Qatar will host the World Cup from November 20 to December 18. From the moment this small Gulf state of 3 million (of which only 15% are Qatari nationals) won its bid in 2010 for the world’s most widely viewed sporting event, it has come in for withering criticism, from everything to bribing its way to victory to abusing guest laborers to persecuting members of the LGBTQ community.
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani,…