Gift shop decorated for Valentine s Day (Source: Watania.net, February 3, 2020)
Media Advisor To The Qatari Foreign Ministry: Adoption Of Western Customs Harms Our Society s Values
Na ima Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Mutawa a wrote: Many of us have begun adopting Western customs, behaviors and occasions that have nothing to do with us. We adopt them and even encourage our children to do so. [I refer to customs like] celebrating [the Christian] New Year [by] holding dance parties at home and waiting for midnight in order to scream and shout [in excitement] and [only] then eat supper; or celebrating Halloween in October [by] doing everything [the Westerners] do: wearing strange costumes and scary masks, holding frightening competitions and [decorating] our homes with images of demons, skulls and the like.