“The World triumphs over smear campaigns,” headlined the Qatari newspaper Al-Raya, Sunday, October 2, by denouncing “twelve years of disinformation campaigns in the pay of people who want to tarnish” the reputation of the country. Also according to the newspaper, their goal is to defeat “the dream of organizing a World Cup for the first time in Arab territory” and which will be the pride not only of Qatar but “of all Arabs”.
“We must denounce the hypocrisy of the West and its media outlets […] whose only concern is to spoil the first World Cup which takes place in Arab and Muslim territory”, the Algerian daily abounds Al-Khabar.
“A bad racist signal”
“Suddenly, a few weeks before the start of the World Cup, there is a surge of conscience among some local elected officials in France”, also comments on the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. “According to the boycott supporters, those who authorize the broadcasting of matches in the public space will be in some way accomplices in the crime”, adds the log. And this even though Qatar “help solve the problem [de la crise énergétique] by increasing its production [gazière]”.
For its part, the Qatari daily Al-Sharq published a column by the researcher and Mo specialist