World Cup followers are restricted from doing in Qatar

The World Cup is equal components sporting occasion and worldwide celebration — and for a lot of followers, alcohol performs a big position. That is been true in stadiums, and in bars that open early or keep open late to indicate video games.


However the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is in contrast to any earlier than it. Simply two days earlier than the event's first match within the Muslim nation, officers made the shock announcement that followers will not be allowed to drink beer on the nation's eight World Cup stadiums — a reversal of a beforehand introduced coverage.


Alcohol is tightly regulated in Qatar, the place customs brokers are underneath orders to grab any booze guests attempt to convey into the nation.


It is one in every of many cultural clashes and potential authorized points that followers would possibly encounter in Qatar, significantly in the event that they're touring from extra open societies. This is a fast information:


This World Cup shall be drier


For an indication of how dramatic the shift in Qatar is, take into account that FIFA efficiently pressured Brazil to vary its federal legal guidelines to permit alcohol gross sales in its stadiums earlier than it hosted the 2014 World Cup — overturning a ban that had been enacted as a result of violence at its stadiums.


"Alcoholic drinks are a part of the FIFA World Cup, so we'll have them," then-FIFA secretary common Jerome Valcke stated again in 2012. "Excuse me if I sound a bit conceited however that is one thing we can't negotiate."


However that was then. In Qatar, common followers will not have entry to alcohol at matches. Solely spectators within the stadiums' high-end luxurious suites may have easy accessibility to booze. Exterior of the stadiums, followers can nonetheless drink at particular World Cup gathering areas, or at specifically licensed eating places, bars, and inns across the nation.


Normally, the general public consumption of alcohol is illegitimate in Qatar — an offense that may convey as much as six months in jail and a effective of greater than $800, in accordance with the Library of Congress. Anybody smuggling alcohol into the nation can resist three years in jail, the company stated.


Followers face non secular restrictions

Islam is the official faith of Qatar — and anybody discovered to be proselytizing for different religions or criticizing Islam "could also be criminally prosecuted," the State Division stated, in a factsheet about Qatar for World Cup guests.


It is also not protected to imagine you possibly can follow your religion brazenly: "Qatar permits some non-Muslim non secular follow in designated areas like Doha's Spiritual Complicated, however all faiths usually are not accommodated equally," the U.S. company stated.

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