God Should Curse Gay People, Tweeted Qatar’s UN Ambassador
Two months before Qatar is to host the World Cup, the country’s ambassador to the UN deleted her Twitter account after homophobic and anti-Semitic tweets were discovered.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Hend Al-Muftah’s tweets were revealed when UN Watch, an organization which monitors the United Nations, sent a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Federico Villegas expressing “grave concern” that Muftah had been nominated for chair of the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law.
The letter discussed dozens of Muftah’s tweets touting “racist tropes about Jews, bigoted attacks on gays, and disinformation and conspiracy theories about Western societies and liberalism,” according to LGBTQ Nation. Muftah reportedly tweeted that God should put a curse on gay people and claimed that “defending human rights has nothing to do with gay rights!” In response to the UN advocating for the rights of LGBTQ+ Africans, Muftah wrote, “Stay away from the Middle East and Arab countries, keep your rights for your people.”
Muftah also called Jewish people “our enemies.” They “dominated, tyrannized, and ruled the world” because they “focused their investments in industry and the media.”
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer tweeted about the situation, calling Muftah “Qatar’s Ambassador of Hate.” Neuer also noted, “It’s a big deal that Qatar’s Ambassador deleted her account. In 2016, she was named the most influential social media person in Qatar. After thousands of tweets since 2011, she had 73,000 followers.”
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