Qatar’s UN Ambassador said God should curse gay people in recently revealed tweets

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Two months before the World Cup is set to take place in Qatar, the country’s ambassador to the United Nations deleted her Twitter account after homophobic and antisemitic tweets she posted throughout the past decade were discovered.

According to The Jerusalem Post, Hend Al-Muftah’s tweets came to light when the organization UN Watch, which monitors the United Nations, sent a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Federico Villegas expressing “grave concern” that Muftah had been nominated for chair of the UN Forum on Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law.

The letter discussed dozens of Muftah’s tweets touting “racist tropes about Jews, bigoted attacks on gays, and disinformation and conspiracy theories about Western societies and liberalism.”

In the tweets, Muftah reportedly called on God to put a curse on gay people and claimed that “defending human rights has nothing to do with gay rights!”

And in response to the UN advocating for the rights of LGBTQ Africans, Muftah wrote…

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