To think that alcohol ban in Qatar shouldn’t be a shock

[Laurendelaney1987]

The Newspapers are reporting that alcohol will not be served in stadiums during the World Cup.

I don’t understand the uproar: it’s a Muslim country: if you go there you shouldn’t expect to be drinking. Visitors have a choice of whether to visit or not, and Qatar are quite right to not want lots of drunks causing mayhem.

There are many many issues with hosting the World Cup in Qatar: but I don’t think this is a big one

No but there is a rule and there is a pisstake which does not then see particularly democratic at the end of the day.

The stadium is built on the death of thousands. It's obscene.

The pathetic wimpy welsh team have made it out for training as have the english team. They look very hot and sweaty esp TA-A and cooling down with big pitch-side blowers of cold air and water

The stadia are 10-15 degrees cooler than as they have shade and air-con - the training grounds appear to be in full sun

With the price of booze and the human rights record, I would need a stiff drink if I was there. Thankfully human innovation came up with the hip flask.

Which of your human rights are not respected in the UK now?

The first world cup I won´t watch...may all those workers who have lost their lives (in the thousands) or been maimed find peace.
Budweiser will have a good team of lawyers I guess and I hope they sue Fifa for zillions. Now that I will watch. To the Qatari government, well may they get what they deserve in an ever hotter place than their country.

So you were ok with the close to 2k of workers in Russia who died annually before their world cup?

But it doesn’t, that’s the point. People would mind less if they gained the contract based on a no alcohol policy.

Qatar is as corrupt and contrary as befits a country ruled by a family who can’t be deposed. Alcohol is not permitted unless it’s part of a bid to host, or you’re wealthy enough to have a corporate box.

@MollieMarie countries develop and progress at different rates. Just because they discovered oil and have money does mean they’re anywhere near as ‘developed’ as you’re inferring

@lightisnotwhite family that can’t be disposed…..hmmm how far off are we then?

@Eastie77Returns Quite and your ancestors will have done the same to different people in the history before that. Which societies lived without killing, enslaving or colonising others? They’re can’t be many.
Hopefully we ( as a planet) have reached a point where we recognise the value of being civilised. Not there for everyone yet but a lot better than it was 500, 1000 or 5000 years ago.
We have also worked out that democracy is better than any other system of government so far and even though we may have beliefs about how other people live we respect, debate and tolerate their position.

Sorry, which post of mine are you referring to? I don't think I've inferred anything of the sort.

Where is the celebration of cultural diversity that we are all supposed be doing? Oh, that's right, it's only if it's the right kind of culture.

Well we had a civil over this issue 350 years ago. So we are a very many years along from the Qataris I think.

Are the Qataris not supposed to be celebrating any cultural diversity either then?

So they should conform to western cultural ideas of diversity?

Is that a typo? Did you mean to write celebrate instead of conform?

Yep, blatant double standard there @samyeagar!

Celebrate works just as well.

And why should we have to celebrate their culture when they don't celebrate anyone elses?

It's a historical double standard. West was always the only right way to do things. (The west west, not whole Europe )

Let's take the debate to the enth degree, are western ideals progressing to more unity or less, do western ideals have longevity across all strata?

Anyway, the World cup is a blue-ribbon event to celebrate football, with nothing to do with culture or diversity. It was actually very nationalistic, pitting one country against the other. Unity and inclusivity weren't a thing until recent world cups.

I think China ought to be given a World cup they did an outstanding job at the Olympics.

They shouldn't be holding the world Cup due to their appalling record on human rights that's the main issue. I'm going to boycott watching it.

Actually, the poster concerned is exhibiting the exact opposite double standard here.

That's where it gets tricky though doesn't it?

In the west, we are in a period of heightened cultural awareness, acceptance, and celebration. What comes along with that though is the unspoken in polite company idea that maybe not all cultures should be celebrated. Which in turn leads to who gets to be the arbiter of that? And based on what? A sense of cultural superiority? Which flies right in the face of awareness, acceptance and celebration.