Qatar slams Europe’s rights storm over World Cup as ‘racism’

卡塔尔抨击欧洲在世界杯上掀起的风暴是“种族主义”

DOHA: Facing a storm of European criticism before the start of the World Cup, Qatar on Tuesday stepped up its diplomatic and media riposte which has included threatening “legal” action to defend its name.

Five days from the opening game, Qatar’s chief World Cup organiser said attacks on the Gulf state had been launched because it “competed as equals and snatched” the World Cup from rival bidders. A senior member of the Qatar Football Association called European critics “the enemy”.

In an interview, Qatar’s Labour Minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri said “racism” was behind the onslaught on his country’s record. “They don’t want to allow a small country, an Arab country, an Islamic country, to organise the World Cup,” he said.

Facing criticism of its treatment of foreign workers and rights for women and the LGBTQ community, the wealthy Gulf state has long used the case that everyone is “welcome” at the World Cup and said opponents were acting in bad faith.

多哈：在世界杯开始前，面对欧洲的批评风暴，卡塔尔周二加强了外交和媒体反击力度，声称会采取“法律”行动捍卫国家名誉。

距离世界杯开幕赛还有5天，卡塔尔世界杯首席组织者表示因为卡塔尔“平等竞争，从竞争对手手中抢走了”世界杯而招致了抨击。卡塔尔足球协会的一名高级成员称欧洲的批评者是“敌人”。

卡塔尔劳工部长阿里·本·萨米赫·马里在采访中表示，“种族主义”是卡塔尔遭受抨击的背后原因。“他们不希望让一个小国，一个阿拉伯国家，一个ysl国家举办世界杯，”他说。

面对外界对该国在外籍工人待遇、女性权利和同性恋群体权利的批评，这个富裕的海湾国家长期以来一直坚持“欢迎所有人”参加世界杯，称反对者的行为非常虚伪。

Three days later, the German ambassador to Doha was summoned over comments made by his country’s interior minister casting doubt on whether Qatar should host the World Cup.

Qatar’s media has spoken of a “systematic conspiracy” by European rivals.

The Al Sharq newspaper slammed “the arrogance” of some European countries.

On a recent European tour, Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said in media interviews that there was “a lot of hypocrisy in these attacks”.

“They are being peddled by a very small number of people, in 10 countries at most, who are not at all representative of the rest of the world,” he told Le Monde without naming those involved.

三天后，卡塔尔召见德国驻多哈大使，原因是德国内政部长对卡塔尔是否应该主办世界杯表示质疑。

卡塔尔媒体称这是欧洲竞争者的“系统性阴谋”。

《沙克报》抨击了某些欧洲国家的“傲慢行径”。

沙特外交部长穆罕默德·本·阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·本·贾西姆·阿勒萨尼在最近的欧洲之行中接受媒体采访，表示，“这些抨击行为十分虚伪”。

他在接受《世界报》采访时表示：“煽风点火的人屈指可数，最多涉及10个国家，他们根本无法代表世界其他地区。”

‘Enemy is a blessing’

“敌人是福”

Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al Thani, a member of the Qatar Football Association executive, told Al Sharq in an interview published on Tuesday: “For me, the presence of the enemy is a blessing and not a curse, because this may push you to do your work in the best possible way.”

Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general of Qatar’s organising committee, told Al Jazeera television that the Gulf state’s unnamed opponents were jealous of its hosting.

He said the attacks were based on “the stereotyped image of the Arab world, which is one of the reasons we fought to host the World Cup, to change the stereotyped idea about Arabs”.

卡塔尔足协执委会成员谢赫·艾哈迈德·本·哈马德·阿勒萨尼在周二发表的一篇采访中对《东方报》表示：“对我而言，敌人的存在是一种祝福，而非诅咒，因为这会促使你拼尽全力。”

卡塔尔奥组委秘书长哈桑•阿尔•塔瓦迪向半岛电视台表示，反对者是嫉妒卡塔尔主办世界杯。

他说，这些批评源自“对阿拉伯世界的刻板印象，而这正是我们争取举办世界杯的原因之一，我们要改变人们对阿拉伯人的刻板印象”。

以下是巴基斯坦黎明报读者的评论：

Kapi

Boycott sand games

抵制沙特的比赛

Salvo

@Reality check, iraq invaded Kuwait first .. wake up

@ Reality check, 是伊拉克先入侵科威特的…醒醒

Joe Jensen

Sounds like the want to start cutting off heads for criticising them!

听着好像他们因为被批评要开始砍头了！

Iqbal Ahmed

Hypocrites double standard. They jealous that rich Arab Muslim country is hosting the Great football event. They got habit of interfering in other countries affairs.

伪君子，双标。他们嫉妒富裕的阿拉伯国家主办足球盛事。他们就喜欢干涉别国事务。

Anzar

@Rafi,  this is wrong. I live in qatar. Percentage of pakistan labour is miniscule compared to bangladeshis indians and nepalis.

@Rafi，你说的不对。我就住在卡塔尔。跟孟加拉国、印度和尼泊尔相比，巴基斯坦劳工的比例非常小。

sam

@Quetta Dildar , no because u rnot paying a single money to their country as taxes

@Quetta Dildar，不，因为你没有给他们的国家交过一分钱的税

sam

@Riaz, foreign nationals does not have to pay taxes in arab countries for the work you do there.. if u r paying taxes your voice need to be heard.. they dont want your voice to be heard and thats why u are exempted from paying taxes there

@Riaz，外国人在阿拉伯国家工作是不需要交税的。如果你纳了税，就要考虑你的感受。但他们不想考虑你的感受，所以给你免税了。

Raj

Only Bangladesh and Indonesia are qualified from muslim world to conduct mega events like world cup.

