Qatari academic says he is 'proud' that US reporter Grant Wahl was detained for dressed in a rainbow shirt prior to USA's game vs. Wales at the World Cup & questions: 'When will the westerners realize their values aren't universal?'
As per Dailymail, Wahl was attending the USA's first game of the World Cup against Wales on Monday and wore a black t-shirt with a circle in the colors of the rainbow wrapping around a soccer ball on the front, in support of the LGBTQ+ community. He took to Twitter to claim that he was initially refused entry to the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan. He also revealed that shortly after sending out his first tweet, security staff 'forcibly ripped his phone from his hands.'
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