Before the winner of the Brazil World Cup has even been decided, the
2022 event is facing fresh threats. And this time, it's not down to
construction delays or street protests, it's ambitious terrorists. The
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the terrorist organisation currently
wreaking havoc in the Middle East, issued a bizarrely polite threat to
FIFA earlier this week, warning them not to hold the 2022 World Cup in
Qatar.
The group claims that by that stage, Qatar will be a part
of its newly-declared Islamic Caliphate, "under the rule of the Caliph
Ibrahim Bin Awad Alqarshi" (the full name of ISIS leader Al Baghdady).
Under that caliphate, football games will be considered "a diversion
from Islam".
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