Posted on 11/18/2022 5:52:52 AM PST by Conservat1
The FIFA World Cup is right around the corner. The 32-team quadrennial event is all set to kick off this Sunday at Qatar’s Al Bayt stadium. But even as hosts Qatar ready themselves to showcase their world-class football stadiums, human rights groups are increasingly calling for a boycott of the tournament. Over the last decade, as Qatar prepared itself to host the first-ever FIFA World Cup in the Arab peninsula, Humans Rights groups pointed out the several violations the Gulf state was committing. The monarchical state was accused of employing slave labor from South Asia to build the infrastructure required for the tournament, killing at least 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in the process. As per an Amnesty International estimate, at least 1,00,000 migrant laborers were exploited and abused by the Qatar administration since the state was granted the right to host the World Cup in 2010. Notably, as The Guardian points out, FIFA didn’t include any human rights and labor protection clauses in the agreement when they awarded Qatar the right to host the tournament.
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There’s like a dozen problems with this Qatar World Cup business.
Today, I noticed that Qatar said no to beer being served at the stadiums. Hotel bars are ok, but a lot of folks are flying in and had this idea that some parts of the stadiums would serve.
And I thought the boycott was a result of the anti homosexual belief. Shame on me
A lot are naive
There those too. But I highlighted the anti slavery part.
That sounds like a personal problem. (Not you, but attendees)
Qatar is also the boss of Al-JihadZeera “news” network propaganda.
Netlflix has a good series on how Cutter, and Russia for that matter, managed to snag the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.
It was basically a matter of figuring out where the bulk of the votes were, and then working to make sure that they indeed voted ‘correctly’, although unlike the US, they didn’t ‘vote by mail’, but instead filled out and dropped their ballots privately - so we’ll never know for sure how each country voted.
FIFA at its finest
I am boycotting the World Cup this year too.
Not because of any particular cause.
I am boycotting because SOCCER IS BORING
why... because nobody cares???
You can judge for yourself but fact checking sites report that these death toll claims are vastly inflated and include all foreigners who died for any reason in Qatar over the period 2010-22. In fact, three construction workers died while on the job at World Cup stadium venues.
As with a lot of globalist propaganda, facts and fiction are in a constant state of flux.
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