Qatar Dress Code

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:12PM #1

In Qatar, they're distributing leaflets telling people how to dress. I wonder how well it would go down, if western countries told Muslims to stop wearing Hijabs in public, or we'll lock you up because it's not our culture.

You could get 6 months in prison for wearing something they don't like in Qatar, or saying something they don't like. It's okay though because only white people can have racist opinions these days, everybody else just has culture differences.

The world cup should be interesting, why would anybody go there?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatar-launches-campaign-for-modest-dress-code-for-tourists-9438452.html

Arthur Beesley · 28-05-2014 09:13PM

Disappointing but not unexpected.

Stheno · 28-05-2014 09:13PM

In countries like Malta and Spain if you want to visit cathedrals etc, they insist on appropriate dress, to the point of having a basket of pashmina type scarves that women with bare shoulders must wear before they are allowed in

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:14PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

In Qatar, they're distributing leaflets telling people how to dress. I wonder how well it would go down, if western countries told Muslims to stop wearing Hijabs in public, or we'll lock you up because it's not our culture.

Well we're western liberal democracies, and they're conservative monarchies, so really I don't know what comparison you're trying to make.

It's okay though because only white people can have racist opinions
these days, everybody else just has culture differences.

What has racism got to do with what you posted, exactly?

AnonoBoy · 28-05-2014 09:15PM

Stheno wrote: »

In countries like Malta and Spain if you want to visit cathedrals etc, they insist on appropriate dress, to the point of having a basket of pashmina type scarves that women with bare shoulders must wear before they are allowed in

Yeah but that's visiting religious sites not walking around in the street.

I don't think they should be hosting the World Cup if they can't handle women wearing shorts.

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:15PM

Stheno wrote: »

In countries like Malta and Spain if you want to visit cathedrals etc, they insist on appropriate dress, to the point of having a basket of pashmina type scarves that women with bare shoulders must wear before they are allowed in

That's a bit different though, it's a private building, they have a right to decide who they allow in, sort of like night clubs used to have dress codes here.

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:19PM

Nodin wrote: »

What has racism got to do with what you posted, exactly?

What would be the response be if we made wearing Hijabs in public punishable by 6 months in prison?

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:20PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

What would be the response be if we made wearing Hijabs in public punishable by 6 months on prison?

From who? Certainly I wouldn't be in favour of imposing a dress code on anyone.

Is there some point you are trying to make?

Why did you mention raicism in your op?

shruikan2553 · 28-05-2014 09:22PM

No leggings? Glass them.

Skylinehead · 28-05-2014 09:22PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah but that's visiting religious sites not walking around in the street.

I don't think they should be hosting the World Cup if they can't handle women wearing shorts.

They shouldn't be hosting the World Cup for a hell of a lot more reasons than that.

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:24PM

Nodin wrote: »

From who? Certainly I wouldn't be in favour of imposing a dress code on anyone.

Is there some point you are trying to make?

Why did you mention raicism in your op?

Because we would be considered racist if we did these things.

corner of hells · 28-05-2014 09:25PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

No leggings? Glass them.

With a pint glass ?

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:26PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

Because we would be considered racist if we did these things.

Muslims aren't a race. It would be a sectarian act.

I still don't understand what point you're trying to make in the OP.

Tombi! · 28-05-2014 09:27PM

Well, the thing is, in those countries it's different culture.
Here we're not so much "anti-hijab" as much as their "pro-hijab" in those countries.

All in all if you don't want to dress a certain way that's part of the culture then don't go there.

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:28PM

corner of hells wrote: »

With a pint glass ?

List of reasons not to have it in Quatar

1- Treament of workers
2 - It's a conservative monarchy
3 - The heat
4 - The whole thing with the drink
5 - The dress code

Feel free to add.

humbert · 28-05-2014 09:29PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

What would be the response be if we made wearing Hijabs in public punishable by 6 months in prison?

People would think we were not a tolerant liberal democracy.

But I assume what you're going for is, look at them not tolerating us, why should we be expected to tolerate them?

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:29PM

Nodin wrote: »

Muslims aren't a race. It would be a sectarian act.

I still don't understand what point you're trying to make in the OP.

