AN ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as “damage in the mind”, just two weeks before the opening of the football tournament in the Gulf state.
Former Qatari footballer Khalid Salman told a German public broadcaster that being gay is “haram,” or forbidden in Arabic, and that he has a problem with children seeing gay people.
Excerpts of the television interview were shown on Monday night on ZDF’s news programme heute journal (today’s journal).
