[Skybird]

And how do you guys comment on the author expressing quite opposing views by his visit in Quatar? Can you counter his claims, experiences, impressions?

Can we be so certain indeed that the mainstream medias' politically correct and always hypermoralistic view of Quatar indeed is representative for how it is there?

I neither attack your view, nor defend Quatar, as I said in the beginning; I do not know anything about Quatar (beside the endlessly repeated stories in the mainstream media), and thus have never formed anythign like a "opinion" on it. The media describe Quatar as "bad". But many people knowing it - and not only the Quataris themselves - describe it much more positively, thats the only pattern that I have identified. And for a Muslim country it is, despite the autocratic political system and Shariah law, surprisingly progressive.


BTW, on the football and the German team, my interest is almost nil. But that is almost completely due to the German team, the politics about and around it, and the corrupt business of FIFA.