The celebration of the soccer world cup is coming up in a country where there is no freedom, where there are no rights or equality in any sense, where human rights are conspicuous by their absence.
A repulsive country where loving a person of your same sex can lead to death, where women can be stoned publicly and have no right to anything.
And where 6,500 workers have died in slavery in the construction of that stadium.
This reminds me of the barbarity that money represents, that powerful gentleman Don money, which makes even countries that boast of human rights turn a blind eye and be able to allow their national players to go to that absolutist outrage.
Let us remember the words of the Qatar World Cup ambassador, khalid Salman, who stated that "homosexuality is a sin and a mental deviation."
What good is it for certain players to wear the rainbow armband if they refuse to play and stand up? Although it seems that there is still hope, many renowned personalities are refusing to participate in this madness of the world cup and this should be normal, reject all forms of repression, crimes against humanity and not something that seems like an achievement.
To what extent should something that is paid for privately by clubs or teams be allowed by the European authorities or the international community?
Human rights cannot be subject to negotiation, human beings are not objects and I believe that this act of even endangering the people who are going to go should have consequences and in this case economic consequences, because from what I have seen it is what hurts soccer. That country is the living example of what Margaret Atwood wrote in her dystopia The Handmaid's Tale.