AP: Qatar offers World Cup visitors an introduction to Islam

AP / The Hill ^ | - 12/17/22 6:27 AM ET | BY LUIS ANDRES HENAO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

[RandFan]

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Fatima Garcia donned a headscarf and a black abaya — a long, loose-fitting robe — over her clothes as she walked into a mosque in Doha to learn about Islam.

In Qatar to enjoy the World Cup with friends, the Salvadoran visitor took a day off from soccer to go sightseeing at the Katara mosque, where preachers have been introducing Islam in multiple languages to curious fans from around the world.

“Qatar is my first exposure to Islam,” Garcia said inside the house of prayer, also known as the blue mosque for its beautiful turquoise tiles. “Qatar has been a life-changing adventure because it gives you a perspective on different cultures.”

Hundreds of thousands of visitors have come to Qatar during the World Cup. For many it’s their first visit to a Muslim country. Those who don’t venture far beyond the stadiums and Doha’s glitzy hotels will have only limited exposure to the country’s religion, such as hearing the call to prayer at a distance or witnessing Muslims prostrate at prayer rooms in stadiums, airports and hotels. But for those who are curious to find out more about Islam, Qatari authorities and religious officials are eager to help

[RandFan]

They will also throw you off a building if you're gay or lock you up for having a beer.

Put that in your puff piece, AP... 🤣

[Gay State Conservative]

It's particularly fun to watch the execution of a woman in Saudi Arabia some years ago. Broad daylight...the middle of a busy street. She's dressed in one of those black burlap sacks and the executioner is dressed in pure white. She continuously screams "I did not kill" until all of a sudden she goes silent. And then you see a river of blood on the street.

It took the executioner a couple of whacks to finish the job.

Even if she *was* guilty it was entirely barbaric.

But it was the will of "allah".

[Da Coyote]

So, a positive piece on Islam.
So that the bottom dwelling journalists can tune up their next anti-Christain screed. There is no lower profession on earth than modern journalism. Even underwater Lesbian sex dancing has more prestige.

[RandFan]

They also used slave labor to build much of those stadiums and hotels. Quite a few died. I dont know how many as it’s impossible to find out.

[Jolla]

until all of a sudden she goes silent

The book A Thousand Splendid Suns is about the life of a girl and then young lady as she grew up in the Arab world. She killed her husband because he never stopped beating her. At her execution the author wrote - the executioner told her to go down to her knees and for the last time, Miriam did what she was told.

[Celtic Conservative]

What is the liberal fascination with Ishmaelites?

CC

[Vaquero]

While my Qatar gently weeps.

[Jaysin]

“What is the liberal fascination with Ishmaelites?”

They both have a common enemy — Western civilization

eventually the left will meet Islam and it won’t be pretty for the left.

In the meantime, normal people like you and I pay the price....

[ealgeone]

Or, they will fly planes into a building because you’re not muslim.

[Rummyfan]

A former colleague of mine, Pakistani by birth, said he once went to see a woman stoned to death in the old country. His comment was ‘she deserved it’.

[Rummyfan]

Watching the games I wonder how many bodies are buried under and within the stadiums.

[Rummyfan]

Fatima be careful. Don’t buy the lie that is Islam.

[3_if_by_Treason]

Matthew 7:16

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Everything I need to know about the members of the cult of Muhammad is reviled by the way they treat their women, their childen, and all of life and civilization around them.

[bert]

The Arab enemy is not the West but the Persians just across the Gulf. Shia Mullahs are the Arab enemies.

The West are customers

[deport]

YES, YES

[bigfootbob]

I couldn’t agree more. It’s amazing to me that none of them have any idea of what’s in store for each and everyone of them once they succeed with their evil agenda. As a Christian you must feel sorry for them, right before they get sent to Satan.

[bigfootbob]

A question that I fear has no rational answer.

[Hazwaste]

Everything one needs to know of Islam was taught on 9/11.

[No name given]

I wonder if that means bootyedge and that fake woman Richard Levine will be thrown off rooftops. Probably.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've had several stopovers (a few days) in Dubai on my way elsewhere,all having been in winter.All you saw there were construction cranes and men with very dark skin working at these sites. It was obvious that they weren't Africans but,rather,men from places like India,Pakistan and Bangladesh.

One can only wonder if they forced to work in July as well as in January.