Rod Stewart refused to perform at the World Cup in Qatar for ethical reasons.
The English interpreter (Highgate, 77 years old) has now told it in an interview with
The Sunday Times
newspaper .
“They offered me more than a million dollars 15 months ago to play me.
I turned it down.
It did not seem right to me to go ”, he has affirmed.
"And the Iranians should also stop supplying them with weapons," he added.
Stewart is known for his political commitment and solidarity, a few months ago he welcomed a family of Ukrainian refugees into his house.
According to what he told the British newspaper
The Mirror
, he was in charge of looking for them and paying for housing, sustenance and education for the family's children.
The interpreter of
Da Ya think I'm Sexy
is not the first to position himself against this sporting event.
Less than a week before the first matches start, there are several well-known faces who have called for a boycott of the great football event for the violation of human rights exercised by the Qatari regime in matters such as women's rights or the LGTBI collective.
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The English singer Dua Lipa denied this week the rumors that insisted that she would be in charge of opening the sporting event in Qatar.
She did so with a message on her Instagram in which she denied that such a performance had ever been on the table, adding that she will visit the country when it "respects all the human rights that she promised to uphold when they won the right to celebrate." the tournament".
In Spain, the popular
streamer
Ibai Llanos has made public his resignation from participating in the World Cup, being very critical of the Qatari regime and the whitening campaign that this event may entail.
“The opportunity arose for me to go on the plane of the Spanish soccer election to Qatar and well, I was going to record content [...] but it doesn't come out of my balls and I'm not going to do it.
Come on, I made the decision weeks ago, it's not that I made it today, but I'm not going to do it, ”Llanos announced on his Twitch channel.
"Do you know the number of sponsors, money, whitening towards Qatar that there is a place in the World Cup?" He denounced in his message.
In Qatar, being homosexual is illegal and has come to be punishable by public death.
Currently, he is punishable by seven years in prison.
Former soccer player Khalid Salman, ambassador of the Qatar World Cup, said in which they will tolerate LGTBI visitors during the event, but that they "will have to adapt to the rules."
The country has a system of male guardianship, whereby women depend their entire lives on a male guardian, be it a father, brother, grandfather or uncle or, if married, her husband.
In addition, the construction of the World Cup infrastructure has been achieved thanks to an army of low-skilled immigrants who have worked in semi-slavery conditions.
According to a 2021 Amnesty International report, more than 15,000 people have lost their lives in the construction sites.
Guardian
reduced the figure to 6,500.
The Qatari authorities have neither confirmed nor denied this claim.
This news continues to fuel the controversy over the suitability of holding a sporting event in a country where human rights are not respected.
Celebrities who have agreed to lend their image to whitewash the event are being criticized.
It happened in Spain when the official song of the selection was presented, performed by the singer Chanel Terrero, the last Spanish representative in Eurovision.
And it has happened at an international level with ex-soccer player David Beckham.
It is estimated that the latter has been paid 175 million euros to be the country's world ambassador for the next 10 years.
For the moment, the agreement is serving more to cloud the image of the former British footballer than to improve that of Qatar.