not able to take care of it's affairs.
What bothers me more than coverage of western media is when Muslims start aligning behind biased coverage against Muslims thinking that somehow makes them progressive and modern.
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They said that & we say this .................... Mon , 16.06.2014 , 09.00 hrs