In her Facebook post, Germans to account for their distinct commitment to freedoms, the trans and gay community, and their sensitivity to democracy in connection with the World Cup in Qatar
"Dear Federal Chancellor Herr Olaf Scholz,
Dear President of the Football Association, Herr Bernd Neuendorf,
Dear Federal Captain, Herr Hans-Dieter Flick!
Just a year and a half ago, in June 2021, during the European Championship group match between the German and Hungarian national football teams, the capital of Bavaria, Munich, was dressed in rainbow colors and the Allianz Arena was lit up with the colors of the rainbow.
The stands were bathed in rainbow flags, the goalkeeper of the German national team, Manuel Neuer, entered the field wearing a rainbow-colored team captain's armband.
You politicized the entire match, overriding the thousand-year-old Bavarian-Hungarian relations. They demonstrated that the supposed harm to the LGBTQ+ community, which we caused them by banning their "sensitizing" activities from Hungarian nurseries, kindergartens and schools, is so important to you that it overrides everything: sportsmanship, friendship, allyship, hospitality and also politeness.
On top of everything, a provocateur waving an LGBTQ flag ran onto the pitch during the Hungarian national anthem, which was otherwise accompanied by a whistle concert. We have taken note that your national football team has changed its national colors to rainbow colors because it better expresses their commitment, more accurately reflects their identity and at the same time their loyalty.
Now is the time to express their distinct commitment to the trans and gay community in the same way at the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Their team captain, and even their entire team, should wear rainbow-colored armbands and a symbol expressing solidarity with the persecuted gays in Qatar.
Demand that stadiums be lit in rainbow colors and that the audience be provided with rainbow flags. This is all the more their duty, as from now on, in protest against the Russian dictatorship, they intend to purchase oil from the Qataris, who obviously operate an impeccable democracy.
And since you obviously stand on moral grounds this time as well, which you have ostentatiously declared in relation to us Hungarians in recent years - for example at the height of the migration crisis - I have no doubt that this time you will firmly stand up for the rights of LGBTQ+ people who are truly persecuted in Qatar.
If this did not happen, it would prove that you are cowards and unmanly, and that your demonstration last year was nothing more than your intention to humiliate us.
But you humiliated yourselves. Not for the first time.
Coward people have no homeland. Your country, Germany, has been there for a long time."
Photo: MTI/EPA
