Vet World Cup hosts

Regarding “World Cup raises antiMuslim bias” (Open Forum, Nov. 30): Khaled A. Beydoun correctly says that “Qatar does not hold a sporting monopoly on human rights violations.”

What he leaves out is that Qatar went through a great deal of trouble and expense to have a sporting monopoly on the World Cup 2022. The country wanted to be the center of attention, and now that it is, it doesn’t like some of that attention. They should have thought of that earlier.

World Cups should be held only in democratic nations, never again in a dictatorship or a theocracy. Want a World Cup? Let your citizens have real voting power.

Larry Schorr, San Francisco