debtIFA President Gianni Infantino believe there is hypocrisy in Europe’s attitude towards World Cup Host Qatar and its values.
Much has been done in the West about Qatar’s record on human rights, LGBT rights and treatment of workers, but Infantino continued to hit back with a rather bizarre speech.
“For what we Europeans have done for the last 3,000 years, I think we should apologize before we start giving people moral lessons for the next 3,000 years,” he said in Doha.
“Qatar mood todayI feel Arabic today. Feeling African today. I feel gay today. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker.
“Of course, I am not Qatari, Arab, African, gay, or disabled, but I know what it means to be discriminated against and bullied, so I feel that way. A foreigner in a foreign country. As a child, I was bullied. I had red hair and freckles, and I was Italian.
Infantino then appeared to defend Qatar’s migrant workers system and even suggested that Europe could follow a similar strategy.
“So what do you do? You try to get involved and make friends.
“If Europe really cares about the fate of these young people, Europe can be like Qatarcreate some legal channels where at least a number, percentage of these workers can come.
“It will cost them less income, but it will give them hope and give them a future. This means that we should not point out what is going wrong. Here in Qatar, of course, some things are going wrong.
“This moral lesson is one-sided, it’s just hypocrisy.”
