Current Events > US journalist who tweeted himself in pride shirt in Qatar dies in Qatar

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https://twitter.com/grantwahl/status/1594750696137658368

https://twitter.com/ziplamak/status/1601383801565097986

https://twitter.com/jacksettleman/status/1601397864051396613

Fifa is so damn corrupt

I wish every team had gone out with the LGBT armbands

I know Fifa threatened fines and yellow cards but what are they gonna do if every team in the tourament did it?

damn, RIP to him.

Well thats not good. RIP

FIFA: "Nobody could have seen this coming!"

religious fanatics killed him, this is the world we live in now

The comments on that first tweet are fucking vile. This is exactly why a country like Qatar should never host the world cup again.

Damn. Wild.

sad but im not surprised

this would have also happened to the dude from Ecuador too if he didnt make a friendship video with one of the Qataris

Kind of crazy he just tweeted 5 hours ago and now he's dead

And sadly people still won't give a shit and keep on watching the world cup, no matter what happens.

Did He collapse at the game?

Aressar posted...

And sadly people still won't give a shit and keep on watching the world cup, no matter what happens.

Well yeah if slavery didn't make them stop watching then killing a gay ally certainly won't.

Abolish fifa.

Not sure why people do utterly dangerous stuff like that. Sure you want to make a statement, but you should also value your life too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQh-xtWcAw

https://twitter.com/ussoccer/status/1601401947692863489

Holy crap I remember that viral tweet about his shirt. Thats horrifying.

Letron_James posted...

Dude goes to a country and doesn't follow the rules. There's no difference between this and. Britney Griner. Americans think they can just go to any place, do whatever they want and won't face reprocussions for it. It's not brave what he did, it was stupid. Having lived in that shit hole country for almost a year, I can tell you firsthand that EVERYONE even Arabs from other countries know not to mess around with the laws there, they are unforgiving, harsh, cruel and will do whatever they please to you. I don't agree with their stance on gay issues obviously, and they have no right to potentially poison some dude to death because he wore a shirt, but you poke the wrong people at the wrong time and this is what happens.

https://i.imgur.com/3v9bENX.gif

Posts here and elsewhere that he was 'stupid' or got what he was asking for (eg 'should've followed their rules') completely miss the point

RIP

Doe posted...

The comments on that first tweet are fucking vile. This is exactly why a country like Qatar should never host the world cup again.

The comments on the other two are no picnic either. I don't know what's worse, the people saying he deserved what happened to him or the people bringing up that he was vaccinated and taking the opportunity to spread anti-vax bullshit by saying the vaccine killed him. They're both disgusting.

Letron_James posted...

Dude goes to a country and doesn't follow the rules. There's no difference between this and. Britney Griner. Americans think they can just go to any place, do whatever they want and won't face reprocussions for it. It's not brave what he did, it was stupid. Having lived in that shit hole country for almost a year, I can tell you firsthand that EVERYONE even Arabs from other countries know not to mess around with the laws there, they are unforgiving, harsh, cruel and will do whatever they please to you. I don't agree with their stance on gay issues obviously, and they have no right to potentially poison some dude to death because he wore a shirt, but you poke the wrong people at the wrong time and this is what happens.

shut the fuck up

Fuck

Everyone in FIFA and everyone in the Qatari government need to go to The Hague

Rip

ktownslayer16 posted...

Did He collapse at the game?

Twitter and TMZ report that his brother believes that he was murdered because of his gay pride clothing

UnfairRepresent posted...

Fifa is so damn corrupt

I wish every team had gone out with the LGBT armbands

I know Fifa threatened fines and yellow cards but what are they gonna do if every team in the tourament did it?

They couldn't do shit if every team that supports it did it. If they did all it would do is invalidate the world cup to a lot of people. Fines and yellow cards for something completely unrelated to the game would hurt FIFA badly.

Calwings posted...

