Please don’t say that Islam is “stuck in medieval times.” You’re hurting the feelings of the 2nd wife of a medieval Emirate whose skyscrapers are built by slave labor and which is a state sponsor of ISIS.
Also Islamophobia. Lots and lots of it.
Muslims face dehumanisation when western countries apply double standards, the wife of the former emir of Qatar has warned in an unusual and critical public intervention from a senior royal in a wealthy Gulf state.
In other news, thousands of slaves are ‘dehumanized’ in Qatar. But most of them aren’t Muslim so it’s okay.
The horrific conditions of workers building the 2022 World Cup facilities in Qatar can be revealed today.We secretly toured the camps where thousands of immigrant workers are living in misery, squalor and fear in the Gulf state.Healthy young men are dying from heart attacks and heat exhaustion working in temperatures topping 40C.Some workers building the World Cup stadiums are not even being paid.One told us: “We are trapped in a nightmare. We are treated like animals, not human beings.”
No medieval dehumanization to see here. Just modern enlightened Islam.
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser al-Missned, one of the most influential and high-profile women in the Arab world, also questioned distinctions between “moderate” or “liberal” and “conservative” Muslims and insisted that it was wrong to say that Islam was “stuck in medieval times”.
Very wrong. Just look at Qatar. It’s run by a medieval patriarchal system of government where blasphemy is punishable by death.
There’s nothing medieval about that. And if you disagree, they’ll chop your head off.
Moza is the second of the three wives of the former emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the mother of the current emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad, and the head of the Qatar Foundation.
Not a single medieval thing to see here.
“Why is it that world leaders gathered to march in defence of Charlie Hebdo, while the Chapel Hill murders were shrugged off as a parking dispute?” she asked, in a reference to the killing of three Muslim students in North Carolina in February.
Because it actually was a parking dispute. While the Hebdo attack was carried out by terrorist groups with links to Qatar.
“I believe this dehumanisation is cultivated through a process of Muslim-phobia,” she said.
I can’t imagine why. In other news, the Qatari royal family helped the 9/11 mastermind escape.
About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
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