FIFA decided to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Billions of people will watch, thousands will go to it and billions of dollars will be spent.
Qatar has migrant workers who are prohibited from leaving the country, and work for nothing. Essentially, it is a slave-based labor system.
Their record on human rights and women's rights is appalling. Sharia law is the main source of Qatari legislation according to Qatar's Constitution. Women are not accepted as witnesses in legal proceedings, and both homosexuality and drinking alcohol is punishable by death.
Wealthy figures in the Qatari government have been accused of supporting both terror groups al-Nusra and ISIS.
Do we want the world's largest sporting competition held in a country like this? The US has the power to stop it, and we must