Qatar is not a country of 1.5 million people as I read everywhere. It is a country of 250,000 Qatari citizens and 1.250 million slaves.
And in talking about "slavery", I don't exagerate:
- Qataris go in South Asia and lie to people in promising them big wages for their families.
- Pakistanese and Indian workers severely endebt themselves to pay $2,000 in the plane ticket and visa rights.
- Once in Qatar, their owner steals their passport, and finally pay them only $100 a month (remember they have $2,000 to pay back).
- They cannot flee, they have no legal rights at all and no passport, female slaves from the Philippines can be sexually abused with no restriction.
- They have to work 6 days a week, at a temperature of 50°C. The working sites death rate is huge, and the suicide rate is too.
- They have no freedom of movement. They can only go from the working site to the sleeping camp. Of course, they cannot shower, eat only soup and bread, drink badly desalinated water and sleep in rooms of 50 people.
Generally, people accept that in thinking "they are always better than in their shantytowns" but this isn't even true. Qataris lie in order to import them.
Is this really what FIFA sponsor ? I remember a long time ago FIFA banned South Africa because of the apartheid, and now, they give the world cup to a country being a charicature of the worst aspects of globalisation.
And by the way, Qatar isn't even a real country, it only host a single mid-size town: Doha, with a population of.... 250,000 citizens!
According to Blatter's recent statement, the world cup could be set up in february, and Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE could even host world cup games. That means FIFA doesn't even respect the other bidders in changing everything after the decision is taken!
I wouldn't even be surprised that, in the end, the national teams of all those Gulf neighbours are "invited" to participate to the event. I mean this isn't sport business... there's no sport at all remaining.
