or maybe he's just not important enough for them. he's no different than one of their race horses if they won the kentucky derby.
when you start feeling yourself a little bit and start thinking you're "different" and you're "important", a megabillionaire putting you in your place might humble you a little and then you might actually go help your destitute country.
and if it was a racial thing (which I doubt), so what. these people do a lot worse to migrant workers in their countries than not shaking his hand and these players just cash the checks and spend away. there is no moral high ground when you're wading in that cesspool. you're just a whiny whore at this point and pimp sheikh needs to slap you inline.