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Melech

"Qatar has caused contoversy in Germany after its embassy covered up a nude sculpture at a historic Berlin villa.

You could be forgiven for thinking the tiny Gulf state would want all the friends it can get as it faces a stand-off with its neighbours in the Middle East.

But Berliners were horrified when the long-awaited restoration of the city’s historic Villa Cale was unveiled by the Qatari embassy this week.

A frieze which dominates the main facade of the building has been covered over with the German and Qatari flags — because it features a nude female figure considered offensive to Qatari values.

The Gulf state plans to use the villa as a diplomatic guest house and centre for Arab culture.

But the restoration has provoked fury among Berliners who say it is insensitive to their own culture."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/16/qatar-covers-nudes-historic-berlin-villa/

so much about respecting other  cultures :laughga:

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Morphine Prince

Is this part of their embassy? Or are they just using it temporarily? 

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It's on german soil if it's on the embassy land, they can't do that lol

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River

inb4 now Germans will riot naked next to them, they actually can do it :selena:

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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Melech
1 hour ago, River said:

inb4 now Germans will riot naked next to them, they actually can do it :selena:

Germans are always naked 

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Melech
2 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

Is this part of their embassy? Or are they just using it temporarily? 

It's international territory. But it's an historic building and part of German history and culture. 

If Germans put a naked woman on a historic building in Qatar everyone would get super mad. 

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