I have quoted it before on this site, but it is because it is so good. Pablo Picasso wrote a short story and read it on any literary soiree at the home of Gertrude Stein in Paris. When the artist was finished, fell the so-called awkward silence. It was broken by Stein: ”Pablo, go home and paint.”
it is the footballer Kim Källström that the words fit great. The former landslagsmittfältaren have visited Qatar, and allowed themselves to be interviewed on a promotional site for the football world CUP in 2022.
the Arrangement has been a long enough criticism for, among other things, corruption and slave labor. The country has made some progress in a democratic direction, but continues, with the organization Human Rights Watch’s words, to ”discriminate against migrants, women, and LGBTQ people”.
and human rights appear, however, not to worry Källström significantly. The emirate has ”things to improve”, he says, but it is also working very hard to achieve this: ”People may be sceptical, but I have had a very nice time here and it has been an eye-opener – sometimes you should not believe everything you read in the media.”
It is nice to Källströms eyes have been opened during the visit in Qatar, but what was it he saw?
It is certainly true, but what exactly is it that we must not believe about visiting Qatar? That the so-called ”kafala”-system means that the worker ends up in slavlika conditions to their employer? To sharia law, and that homosexual acts and adultery, are punished by imprisonment, flogging or even death?
That freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom of assembly is restricted and that independent political parties are not allowed, for example, the Amnesty reports?
opened during the visit in Qatar, but what was it he saw? What a view was allowed from the air-conditioned hotel room? In particular: What did he not?
An image that pops up in your mind imagines the old Carriage-president Hans Ericson was enjoyed in the sun during their visit to the dictator Franco’s Spain for the new year, 1975; he saw enough, nor not very much suffering by the drink from his poolkant.
soon tells us that he has become proficient uppsnurrad and misquoted by the qatari world CUP-the machinery. Before that happens, it is just, to quote Gertrude Stein: Kim, go home and practice free kicks.
