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Islamophobic French cartoon causes uproar on social media, depicts Qatari football team as terrorists ahead 2022 World Cup

by Muslim News Nigeria
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Islamophobic French cartoon causes uproar on social media, depicts Qatari football team as terrorists ahead 2022 World Cup

A French cartoon has caused outrage on social media for its “racist and Islamophobic” portrayal of the Qatar national football team ahead of the World Cup 2022 set to kick off in Doha later this month.

Published last month by the French newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, the caricature uses stereotypical depictions of Arab men as long-bearded, angry, masked and carrying all kinds of weapons from machetes and guns to rocket launchers. A player with the famous number 10 shirt was portrayed wearing a suicide vest.

The satirical weekly has been criticised by many Twitter users who suggested the illustrations reflect a racist pattern in western criticism of Arabs and Qataris ahead of the World Cup, namely in the French press.

“France gonna France,” one user said.

Another day, another instance of French racism & xenophobia against Arabs as the FIFA World Cup Qatar 🇶🇦 2022 is just around the corner

France’s 🇫🇷 weekly Le Canard Enchaîné @canardenchaine published caricature of Qatari footballers dressed as terroristshttps://t.co/hH6jhdwNVM https://t.co/czepuYcoLg

— Saad Abedine (@SaadAbedine) November 8, 2022

Among those who flocked to criticise the cartoon was the Qatari Minister of State and President of the Qatar National Library, Hamad Al-Kawari, who urged the paper to at least show “some sportsmanship”.

“Even harsh satire is welcome!!! But Le Canard enchaîné decided to resort to lies, hatred and resentment to attack Qatar and denigrate it,” Al-Kawari said.

French newspaper @canardenchaine publicly shares and promotes racist sentiments (in a caricature) towards Qatar and its national team. This is disgusting. https://t.co/LQcUbxaQMg

— سارة ح. الأنصاري 🇵🇸 (@sxalansari) November 6, 2022

‘Anti-Muslim’

The newspaper was also criticised by some for Islamophobic undertones in the cartoons. For example, some users pointed to the drawings of Muslim women on the front page of the October issue, where they are depicted wearing a full-body black covering.

“It is not new to them, as they have already mocked and insulted the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in almost the same manner,” one user said, referring to previous controversial cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in the French media.

“A despicable cartoon published by Le Canard Enchaîné that exposes its true racism and anti-Muslim hate,” said another person.

نشرت Le Canard Enchaîné الفرنسية كاريكتور حقير يظهر عنصريتها الفاضحة وكراهية الإسلام
يصف #قطر على أنها إمارة استبدادية ومنتخبها إرهابيون. #قطر_2022 pic.twitter.com/04T0iDNwtm

— فـــهــ ـد (@fahadq801) November 7, 2022

The online reactions to the cartoons come amid growing frustrations among Qataris over mounting criticism of the country’s alleged human rights abuses in international media ahead of the World Cup.

Last week, Qatar’s Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani condemned what he called “hypocrisy” by western countries in their “attacks” against Doha.

He said the criticism was being made by a “minority of people”, with critical European countries amongst those buying the most tickets.

“Among the ten countries that bought the most tickets, we find European countries like France,” Al Thani said.

Several French cities, including Paris, announced earlier this year that they would not broadcast the tournament on large screens as a protest against the Qatari record on the environment and human rights.

However, despite this criticism, France has signed a partnership with Qatar to provide security personnel at the World Cup, a decision that has attracted some criticism from French media.

 

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