Saudi official defame Kuwaiti minister for his Qatar visit

Doha: A Saudi official has launched a scathing and defamatory attack on a Kuwait Minister after he visited Qatar and met with the Emir.

Turki Al-Sheikh, Chairman of the General Sports Authority and Advisor in the Saudi Royal Court, used Twitter to vent out his frustration against Kuwait Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khalid Nasser Al-Roudan after his meeting with the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha yesterday.

Al-Sheikh tweeted: "Al-Roudan, in brief, is a mercenary under the umbrella of position and is also goes against proven facts. This mercenary will not affect the historical relations between Saudi Arabia and its sister Kuwait, and what he has said only represents him, as Modar poet said: If you want to know the souls, throw them money''

Al Sheikh's defamatory tweet came after the Kuwaiti Minister Khalid Al-Roudhan thanked the Emir of Qatar for his support and contribution to lifting FIFA's suspension of Kuwait Football Association last month. The delegation headed by the minister also thanked Qatar for agreeing to move the 23rd Gulf Cup to Kuwait.

The tweet, which was in a bad taste, shows the current social media climate in the countries, that are blockading Qatar, where many officials and media analysts are using foul language and fake news to defame other Gulf countries. 

Recently a US-based firm admitted, in the filing before the authorities, that they were paid by UAE government to spread the anti-Qatar news on social media.

Kuwaiti social media users were seen expressing their anger at the Al-Sheikh Tweet targeting their minister.

“Khalid Al-Roudan is a minister and his father was a minister and his grandfather was a minister, and from a well-known wealthy family in Kuwait, before Saudi Arabia was established, and he is not a mercenary as you said,” Abdullah Jahlan from Kuwait said in his tweet.