What is the "tea" with the world cup this year?

DOHA, QATAR - MARCH 30

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 Qatar was announced as a host for the World Cup 2022, on December 2nd, 2010. But for the last few years as we got closer to the scheduled date, Qatar was met with a lot of controversy surrounding their human rights violations. Whether it was violations of women's rights over the years, freedom of expression or how they treat immigrant workers; especially the ones that worked building the world cup stadiums.

The sad reality of the story is that in order to celebrate beautiful things, we are met with the brutal treatment of the people that were involved into making this event come to life. In general, we paint the World cup as something happy, where it unites all nations together with ceremonies that talk about the values of life, and beautiful performances that showcase each nation's culture. Despite the effort that the world cup paints to the general public, behind not so closed doors we are met with how these events and the process of making them affect the lives of many humans around the world. 

 For instance, let's look at this year's World Cup where approximately 6500 migrant workers had died ever since Qatar was announced as the host, and rightfully so was met with criticism from human rights organizations. There are multiple reasons of why you as a person should boycott the World Cup in Qatar but if you're going to do so, then you have to have the same standards applying to other countries that also violated the rights of immigrants and other human rights. Let's give an example of how Brazil while preparing for the world cup in 2014 more than 4000 inhibitors of multiple communities were facing demolition of their houses in order to build a park, not only that but multiple strikes were made by thousands of workers against the evacuations that were estimated to be 120,000 in total of 12 cities in order to prepare for the World Cup and the Olympics. But did you hear about any of that? Did the BBC UK refuse to broadcast their ceremony in 2014? 

Of course, you have the right to criticize any government, company and events that had such impact on lives and cultures, but when you do so also hold other countries at the same standards without mocking their religions nor cultural beliefs. Social media was filled with criticism that was aimed and coming out of islamophobia, and not rightful criticism that I would've loved personally to see. While at the same time I do not agree with the choices that Qatar as a government made during these events, at the same time I wouldn't agree with the way other nations and personalities on social media protested against them.