This post explains a few things I found disconcerting with Musk and Kushner attending the World Cup in Qatar.
My personal connection and understanding of Qatar is through that of my father, a multimedia educational pioneer for decades, who had been contracted by the Queen to build a project meant to help prop up the strength of the Muslim family. My dad significantly broadened that scope being invited into multiple households, interviewing, and learning about what does and does not build great familial structures. The most common theme within strong families that was identified was the meal time traditions. One family interviewed did not eat until all members were seated at the dinner table. If that brother or sister was absent, they would search them out as nothing was more important than for the full family being seated and feasting together. That greatly differed from the families of the 9-11 hijackers he interviewed, so self-absorbed and fragmented, that the petulant youth had no familial bond, too much time and money on their hands, falling into vices and radicalization. That pattern isn’t all that different than the pathway all these GamerGate cultists turned mass shooters embark on, seeking out acceptance from abusers becoming worse because of it. The Saudi and Emerati 9-11 mass murderers on the surface came from affluent respectable households. That was more of a façade than truth.
Qatar isn’t Saudi Arabia. It isn’t the UAE, Iraq nor Egypt having never fallen fully under undue influence from the bloody house of Saud, the ruling family of which cousins MbS and MbZ both birthed from. They have their own government, an independent news outlet (Al-Jazeera) the others hate, their own oil and a queen pushing for incremental social change within a very closed society.
Back to the World Cup
After Kushner could not extort a deal to either refinance or outright purchase Trump Tower from, he got his corrupt father-in-law Donald Trump to side against Qatar, backing MbS’s successful coup, the Ritz-Carlton Shakedown, ignoring the killing of WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi who escaped the shakedown flying to Turkey, the military blockade of Qatar, and getting a secret nuclear and missile program approved for KSA, UAE and Egypt. Any of these issues would make Kushner less welcome in the country, clearly not among the invited noteworthy Qatar guests.
Musk on the other hand would not as of yet be seen as a pariah without hitching himself to Jared.
ALLLLL that money & Elon still has no class whatsoever. Who crashes the World Cup? This isn’t cousin Fred’s wedding, FFS.