I'm okay with you not understanding if you want to be pedantic.

Stheno · 28-05-2014 09:31PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

What would be the response be if we made wearing Hijabs in public punishable by 6 months in prison?

Isn't it illegal in France now?

edit: It is and punishable by a fine, different mind you from prison, and went to the European court to be challenged

Until recently it was also widely banned in Turkey

Arthur Beesley · 28-05-2014 09:31PM

Nodin wrote: »

List of reasons not to have it in Quatar

1- Treament of workers
2 - It's a conservative monarchy
3 - The heat
4 - The whole thing with the drink
5 - The dress code

Feel free to add.

6 - Corruption.

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:32PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

I'm okay with you not understanding if you want to be pedantic.

Nothing to do with pedantry - muslims are not a race..

You talk about the dress code in Qatar, which is straightforward enough, then its

I wonder how well it would go down, if western countries told Muslims to stop wearing Hijabs in public, or we'll lock you up because it's not our culture.

You could get 6 months in prison for wearing something they
don't like in Qatar, or saying something they don't like. It's okay though
because only white people can have racist opinions these days, everybody else
just has culture differences.

What relevance have "western countries" to it?

What relevance has "only white people............" to it?

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:33PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

6 - Corruption.

...which is the only reason its there in the first place, let's face it. Even Arabs find the Gulf hard going heat-wise.

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:41PM

Nodin wrote: »

Nothing to do with pedantry - muslims are not a race..

Several scholars consider Islamophobia as a form of racism.[17] A 2007 article in Journal of Sociology defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism and a continuation of anti-Asian and anti-Arab racism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia

ryan101 · 28-05-2014 09:43PM

Their country, their rules

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:43PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

Several scholars consider Islamophobia as a form of racism.[17] A 2007 article in Journal of Sociology defines Islamophobia as anti-Muslim racism and a continuation of anti-Asian and anti-Arab racism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia

That's a view, but it certainly isn't racism in the normal sense. Nor would a racist motive for banning muslim attire be any more acceptable than a sectarian one.

Now -

What relevance have "western countries" to the dress code in qatar?

What relevance has "only white people............" to it?

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:44PM

Nodin wrote: »

List of reasons not to have it in Quatar

1- Treament of workers
2 - It's a conservative monarchy
3 - The heat
4 - The whole thing with the drink
5 - The dress code

Feel free to add.

Number one is a strange one, how many people on this thread right now are wearing clothes/using electronics made in India/China in unfair working conditions (out of sight, out of mind). Agree with the rest though, plus they have no football history whatsoever.

Nino Brown · 28-05-2014 09:44PM

ryan101 wrote: »

Their country, their rules

Fair enough, so nobody should go.

ryan101 · 28-05-2014 09:45PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

Fair enough, so nobody should go.

I think it should be boycotted if the corrupt bid can be proven. That heat is not suitable for a world cup.

Nodin · 28-05-2014 09:46PM

Nino Brown wrote: »

Number one is a strange one, how many people on this thread right now are wearing clothes/using electronics made in India/China in unfair working conditions (out of sight, out of mind). .

One can hardly take action about or object to what one knows nothing whatsoever about.

Stheno · 28-05-2014 09:48PM

Nodin wrote: »

One can hardly take action about or object to what one knows nothing whatsoever about.

Ah now in fairness, think of all the publicity that FoxConn have gotten over the years, and they are one of the largest producers of a lot of electronic goods, including the iphone

Stinicker · 28-05-2014 09:48PM

I really wish we could end our addiction to Oil and Gas so that these bigots could just vanish back into the desert that they crawled out of. Their treatment of migrant workers is absolute disgrace and I know a Filipina girl working out there with the last 6 months and her life is horrible. Suicides are common amongst migrant workers and if a woman is raped by a local and she reports it she will be charged with adultery and lashed.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the wahhabis are the single biggest threat to world peace today and their brand of Islamic Fundamentalism is disgusting. Once our dependence of fossil fuels ends it will be fun to watch this place implode.

zetalambda · 28-05-2014 09:51PM

Check out the Islamic Sportswear section on this site. "move with modesty"

http://www.shukr.co.uk/Sportswear-C106.aspx

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