The president of world soccer governing physique FIFA says the West shouldn’t criticise Qatar’s internet hosting of the World Cup – including that European nations ought to as an alternative apologise for their very own histories.
Gianni Infantino mentioned critics have been in no place “to give moral lessons to people” at a information convention to mark the opening of the match.
The small host nation has come beneath hearth for its therapy of migrant staff and its angle to homosexual rights.
But Mr Infantino mentioned: “For what we Europeans have been doing around the world in the last 3,000 years we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people.
“How many of those European or Western enterprise firms who earn tens of millions from Qatar, billions, what number of of them have addressed migrant staff’ rights with the authorities?
“None of them, because if you change the legislation it means less profit. But we did, and FIFA generates much less than any of these companies from Qatar.”
Qatar’s ‘kafala system’ is a set of labour legal guidelines which permit Qatari people or companies to confiscate staff’ passports and cease them leaving the nation.
Human rights teams say this has given builders free reign to take advantage of them – exposing them to gruelling working circumstances for little pay and never permitting them to go dwelling till initiatives materialise.
There have been studies of migrant employee deaths that vary from just a few dozen to a number of thousand within the 12 years of preparation for the match.
Qatar’s Sharia regulation means same-sex sexual exercise has punishments starting from seven years in jail to demise by stoning.
Source: information.sky.com”