By Farouk Araie
Cape Town - Most members of the UN are guilty of human right violations, yet some powerful members single out Qatar for human right abuses.
This type of shameless behaviour is hypocrisy in full motion. The 2022 Fifa World Cup propelled a tiny wealthy nation into another political dimension.
The sufferings of displaced people in the Middle East was given a global platform.
The peaceful nature of the Islamic religion was witnessed by a global audience, whose immense reaction was awe inspiring.
A progressive Muslim country staged the biggest sporting event with astounding success.
Religion and tolerance gained new momentum as the victors and vanquished celebrated a sporting event that had humanity watching every moment of this global spectacle free of violence and intolerance.
Qatar 2022 was a shinning mirror of Islam, an image that will remain embedded for posterity.
Five billion people at 228 million per day watched the message of Islam at Qatar 2022. A poignant message that the prejudiced Western propaganda machine could never distort or erase.
The Western media resorted to bigotry to discredit the World Cup, and they failed miserably. There are many things about Qatar that deserve to be rectified, but using disparaging statements and stereotyping is a crass display of racism in 3D.
Human rights violations occur every day in virtually every country in the world, so it is sheer hypocrisy to vilify one nation and stealthily conceal grave acts of injustice waged by those who are screaming at Qatar.
Double standards have become the instruments of diplomacy today, selective morality and political amnesia have become the hallmarks of those insidious critics who play football with politics in the global arena.
Qatar’s staging of the World Cup was an exercise in humility and tolerance that the world must emulate if it is to survive to witness the next World Cup.
Cape Times
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