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Abdullah Ibhais

Abdullah Ibhais

Jun 8, 2026

18:10
Um, in one of your recent statements, you said that sympathy without action changes nothing.Who do you believe should act now, and what kind of actions are you actually asking for?
18:23
I, I'll, I'll be a little bit frank about this.
18:27
I think everyone knows that they have a responsibility.
18:30
Every person, every one of us has a responsibility.
18:34
Um, they can say that we didn't know, uh, but, uh, it doesn't need a lot of effort to actually find out what is wrong with sports.
18:43
It's just that everyone chooses to just, uh, turn a black, a blind eye to what is going on because it's inconvenient.
18:52
And, uh, the experience for them is, uh, it's kind...

8 MINS LATER

27:24
Here is Abdullah Ibhais with his presentation titled Drop by Drop: Shaping Perception One Message at a Time.
24:49
He saw right in front of him how his positive spin had been covering up so much dirt.
24:56
It hit me that, uh, all along I've been on the bad side, uh, and I have been covering up rather than fixing the problem.
25:04
I was enabling it to go on.
25:06
It was a hard realization to come at because, uh, I never thought of myself as an evil person, yet I was doing evil deeds, covering up for what was going on, thinking that this would allow for positive change.
25:24
I allowed myself to be fooled, and that's not something that I can forgive or actually live with to this day.

16 MINS LATER

41:10
He now thinks differently about the World Cup, about the event he dreamed of being a part of, about the first tournament in the Arab world and how it reflected on the region.
41:21
They actually let down every Arab and Muslim.
41:26
If you hold yourself to be a Muslim or a decent human being, you cannot say that, "I believe I have the right to exploit people who are poor or who are beneath me." And when Infantino sent a letter asking everyone to focus on the game and stop delivering moral lessons to people around the world to understand the cultural differences, what is the cultural difference that actually justifies treating humans as being less than human? If this is your culture, you should not be accepted.

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