With the launch of the FIFA Qatar 2022 World Cup approaching, the voices of officials, media professionals and athletes in Britain, France, Germany and Denmark are louder to attack Qatar and demand a boycott of the World Cup, once under the pretext of defending the rights of foreign workers, and again under the pretext of protecting homosexuals, and the matter came to the establishment of some European airports By restricting the travel of fans to Doha.

Western hysteria has reached the point where the French newspaper Le Canard Enchaine published a caricature depicting the Qatari football players as "terrorists".

The fierce and continuous campaign against Qatar prompted its foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, to describe criticism of his country's hosting of the FIFA World Cup as "hypocrisy," stressing that the reasons cited for boycotting the World Cup have nothing to do with logic.

In an interview with the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", the Qatari minister said that Qatar has faced a systematic campaign against it over the past 12 years since it was chosen to host the World Cup, a campaign that no other country has faced with the right to host this tournament.

And if we want to search for logical reasons for the European attack on Qatar, then we must start with Britain, as its newspapers, specifically the Guardian, represented the spearhead in this campaign. Before an investigation that was supervised for nearly two years by the FIFA Ethics Committee cleared her of these charges.

After the failure of the first campaign, the Guardian launched a new campaign, this time under the slogan of sympathy for the workers who are working on the construction of the stadiums on which the 2022 World Cup will be held. It even claimed that 6,500 of these workers died while preparing the infrastructure for the World Cup facilities without knowing provide evidence of this.

As for France, which a number of its municipalities decided to boycott the broadcast of the World Cup matches in Qatar and not show them on large screens in public squares, it raised, in addition to solidarity with workers, the slogan of preserving the environment, considering that cooling the World Cup facilities will lead to high carbon emissions.

But France, and the words here for the CEO of the World Cup, Nasser Al-Khater, ignore two points, the first is that heating European stadiums in the winter produces higher carbon emissions, and the second is that Qatar uses solar energy to cool the stadiums, which means that the World Cup stadiums are environmentally friendly, unlike stadiums. european.

The fierce attack on Qatar did not prevent the emergence of rational European voices, led by former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who criticized in a tweet on Twitter what he called German arrogance in dealing with Qatar, stressing that at a time when the United Nations and the International Labor Organization praise every day With the reforms that Qatar has achieved, only we Germans criticize them every day.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing about these European criticisms is the belief of many Western officials that they have distinct laws and principles that must be applied, even if by force, in all countries of the world, regardless of religious, cultural and social considerations in other countries.

Regardless of the reasons, it is certain that many Europeans did not accept the idea of ​​a Muslim and Arab country hosting this global football event, which they consider exclusive to them.

What is certain is that these hateful and arrogant calls have no real resonance or impact on the ground, as all tickets for the World Cup matches were sold, as 3 million tickets were sold, while about 40 million requests were registered to buy tickets for this tournament.

In conclusion, we, the Arabs, support Qatar in the face of unjustified Western campaigns, and we are confident in its ability to organize a unique and distinguished version of the World Cup befitting our Arab heritage and culture.