So principled!
Blair also emphasised that the last time England held the World Cup in 1966, homosexuality was still illegal in the country, saying that Britons were now “in danger of going over the top” with their crusade against anti-LGBT Qatar.
The former Labour leader’s arguments here echo those made by Gianni Infantino, the current president of FIFA, who has“We have been taught many lessons from Europeans and the Western world. I am European. For what we have been doing for 3,000 years around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before giving moral lessons… This one-sided moral lesson is just hypocrisy,” the official said earlier this month.
Qatari officials have also been quick to reverse criticism of their human rights record in the run-up to the tournament, with one officialthe west of racism and Islamophobia amid claims that there was skullduggery surrounding the decision to allow the country to host the tournament. “We dealt with this in a fair competition and there was no corruption,” former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani remarked. “Sadly there’s a great deal of discrimination and racism.”
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