With the 2022 FIFA World Cup taking place currently at Qatar, the rules and restrictions imposed on the players and spectators have raised few questions. The noisy, secular, “illiberal” liberal gangs of India, in this regard, have let down many (as usual) at a time when they were expected to step up and be the voice of the oppressed.
Firstly, many of the labourers involved in the construction of the stadiums were from Asian Countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan etc; as they were cheap labour. More than 6500 of these migrant workers died during the construction of the stadiums. The liberals who are often traumatized by the human rights violations in India have nothing to say regarding this.
Restrictions very similar in nature to those controverises that India has witnessed such as Beef ban, prohibition of Hijab in classrooms, homosexuality etc have been imposed.
1) Pork products aren’t permitted inside the stadiums premises and alcohol consumption by general spectators too is restricted being available only to spectators in the stadiums’ high-end luxury suites.
2) Homosexuality is criminalized in Qatar and England’s Captain Harry Kane wasn’t allowed to wear the One Love armband during their match against Iran.
3) Irrespective of the scorching heat, fans are to limit the amount of skin they show and even otherwise Qatar has dress code regulations for both men and women in public places.
Certain groups often preaching secularism, liberalism and “progressiveness” in India have their mouths tightly zipped this time. This attitude and hypocrisy of theirs cannot be written off as mere anti-Modi/BJP hate.
The illogical views, double standards and ranting of many often translates into an anti-Indian thought process/agenda in the garb of fancy subjective terminologies like secularism, liberalism etc; An example for this would be the Farmers’ protests.
The protests which went on for almost a year with many people, both inside and outside India, endorsing the same. However later the Supreme Court appointed panel stated that 86% of the farmers were in favour of the farm laws.
This is just one of the many incidents which has caused chaos and huge economic losses to the country. Incidents like these have to be nipped at the bud keeping in mind the country’s prosperity.
