Barcelona shirts BANNED in Saudi Arabia with possible A$200,000 fine and 15-year prison sentence

[Mohsin]

Barcelona shirts which feature the Qatar Airways logo are said to be outlawed as tensions between Saudi Arabia and Qatar continue to boil over.

The dramatic law change comes after Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Yemen and the Maldives sensationally cut off all ties with its neighbour this week after accusing Qatar of supporting extremist groups. Qatar have rejected the claims.

Barcelona sponsor Qatar Airways are one of many Qatari entities blacklisted by Saudi Arabia and fans wearing Lionel Messi or Neymar shirts could become caught in the political crossfire.
http://dillapress.com/news/middle-e...200-000-fine-and-15-year-prison-sentence.html

 

[XamarCade]

Lol

 

[black]

lol this can't be real, the risk-reward just doesn't pan out. Then again, they're Arabs

 

[SomaliWadaniSoldier]

Backward arabs

 

[Nightline Kid]

How far do you think they'll take this? I've heard people speculating that they'll invade Qatar

 

[Ras]

They won't invade Qatar unless Doha allies itself with Iran, which it won't do.

However it'll probably keep escalating until Saudi's are tired of being jealous of Qatar's influence in the world.

Apart from wishing they had Al Jazeera; the fact that a tiny country next door which they should've dominated like Bahrain can actually decide it's own foreign policies annoys them.

The Saudi's are playing with fire here and the Iranians and Turks will probably use this opportunity to blow this whole thing out of proportion. Both those countries miss the days when Arabs were beneath them.

 

[Abdalla]

Watch Qatar banning Arsenal and Man city shirts. What a childish geopolitical crisis.

 

[Mohsin]

Saudi Kingdom is Jealous. Qatar World cup 2022

 

[Hassan Garguute Buldanana]