Before Morocco threw its hat in the ring, there was only America. MAGA appears to be the name of the game anywhere you look these days. Make America Great Again everywhere and anywhere. As long as the US profit and their competitors eat sand (or salt water or rocks – you choose), all is good in Trump’s special democracy.
First there was the “United” Bid for 2026, which includes the USA, the USA, the USA, the USA and Mexico and Canada. And the USA. If anybody in his right mind thinks that much Trump-hated Mexico will still be part of the deal once even that US president of theirs really understands that “Mexico will not pay for your fuckn wall” (direct quote of former Mexican President Vicente Fox’ tweet), is probably just a bit delusional. Behind closed doors it was always clear – and discussed – that the USA needed a smokescreen to win the Bid, and the best such screen was determined to be a JV with those two “partners” who are presently engaged in a fierce fight over the NAFTA deal (“the worst trade deal in history”, as Trump calls it – but then any trade deal is the “worst ever” if US predominance is not your in-your-face winner).
The US Bid is in overdrive: whilst it is obviously against all regulations and FIFA bidding rules for a bidder to smear a competitor, there seem to be sufficiently large numbers of media that are suddenly finding fault with just about anything Morocco does, wants to do or is not doing half as well as the greatest nation on earth.
This medium has reported about the oddities that FIFA have invented at a very late stage (and which were undisclosed, no matter what tune they fiddle) and ever-new problems appear to be plaguing poor Morocco.
What many are forgetting is that Morocco is one of the most stable countries in Africa, and that its Kings have a centuries-old tradition to employ a particular type of adviser: Jewish citizens of Morroco, who have done much good and offered solid advice to the country’s rulers over the decades to stay out of as many problematic issues and conflicts as possible. Considering the rampant anti-semitism in many countries around the world – and some African/Arab countries of course included – it is an aspect worth mentioning: Jews and Arabs living in comfortable harmony, certainly better than those in Palestine or Israel itself.
Instead, ever-new and very important facts appear to be cropping up, sullying the Moroccan Bid. The country’s laws forbid homosexuality, which means that a minority is treated worse than others are. Not good, agreed. But to change that, will take longer than what a World Cup can deliver – yet let’s not forget that the Catholic Church continues not only to frown upon homosexuality but for hundreds of years any homosexual conduct was strictly sanctioned – and worse.
And here’s the problem: while innumerable US Christians – evangelists and above all televangelists – continue to label homosexuality as a curse and aberration, the farther right one tilts, the worse is the fate not only of homosexuals in the US but of the entire LGBT community. That’s a fact, yet nobody appears to be mentioning it, and I have not seen in in any FIFA report that would have criticized the USA about its treatment of the LGBT community in far too many US States. Visit the Bible Belt States, review Utah’s Mormon positions or park your mind in the Midwest: the hatred for anything that is not mainstream and right-wing is rampant and the more right-wing extreme or supremacist the community you visit, the worse off are M