Would You Go?

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All you football fans, no not American football but European football (AKA Soccer) would you go to see a World Cup match in a Muslin country?

Everyone welcome? Gay football fans prepare for Qatar
AFP – Yahoo Sports
By Gregory Walton
December 15, 2019

Doha (AFP) - World Cup 2022 host Qatar has given the clearest indication yet that LGBT fans will be welcome, engaging with gay supporters as it hosts the Club World Cup -- despite criminalising homosexuality.

Organisers of the 2022 soccer spectacle travelled to Britain in recent months to meet Liverpool fan clubs including the side's gay supporters' group, individuals briefed on the meeting have told AFP.

Paul Amann, founder of Liverpool's LGBT supporters' club Kop Outs, then undertook a fact-finding mission to Doha along with his husband in November at the invitation of the World Cup organisers.

"I'm very satisfied that their approach is to provide an 'everyone is welcome' ethos that does include respect, albeit through privacy," he told AFP. "I'm not sure if rainbow flags generally will ever be accepted 'in-country', but maybe in stadia."

Notice, this is about gays. Even though it says LGBT I strong suspect that they will frown upon lesbian   women.

Why do I feel that way, according to Human Rights Watch,

Qatar’s penal code criminalizes “sodomy,” punishing same-sex relations with imprisonment between one to three years. Muslims convicted of zina (sex outside of marriage) can also be sentenced to flogging (if unmarried) or the death penalty (if married). Non-Muslims can be sentenced to imprisonment.

And according to Online Qatar,

Qatari women usually have their hair covered with a black head-dress called Shayla, their bodies are covered with black dress called abayha. Some women also cover their face with a black bourqa, and sometimes the eyes are left uncovered.
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Consequences of not following the dress code
The penal code in Qatar punishes and forbids the wearing of revealing or indecent clothes. This dressing-code law is enforced by a government body. However, in 2012, a Qatari NGO, organized a campaign calling for public decency, when they felt that the government is too relaxed in monitoring the wearing of revealing clothes (not covering shoulders, knees, tights, or transparent clothes). The campaign particularly targets foreigners, constituting majority of Qatar population.

The AFP article goes on to say…

During a recent visit by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, three independent experts did however warn that at least one transgender person had been detained "until they changed their behaviour".

If you were so inclined, would you go to Qatar for the World Cup?

I don’t like the facts that we could face possible jail time or worst and that women have to have their “hair covered with a black head-dress called Shayla, their bodies are covered with black dress called abayha.”

Also not all of the police might get the memo saying leave foreigners alone during the World Cup, or some police might just arrest us out of hate, or some local people might just take the law in to their own hands. I just don’t think that it is worth losing you head over a soccer game.