David Beckham has come under fire for his promotional work for the Qatar World Cup.
Beckham is one of the faces of the Qatar World Cup, helping to promote the tournament in November.
However, Dr Nas Mohamed has called out the former footballer in a personal letter obtained by The Independent.
“You are stamping out hope for the LGBT community in Qatar,” said Mohamed.
“You show up… take money and look the other way. Furthermore, you send a message that there is truly no chance for us to escape our current persecution and live freely,” added Mohamed.
Mohamed was the first openly gay man in Qatar.
every man has his price. Same with Gary Neville.
What’s he doing wrong. Do you think he is thinking about LGBT
More better things to think about. He is sure to do a good job on football
That is precisely WHY he’s wrong to support the WC
Human rights ARE way more important than footy.
Well said 👏👏
Im disapointed in Beckham. He is rich like crazy but still wants more.
Jealous. Nothing new to say. What a sad situation.
Im disapointed in Beckham. So greedy.
No it’s his job he is an exfootballer like 99% of these pundits. Pull yourself together someone has to do it
Qatar is too hot so nobody there plays football – they BOUGHT this World Cup with corrupt oil money. Hundreds of immigrants died building the stadiums, and were treated appallingly. Qatar treats women like possessions and gays like scum, they are a backward nation that does not permit public dissent. This whole World Cup is a disgrace and I hope it flops.
Preach Brother
Beckham has no responsibility towards this minority group, along with his wife who tries to sing or anybody else in this world.
I’m with David.
This sick, dysfunctional, mentally ill group should be banished from ‘normal’ people – imagine breathing the same air as this scum.
You are not normal, just very sad.
You are a turd
What a c*nt you are
How fickle folk are. He was virtually canonised by the public last week for queuing up to see the coffin of a deceased monarch, now because he is going out and continuing to make a living he is demonised. Get a grip people, regardless to the size of his bank account he has the right to work wherever he wants. I doubt for a second the first thing that entered his mind is the LGBT+ community or women’s groups. People demanding he does not do this or suddenly deciding he is now persona non grata are taking away his right to choose because it does not fit with their agenda!
In the same way as SS guards had the right to work in Auswitz
Well said 👏👏
Its about sport not anything political, just a football competition!¡!
Murf Honey, you need to read Daniel’s comments above. This is waaay bigger than someone who has the ‘right to choose’ OR just LGBT.
You need to educate yourself before making a fool of yourself with such ill informed comments.
Get a grip???? For Christ’s sake look at their human ‘rights’ record. They are an abomination and Beckham (who bless him is not educated either) has just cruised in there to take some easy money, not realising how damaging his incredible influence of making these
Monsters ‘acceptable’ is. I suspect some of his advisors must have squirmed over this surely?
Would the more appropriate criticism not be one levelled at FIFA itself? They should never have considered the country as a viable contender for the tournament in the first place. Having done so it is now hopeless to pick on individual players/ex players for their support. Then you have to upbraid every single team and player going to Qatar.
Are you for real Jasmine? You’re the f…ing scum.
Oh yeah and boycotting this tournament is going to make them change if only it was that easy .get a grip people lgbt will go on fine so let’s just enjoy the games
Shame on Beckham. A Couple of brain cells with some human decency would say no im not doing this and for people going on about him queuing big bloody deal. You’d think he’d saved someone’s life.
A lot of very valid comments above .
It’s about time people stopped forcing politic, groups what ever they are and watched a game of football. This is why gay men won’t come out in sport because of all of the animosity. It has to stop, David Beckham is a good man if he did this for nothing someone would still find something wrong, so just get on with it.
I’m a little bit sick of all this crap. I’m for equal rights and treating everyone fairly and I put everybody in this group. People are different all over and I accept that unconditionally and I treat all of them the same.
I don’t go out and protest on Race, LBGTQIA, religion, veganism or any other cause but I support their rights to protest and freedom of speech.
I am a white male, heterosexual, and a christian but I don’t force my life choices on others but I do ask that they respect my rights in return.
The issue for me is I don’t see it coming back my way. I see males labeled as sexist, heterosexuals labeled as homophobic, Christian’s persecuted for their beliefs and treated differently, and I see vegans trying to force their ideas upon society.
Enough is enough. About time we all get along.
F all faggots
I’m quite surprised really that DB has put himself in this kind of situation. But him and VB normally distance themselves away from any kind of conflict especially if it has a chance of it becoming political.
If we weren’t to engage with countries with poor human rights records there would be very few countries we could engage with while others would.