An ambassador for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been slammed after describing homosexuality as a “damage in the mind” in an interview – only two weeks before the opening of the soccer tournament
Highlighting concerns about the conservative country’s treatment of gays and lesbians, former Qatari national team player Khalid Salman told a German reporter in an interview that being gay is “haram” – forbidden in Arabic – and that he has a problem with children seeing gay people.