这个宗教的国家只有孟加拉国和印度尼西亚有资格举办世界杯这样的大型赛事。

St. Mercury

Boycott Qatar air and travel to Qatar.

抵制卡塔尔航空，抵制卡塔尔旅游。

bhaijaan

I wonder what the world would've looked like today if the brits hadn't found oil in the middle east...

我想知道如果英国人没有在中东发现石油，今天的世界会是什么样子……

Rafi

All the Pakistanis blaming the west and supporting the Qatari sheikhs do you know that the workers most killed in construction and denied compensation are poor Pakistanis and whose foreign remittances maintains your balance of payment ?

所有的巴基斯坦人都指责西方，支持卡塔尔酋长，你知道吗，在施工过程中被谋害、被拒绝赔偿的大多数工人都是巴基斯坦穷人，他们从境外汇入的钱维持着巴基斯坦的收支平衡？

Jim

@SayNoToPlastics, unfortunately you are right!

@SayNoToPlastics, 很遗憾，但你说的没错！

ShadowLugia

There was a documentary on how Qatar bribed their way to  host the world cup. Some of the FIFA officials were charged with corruption including the Italian football  legend  Michel Platini. Let us see how Qatar can cope up with the challenge of hosting World's biggest sport event.

有一部纪录片讲述了卡塔尔如何通过行贿获得世界杯主办权。一些国际足联官员被控腐败，包括意大利足球传奇人物米歇尔·普拉蒂尼。让我们看看卡塔尔要如何应对举办全球最大体育赛事的挑战。

RationalBabu

@Junaid, half the population from African and Muslim countries want to migrate to Europe.  There are already millions there.  How many can EU realistically take?

@Junaid，非洲和msl国家的一半人口都想移民到欧洲。已经有数百万人移民了。欧盟国家能接收多少呢？

SaneMind1st

And you know the guards are from which country? They are national border defenders from the Land of Pure.

你知道保安来自哪个国家吗？他们是来自净土的边境守卫者。

RationalBabu

@Asif , hope you are aware that it was bought with massive bribes.

@Asif，希望你知道这个举办资格是通过巨额贿赂拿到的。

NoName

Arabs got no self-respect to confront the Europeans let alone tell them to behave cordial.

阿拉伯人面对欧洲人时连自尊都没有了，更何谈怎么表现得亲切了。

NoName

The Arabs will continue to export their scarce energy & fuel resources to Europe. They will cry about racism but will continue to be servile to the Europeans. Mark my words.

阿拉伯人会继续向欧洲出口他们稀缺的能源和燃料资源。他们会因种 族歧视大声抗议，但只会继续对欧洲人卑躬屈膝。记住我说的话。

Cye

Only west has the right to stage big events of the world. How dare Qatar is hosting World Cup.

只有西方国家才有权利举办全球重大赛事。卡塔尔居然也要举办世界杯，谁给他的胆子。

N Godse

Small number of lgbt extremists imposing their agenda on sports .

少数同性恋极端分子把他们的想法强加在体育上。

Hindsight

Truth is the gulf countries are some of the most racist on earth. The Qataris are washing their image by sports play.

Most Western countries are relatively not racist. They believe in individual rights.

事实是海湾国家是世界上种族主义最严重的国家之一。卡塔尔人想通过体育运动洗白自己的形象。

相对而言，大多数西方国家的种族歧视没那么严重。他们信奉个人的权利。

Masood

These Arabs usually and specifically Qatar give inhuman treatment to poor labors. They are provided lowest possible salaries, deplorable living conditions and continuously black mailed for job termination.

这些阿拉伯人，尤其是卡塔尔人，长期以来都很不人道地对待贫穷劳工。他们的工资极低，生活条件极差，还总是被敲诈，不然就要被解雇。

Junaid

No doubt that this is hypocrisy from the EU states. Look at what Italy did to the migrants and France also taking them as the untouchable people.

毫无疑问，这是欧盟国家的虚伪行径。看看意大利对移民做了什么，法国也把移民当作贱民。

Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

As you sow, so shall you reap.

种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

Ginger

Now you wanna cry about being arab and muslim! How about you put your money where your mouth is and spend that money building schools in Pakistan, than buying Balenciaga bags!

现在你们因为自己是阿拉伯人而激愤不平了！你们怎么不把钱花在刀刃上呢？与其买巴黎世家的包包，不如在巴基斯坦投资修建学校！

Anonymouseee

Totally agree. Qatar is being targeted by a group of hyenas from the west just because it’s a Muslim country.

The west and Europe have killed millions of people in the Middle East in the past 20 years but nobody bothered then.

赞同。卡塔尔被一群西方的鬣狗盯上了，就因为卡塔尔是伊 斯兰国家

在过去的20年里，西方和欧洲已经在中东杀死了数百万人，当时怎么没见你们抗议呢。

Pursuit of justice

Sexual orientation doesn’t require treatment nor conversion, ignorance and bias requires conversion and treatment!

性取向不需要治疗也不需要改变，无知和偏见才需要转变和治疗！

Rajput

Isn't that exactly what Al Jazeera does? Others can play the same game.

这不正是半岛电视台的工作吗？半岛电视台能这么做，别人当然也可以啦。

Riaz

It might be racism but the fact remains that foreign workers are treated like slaves and they have no rights. In fact you have rights only if you are white or rich.

也许这是种族歧视，但事实是，外国工人在卡塔尔就像奴隶一样，他们没有任何权利。事实上，只有白人或富人才有权利。

Iftikhar why

Why didn't the Europeans have issues when South Africa had the World Cup?

南非举办世界杯时，欧洲人为什么没意见呢？