• Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    [Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.

    * hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.

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      6 hours ago

      You must have forgotten about why people were so mad at qatar in particular a while back. Remember how many workers died building the stadiums there for the world cup? If you’re american i can understand you weren’t aware of it since european football isn’t exactly popular in america, but it was a huge deal over here with people protesting.

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      14 hours ago

      Are they democracies? No. Do they respect human rights? Also no.

      I don’t care as much about them as I care about pointing out the hypocrisy of my people. I have a thing against islam but that has nothing to do with this conversation.