Qatar 2022 World Cup Controversy: Top Media Popular Version Netray Is A Matter Of Prohibition Of LGBT

The opening ceremony and party of Qatar's 2022 World Cup on November 20, 2022. (Twitter/@brfootball)

JAKARTA - The rivalry between Mohammad bin Hammam and Sepp Blatter in the 2011 FIFA presidential election became the first controversy for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup.

Hammam was accused of bribery African football officials for choosing Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. However, Hammam denied and thought what he had done was not a bribe. He will prove the allegations are groundless.

"Tying to give gifts is a common thing in FIFA and exchanging gifts with FIFA administrators should not be categorized as an attempt to make bribes," Hammam told Sky Sport.

Hammam finally decided to resign from his candidacy as FIFA President in line with the emergence of the issue to the public.

"I'm sad to see the reality now and this is an expensive price, there is a relegation of FIFA's reputation. This is not something I have in mind for FIFA and this is unacceptable. For this reason, I am announcing my resignation from the plan to participate in the election of chairman," Hammam emphasized.

Qatari authorities also consider it just a political issue in the contestation of the FIFA presidential election. This is because Hammam has no official role in supporting the offering as the host and has always acted independently of Qatar's campaign as the host.

Controversy continues. Human Rights Watch explained its findings on the issue of the lack of welfare and death of migrant workers who built supporting facilities for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup.

Reportedly, thousands of workers died as a result of work accidents. But Qatar World Cup 2022 CEO Nasser Al Khater denied it. Only three workers died in the 2022 World Cup project. Instead, he considered the media to be too exaggerated and focused solely on negative things.

"This figure (the deaths of three workers) were given to them many times but unfortunately they did not publish it," Nasser said.

Until now, even though the World Cup has been going on, the controversy is still blowing fast. The prohibition of individual freedom, especially LGBT rights, has become a sharp spotlight. The football federation and players from a number of countries protested this either off or on the field.

As a Muslim country, Qatar does forbid the behavior of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT). There is no prohibition for them to come to Qatar to watch World Cup matches, but there should be no activity and campaigns about this.

"If you want to express your view of LGBT, do it in a society that can accept it. Don't come and insult the whole community [of us]. We will not change religions [just because of the World Cup] for 28 days," said Head of World Cup Security 2022 Abdullah Nasari as quoted from Supports Ration.

With this series of controversies, it is not wrong if someone thinks that the Qatar 2022 World Cup will no longer only be about football but is full of political content.

Wherever the location is, football should be a happiness and a forum for unity, not a battle of political interests.

Qatar's 2022 World Cup has become a hot topic on social media. Referring to the results of Netray's monitoring on November 16-22 2022, there were 59.4 thousand tweets with an impression of 122.8 million reaching 302.1 million Twitter user accounts.

The conversation began to soar since November 19, continuing to November 20 at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, and reaching its peak on November 22.

During the monitoring period with the keyword world Cup', there were various popular tweets. Like the official song of the 2022 World Cup performed by Jungkook and the reading of verses of the Koran during the opening ceremony.

As a country with a majority Muslim population, Qatar shows off this identity as a matter of pride. This has received appreciation from Indonesian citizens who are also happy about it," wroteNetray on November 24, 2022.

Despite the many positive appreciations thrown at the opening of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, this year's World Cup talks were also filled with negative opinions with a total of 14,016 tweets, generally related to the prohibition of LGBT attributes, limited alcoholic beverages, to the issue of human rights violations.

Top popular media that received a lot of attention from netizens in the conversation were the statement by the Head of World Cup Security 2022 Abdullah Nasari who firmly rejected all activities and attributes of LGBT during the World Cup in Qatar.

Netray monitoring results related to popular Twitter users topics in talks about Qatar's 2022 World Cup. (Netray.id)

Furthermore, in the popular account category, it appears that @bts_bighit is the most popular account on this topic. Jungkook, who appeared at the opening ceremony for the 2022 official song World Cup with Fahad Al Cubaisi, managed to attract the attention of netizens widely to @bts_bighit, becoming the most popular account on this topic because he often received comments.

Meanwhile, in the Popular Figure category, the name @Husen_Jafar became the most popular figure. This was also influenced by his tweet which reminded netizens not to gamble during the world football party, "Netray submitted his report.