I have just come to the conclusion that the Royals backing the World Cup so strongly is a roundabout way of dragging the conservative Islamic type Qataris into a new world.
This is a country where some locals complained that the Tribeca Film Festival is too progressive and inappropriate and against their cultural values. If showing a few movies for a couple of days got these people upset, they have no idea what they are in for when 2022 ticks around.
It makes you scratch your head and wonder if the values of the ordinary, traditional Qataris are really shared with the rich, worldly, well traveled elite who want to open bars, show more dirty movies, and sell alcohol and pork, encourage women to work, have fewer kids, speak more English etc.
There is no way to reconcile those two totally opposing directions for this country.
I have just come to the conclusion that the Royals backing the World Cup so strongly is a roundabout way of dragging the conservative Islamic type Qataris into a new world.
This is a country where some locals complained that the Tribeca Film Festival is too progressive and inappropriate and against their cultural values. If showing a few movies for a couple of days got these people upset, they have no idea what they are in for when 2022 ticks around.
It makes you scratch your head and wonder if the values of the ordinary, traditional Qataris are really shared with the rich, worldly, well traveled elite who want to open bars, show more dirty movies, and sell alcohol and pork, encourage women to work, have fewer kids, speak more English etc.
There is no way to reconcile those two totally opposing directions for this country.