Alert: Qatar Protest Idea - A weekend where fans do not attend any local matches

as much as i dislike qatar, something like this really is pointless. how about all the other injustices in the world? isolated 'good causes' such as this will not change anything. even if this happens how about all the other construction workers and maids in qatar and surrounding sheikhdoms who are living like slaves? should they not be helped just because they are not associated with the world cup? how about south africa where there were people beside the stadiums who had no drinking water while millions of fifa development money went into corrupt pockets? fifa is corrupt as hell themselves qatar or not. then you gotta look at the reason why fifa is corrupt, etc... all the way to the identifying root cause. you gotta change things from the root otherwise even if you help one place without addressing the root reasons that cause injustice/misery, the negative conditions will just be displaced somewhere else as the root system requires such negative conditions to survive. however, as i said, i would be more than happy if qatar lost the world cup so if you wanna do this go ahead, although there is no chance that fifa will move it out of qatar.

 

Petition President Obama to declare Qatar World Cup 2022 working conditions inhumane
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...s-found-qatar-leading-2022-world-cup/mz9CF5fQ

 

you want to send a petition to a guy who is supporting terrorists who are committing massacres in syria and authorizing random drone strikes in pakistan that almost always cause civilian casualties? plus, obama and his administration does not care about international law, as demonstrated by their extrajudicial killing of osama, and their illegal decision to not allow delegates of other countries into the UN. obama and his administration have routinely demonstrated that they only do what is in their personal interest, so i cannot see how moving the world cup in qatar would personally benefit them.

 

I don't want to get too involved in a political discussion but if you're going to condemn Obama for an extrajudicial killing of a man who has killed over 3000 people in one day and hundreds more in the previous decade, then you better condemn IRI for the extrajudicial killing of MEK during the Iran-Iraq war (and that was a much larger scale). IRI's specialty is extrajudicial killings!

But yes, America acts out of its personal national interest. If you blame Obama for supporting terrorists commiting massacres in Syria, then to be logically consistent, you'd have to blame IRI for supporting terrorists commiting massacres in Israel/Palestine. Both sides will say they are supporting the just cause...that they are supporting "freedom fighters" or some variation thereof. But ironically, Amrika is not as involved in Syria as you make them out to be. That's America's allies like Saudi Arabia, in particular, that are bitching to America for not doing enough.

 

Worst thread ever....

 

One Qatar thread is all this forum can handle - and seeing how this discussion has already managed to dive into irrelevant politics after a mere six posts it makes sense to nip this one in the bud.