Lauren Booth – Qatari Women Speak Out – Exclusive

			Santa Monica, I pray this finds you well, I'm blessed. Today I'm in a cutlery kitchen. It occurred
to me that the Khatri women are invisible from their own story. And they choose it that way. And
that is something really hard for us Westerners to get our heads around, some sisters have given me
permission to meet them. And for them to tell you their stories and their way of life, share some of
that with you.
		

			I'm going to try not to turn into David Attenborough here, because there is a propensity for
Western, even a Muslim like myself to come in and go here today, we examine the lessers, 14 cancer
every woman in her natural environment, and be really patronizing. So what I'm going to try and do
is let these incredible talented women tell their own stories in the hope that you will have a
flavor of something different, and a new way of looking at them or some way of life as a catering
and adding value to our country. By the way, my. My field is, I'm working as an commercial analyst,
so we can do whatever we want. I think that we have our freedom.
		

			For us, I go with the Abrahamic books, you know, the people of Abrahamic faith, okay? That
		

			a homosexual relationship to women, a man and a man and a woman and a woman is sinful.
		

			Is the society free from sin? No, there are sins similar to you know, alcohol,
		

			drugs, murder. However, for us, as Muslim society, and I think my sister zero degree, Islam looks at
the well being of the society, if the individual will harm the society, that individual needs to be
called out. Okay? I don't think the modern Western society had that value. Being a Muslim, being
different. Being a Christian, I think if we're going to go by the book, this is prone upon, and it's
a big sin
		

			is there's no way that we can lead
		

			the Christianity being a Jew, or being a Muslim, right, or a man or a woman or any given pay.
		

			Now, what this putter asked out of them, they simply said,
		

			he cannot show public affection, that's about it, they're free to do whatever they please behind
closed doors, and we're not here to say that we don't have some of them within our community. It is
there it is, we will have some of them, Allah knows best. But if this is happening behind closed
doors, the private business and it's not up for us to do
		

			they uphold the individualized, the individual, right, and even if that led to the destruction of
the, of the society, and we are seeing now, you know, I think the West has the glass home, they
don't start throwing stones at others, you know, you know, broken families, homelessness,
homelessness, I think, and you know, that whoever you are, with a man and a man, when a man or a
woman or whatever, it's illegal to stop, it's a law for us. And our laws are derived from our
religion. This is the source of our laws. And they came for laid the football not to do any
advertisement. And so the XFL was a you know, he had a statement, I think, for legitimate reason, or
		

			oppress people. And he was, you know, prosecuted very hardly by the media and he was under scrutiny
for quite some time Yeah.
		

			However, we are humans, you know, we love humor, we love love, it's part of our religion, you know,
it's, you know, smiling on each other face is an act of charity. So, for us, we are very laid back
very,
		

			you know, easygoing people and I think everybody who visited Tata, and I'm seeing loads of YouTube
videos, people are expressing their gratitude, and they were surprised, you know, like, they had
different perception from the media, the horrible media coverage that done over many, many years.
And I think, you know, I don't know throw this out in the media. Try
		

			To scare people.
		

			I had no accommodation, I had to check out at the fan, the fan village, and I had to
		

			check out the fan village and I can't get into the next apartment with my mate Louis in two or 3pm
tomorrow. And I had a beautiful Qatari man reaching out to me.
		

			His father and himself, kind of pick me up from the metro station and forth tonight, I am camping
out in the Qatari desert.
		

			I've never just by a stranger
		

			what this Western media about Qatar, and also many need, and these people put me up. So it's one of
the kindest gestures it's ever happened to me. I can't believe it. I think once anybody came and so
how the country is and how the people are, they will go back home with a very amazing, it's been an
amazing morning while Sharla
		

			with my Qatari sisters, unless you're married to a Muslim woman, or you're the child of a Muslim
woman you won't get to know us. We have our laughter and our dancing and our tears and our joy in
our private spaces with those we love and who love us. And today's video is a small taste of the
personality of some people who are happy and if it frustrates you can't see us, then I hope you'll
look at that into yourself and think about really what privacy means love your message
		

			that there
		

			is a real cultural moment of our culture there. Where are my shoes?