FIFA World Cup: Multilingual preachers, QR codes being utilized in Qatar to popularise Islam amongst visiting soccer followers

Qatar, which is internet hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, has come beneath scrutiny for the assorted restriction and bans imposed on the World Cup stadiums. Besides, the Islamic nation has been drawing flak for using a wide range of methods to transform folks to Islam who’ve come to the nation to attend the World Cup. According to a current report, the Katara Cultural Village Mosque in Doha, Qatar’s capital, has turn out to be a hotspot for the proselytization of non-Muslim guests.

As per media studies, on the mosque, multilingual female and male preachers clarify Islam’s faith and ‘tolerance’ to vacationers. Visitors are being inspired to look at digital boards on Islam that are on show in additional than 30 languages and positioned in such a manner that it permits guests to view them on their telephones. In addition, books ‘introducing’ Islam in several languages are being distributed amongst the guests.

Furthermore, Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has erected a pavilion exterior the 2022 World cup venue, the place guests are being ‘introduced’ to Islam and its teachings.

The report additional means that the hadiths, that are phrases, actions, or habits of Prophet Muhammad, are discovered written on the partitions of streets to draw non-Muslim vacationers visiting Qatar to take pleasure in FIFA World Cup 2022.

Employees and preachers from the Qatar Guest Centre are stationed on the mosque’s entrance to advertise Islam to the Eid Charity Foundation. They welcome non-Muslims and reply their queries concerning the mosque. They additionally organize for guests to enter the mosque after prayers to ensure that them to turn out to be acquainted with the within atmosphere of a mosque.

Hotel rooms providing guests QR codes to ‘learn’ about Islam

Qatar has additionally made an effort to function Islam and Muslim tradition all through the primary week of the match with sayings and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad posted round Doha and translated into a number of languages together with English.

So a lot in order that the FIFA World cup inaugural ceremony had additionally begun with a feminine vocalist wearing a conventional burqa, a face overlaying outlawed in a number of European nations, reciting a Quranic verse.

According to a number of social media accounts, some resort rooms within the nation are additionally providing guests QR codes to find out about Islam, and foreigners visiting Qatar for the match have been invited to find out about Islamic apparel.

In resort rooms in Qatar, there’s a QR code that introduces the teachings of Islam, hadiths, and a easy definition of our religion. pic.twitter.com/NcHge7L48x

— Economy.pk (@pk_economy) November 21, 2022
Radical preacher Zakir Naik to evangelise Islam

How faith has grabbed the highlight amid the soccer match will also be evidenced by the truth that the novel Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has been reportedly ‘invited’ to evangelise Islam to soccer followers.

Recently, it was reported that Zakir Naik, the Islamic Preacher from India wished for monetary fraud and different crimes, reached Qatar to preach Islam. A video from 2016 went viral the place he was seen changing folks to Islam in Qatar. Though the video was outdated, there are speculations that his preaching on the sidelines of the FIFA World Cup 2022 could also be directed at conversions of visiting soccer followers.

After considerations have been raised by India, Qatar clarified that Naik was not prolonged any official invitation to attend the FIFA inaugural ceremony.

Football followers embrace Islam in Qatar

On November 22, a number of Islamist handles claimed in a tweet that over 500 folks (apparently vacationers visiting Qatar to take pleasure in FIFA World Cup 2022) have transformed to Islam. In the tweet, a pro-ISIS Islamic activist Majid Freeman wrote, “Allahu Akbar! We’ve heard from local daees in Qatar that 500+ people have embraced Islam recently.” Though no official media studies have been discovered to help the claims.

Furthermore, studies emerged {that a} Mexican fan embraced Islam in a mosque within the Katara cultural village in Doha, on the second day of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

On November 23, viral movies confirmed how a Brazilian household of six consisting of a father, mom, and 4 youngsters (3 women and a boy), was seen saying Shahadah (testimony of religion), prompted by the preacher.

یک خانواده برازیلی که برای تشویق تیم فوتبال این کشور در جام جهانی در دوحه بسر می‌برد، به دین اسلام مشرف شد.
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A Brazilian household converts to Islam throughout the World Cup in Qatar.#ArianaNews #FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022 #Brazil #Islam pic.twitter.com/MPImXMJH0i

— Ariana News (@ArianaNews_) November 23, 2022

Qatar gained the suitable to host the summer time World Cup in December 2010 in opposition to all odds in 50 levels celsius temperature, earlier than FIFA moved the World Cup to winter for the primary time in historical past to guard gamers from that warmth. The match is now being held within the small Arabian nation and about 1.2 million worldwide guests are anticipated in Qatar throughout the Nov 20- Dec 18 match.

It is notable right here that Qatar has been linked with Islamic terrorism and has been accused of spreading Wahabism by many sources. Its hyperlinks to quite a few organisations that fund the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Al Qaeda and many others have been highlighted in current occasions.