RIP

The comments on the other two are no picnic either. I don't know what's worse, the people saying he deserved what happened to him or the people bringing up that he was vaccinated and taking the opportunity to spread anti-vax bullshit by saying the vaccine killed him. They're both disgusting.

what bugs me about those is all the horrible tweets have hundreds of likes

All the nice normal ones have like 3-20

I really hope it's bots because the alternative is so fucked people. People hunting down and spreading tweets about dead gay people just to troll their family in horrible ways.

Qatar killed an American There needs to be severe consequences for their entire nation

rip

CruelBuffalo posted...

https://twitter.com/ussoccer/status/1601401947692863489

"Thoughts and prayers"

Calwings posted...

RIP

The comments on the other two are no picnic either. I don't know what's worse, the people saying he deserved what happened to him or the people bringing up that he was vaccinated and taking the opportunity to spread anti-vax bullshit by saying the vaccine killed him. They're both disgusting.

Oh for fuck's sake.

See, THIS is why Twitter needs to die.
Musk isn't killing it fast enough. >_>

Sorry for his family. This is fuckin tragic.

What would be the rough equivalent in 'Merica!? - showing up without a gun?

Fifa should be held accountable for this

HylianFox posted...

"Thoughts and prayers"

This all happened right now. You think US soccer should accuse someone (or a country) without evidence. Its all super fishy tho

Yall realize the shirt thing was weeks ago right

People who say Darwin Award in the Twitter comments and on Reddit

WOW.

>Dude literally could very well have been murdered by a fascist government.

Twits: "lol, that's what you get for being an idiot herp derp!"

LightHawKnight posted...

Not sure why people do utterly dangerous stuff like that. Sure you want to make a statement, but you should also value your life too.

This.

LightHawKnight posted...

Not sure why people do utterly dangerous stuff like that. Sure you want to make a statement, but you should also value your life too.

This. Not every country has free speech. I would hope every country is like America where you can make fun of its leaders or say stuff that goes against the government. But not every country is like that.

Or maybe, just maybe, a tiny little blob of oil-rich land run by fascists shouldn't have been picked to host the goddamn World Cup in the first place, knowing full-well that they'd attract people from across the globe that they wouldn't exactly agree with or even tolerate.

Demanding that the whole world has to bend to the whims of a piece of shit country like Qatar is just insane beyond reason.

LightHawKnight posted...

Not sure why people do utterly dangerous stuff like that. Sure you want to make a statement, but you should also value your life too.

What about the lives of the gay Qataris? How do we value those?

You would think an event as big as the World Cup would be under constant heavy surveillance. Do we have footage of how he "collapsed"?

His brother said he was, for the most part, healthy before he left to be there.

Vicious_Dios posted...

You would think an event as big as the World Cup would be under constant heavy surveillance. Do we have footage of how he "collapsed"?

His brother said he was, for the most part, healthy before he left to be there.

I'd want an autopsy done by an American.

But it's possible that it's just a freak coincidence. My aunt who was otherwise completely healthy just suddenly collapsed and died in the middle of cooking dinner. Later turns out she had an aneurysm that burst.

But the chance of foul play is big enough that I'd want an autopsy here regardless.

Calwings posted...

the people saying he deserved what happened to him

out of the two things. i probably say the bolded thing is worse. definitely didn't deserve to die.

HylianFox posted...

Or maybe, just maybe, a tiny little blob of oil-rich land run by fascists shouldn't have been picked to host the goddamn World Cup in the first place, knowing full-well that they'd attract people from across the globe that they wouldn't exactly agree with or even tolerate.

Demanding that the whole world has to bend to the whims of a piece of shit country like Qatar is just insane beyond reason.

Their country their rules sadly

Tourists can easily choose not to go if they don't like how they do things

It's exactly why my wife refuses to visit the Middle East

"Wahl was covering his eighth World Cup. He wrote Monday on his website that he had visited a medical clinic while in Qatar.
"My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you,'' Wahl wrote. "What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort."

SO qatar coulda killed him, obviously possible with highly corrupt government.

But...it seems possible he DID collapse.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/35221443/american-soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-dies-49-qatar

test for thallium, or digitoxin
maybe also TTX