FWIW, I don't think moving the WC is a super crazy idea. I sense the reaction to this is subconsciously a little bit...xenophobic. Maybe I am wrong about that. But there are alot of countries where the weather in the summer is not compatible for elite level football, the USA for example who were also bidding for the 2022 WC.
The problem is that Qatar won, clearly, in an unfair matter. It was a fix and FIFA didn't even think their fix through. A shame.
i kinda agree, football is a global game and we should see the world cup in the arabic world even if it is hard to do. sepp blatter is very clever though. very much like senator clay davis from the wire. he'll use populist stuff that seems hard to disagree with like spreading the world cup to new parts of the world and fighting parochial attitudes to distract from his blatantly corrupt practices and shut down criticism. it makes him difficult to fight.