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qatarperegrine) wrote2005-08-24 10:22 am
qatarperegrine) wrote2005-08-24 10:22 am
Scandal du jour
Earlier this month, a Dubai-based magazine confusingly called Al Jazeera reported that Prince Tameem, the Crown Prince (i.e. heir apparent) of Qatar, had been kicked out of a gay bar in London for drunk and disorderly conduct.
The article is no longer on their website (here is where it was), but a cached version is still available through Google: Qatari Crown Prince banned from G.A.Y nightclub. It claims to have gotten the info from islamonline.net (Qaradawi's website), but I can no longer find the story there.
I don't particularly care if Prince Tamim is gay, but I'm intrigued by the fact that the story is no longer on aljazeera.com. I'm guessing they were *ahem* asked to remove it, since they clearly do normally keep old stories online -- I know this because I finally resorted to searching their archives for "gay" and found this truly hilarious story from January about the U.S. building a gay bomb. That, of course, convinced me that the site was not a reputable source for news, but then I realized that the gay bomb story was carried by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets. So who knows?
All in all, that was one of my more entertaining web surfing adventures. It sure took my mind off this *$#^ presentation I have to give in 45 minutes.
The article is no longer on their website (here is where it was), but a cached version is still available through Google: Qatari Crown Prince banned from G.A.Y nightclub. It claims to have gotten the info from islamonline.net (Qaradawi's website), but I can no longer find the story there.
I don't particularly care if Prince Tamim is gay, but I'm intrigued by the fact that the story is no longer on aljazeera.com. I'm guessing they were *ahem* asked to remove it, since they clearly do normally keep old stories online -- I know this because I finally resorted to searching their archives for "gay" and found this truly hilarious story from January about the U.S. building a gay bomb. That, of course, convinced me that the site was not a reputable source for news, but then I realized that the gay bomb story was carried by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets. So who knows?
All in all, that was one of my more entertaining web surfing adventures. It sure took my mind off this *$#^ presentation I have to give in 45 minutes.