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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
There's a part of me that still thinks it should remain in Qatar because 1,500 people have already died building the pyramids. Er, I mean the World Cup venues.
But then hopefully no one else would die if they shelved the rest of it. All the workers would ignominiously be sent back to Nepal and Pakistan I guess.
What a horrible, horrible thing FIFA has done.
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It should stay for a different reason.
Geopolitically (and leave out corruption and human rights issues for now), having the World Cup in the Middle East is a powerful symbol of their engagement in world affairs considering the perceived or real damage the West has done recently and for centuries to this part of the world.
In other words, FIFA, as a creation and still dominated by the West, is now obligated to reward Qatar's projection of soft power which is preferable to the alternate Islamic nihilism which we see and suffer from now.
Taking the WC away at this point reinforces a vicious cycle and continued bias against the West. So yeah, ends justify some of the means.