[kingcharles]

I was one of those slurping down the KoolAid and believing all the FUD about the Middle-East. Then I started dating a Qatari woman and that helped to balance me out. She says the public health system is pretty poor, and it seems the migrants do not qualify for it anyway. That's a bad start.

People on here are totally misreading the Amnesty report though. The report does not say 15,000 immigrants died from World Cup construction. It says 15,000 migrants died over the period specified (which is a nominal figure), but it says that they do not understand what the cause of death was because Qatar is either purposefully or incompetently diagnosing this. That needs to be fixed.

I don't think Qatar is unique in mistreating its immigrant labor. Everywhere I've lived in the West does this to some degree, though not as seriously as Qatar was doing in the past.