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Olympics: Networks champion US Muslim fencer, ignore Muslim abuse of Israel

Aug 14, 2016 12:14 pm By Robert Spencer

Muslims harassing Jews, to the extent of earning a reprimand from the International Olympic Committee? That’s not news! What’s the latest brouhaha we can make about something Donald Trump said?

Olympics

“Networks Omit Anti-Israel Bullying by Muslim Nations at Rio Olympics,” by Tim Graham, MRCNewsBusters, August 12, 2016:

The Washington Times and the Jerusalem Post were very lonely in reporting that Muslim animosity toward Israel’s 47-member Olympic delegation has triggered a reprimand from the International Olympic Committee and protest from Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League, which issued a statement this week decrying anti-Israel “hostility” in Rio de Janeiro.

None of the networks – especially NBC, the channel hosting the Olympics – seemed to notice at all on their newscasts. They can all champion the Muslim-American fencer, and then ignore the Muslim abuse of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reported the trouble began on the way to the opening ceremonies:

A source from the Lebanese Olympic committee told Lebanese television station Al Mayadeen on Saturday that the refusal to allow the Israeli delegation to ascend the bus on Friday was a group decision of the Lebanese Olympic delegation.

A separate source also said that Lebanese athletes are “committed to the national position in refusing to be in the same place as the Israelis.” He added that Lebanon will remain part of the resistance against Israel.

Gal’s post set off an internet firestorm after he described the incident on his Facebook account on Friday. “2016 Olympics…shame on you,” he wrote. “The Israeli delegation was preparing to board a bus to the opening ceremony, which was to be shared with the Lebanese delegation. The Lebanese, upon comprehending that they were to share a bus with the Israelis, addressed the driver in refusal and demanded that the door to the bus be shut. Event organizers then attempted to scatter us on different buses – something that is unacceptable for security and representative reasons.”

“We insisted that we board the bus designated for us – and that the Lebanese should de-board if so they wish. So the bus driver opened the door. But this time, the head of the Lebanese delegation blocked the entrance to the bus with his own body. Event organizers – attempting to prevent a diplomatic incident – then organized a separate ride for us. But the diplomatic incident already occurred – shame!”

He added: “How can it be that something like this occurs on the eve of the Olympic opening ceremony? Does this not directly oppose what the Olympics represent and stand for…I cannot begin to express my feelings, I’m in shock from the incident.”

Where is the diversity-and-inclusion crowd from NBC? If a country blocked a set of LGBT athletes from boarding a bus, they would have had a fit. But bullying Israel is apparently acceptable. The Times of Israel added that in judo, a Saudi competitor forfeited before having to face an Israeli.

A search for “Israel” in the last week of network transcripts showed ABC had an unrelated mention of an Israeli last Friday morning, and Democrat vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine mentioned Israel on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.

Israel mostly came up in a critique of Donald Trump….

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  1. Emilie Green says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    You know, I woulda thought that a Muslim in a sword contest would be a shoe-in for the gold medal. I mean, the tradition of spreading your “faith” by the sword (take a look at the Saudi flag to attest to how important the sword is to Islam), going back 1400 years, has given the Muslim a lot of practice.

    She should be shamed, shamed, shamed that she’s not bringing home the gold.

    • Angemon says

      Aug 14, 2016 at 12:57 pm

      On her defence, her opponents were not bound, gagged and with their necks in place.

  2. Dov Berrol says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 12:27 pm

    Lebanon should have withdrawn from the Olympic games if they don’t like the presence of the Israeli kuffars. Same story at the Eurovision Song Contest: Lebanon and Morocco will not participate in the contest because their national broadcaster would be legally obligated to show the Israeli entry. When Israel won ESC in 1978, Jordan cut away from the international broadcast. And that’s why there is no peace in the Middle East my friends. To quote Mister Rodgers: “It’s a lovely day in the neighbourhood…”

    • Isabel says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 3:14 am

      Please, let’s keep Israel in Eurovision forever, and never ever allow them to quit, no matter what…

  3. desidude2 says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    This is the result of a muslim takeover of a once rational and beautiful country of Lebanon. The olympics are supposed to represent the joining of different nation competing in the games in the spirit of the ancient olympics. This is represented by the olympic flame. Now this is no more,. any country that can’t compete or block other from competing because of others should be kicked out.

    • randall says

      Aug 14, 2016 at 2:39 pm

      Lebanon was once “rational and beautiful” when it had a non-Muslim majority 45-50 years ago. Islam brings desolation wherever it dominates.

  4. common sense says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 2:29 pm

    Fascist media reporting bias and collusion with our enemy who wants to take complete control of narratives on what they want our views to be regarding Islamofacism.

    -“That in fact its the ROP and Muslims are the victim.” -its what they want people thinking, were Islamaphobes if we don’t agree.

    Share these articles tell people you know and defend our constitution. Buying guns and ammo ensures our right to free speech and bolsters gunsmithing. Dollars that rich gun companies and the NRA use to lobby Washington and show our strength as a people.

  5. Champ says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 2:50 pm

    muslims get the *Gold* for harassing Jews! …mohammedans are such evil perps, even during the Olympics–tsk, tsk!

  6. mike says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 5:38 pm

    Muslim nations are afraid that the openness and success of Israeli society,science, and business will make Muslim countries look inferior. They cannot admit the inferiority of their position.

    • Isabel says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 3:23 am

      Sorry, I think is not “will” but “is has been”….. Since many years ago

  7. abbas says

    Aug 14, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    2,134 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000.
    at least 9,410 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
    91,139 Palestinians have been injured since September 29, 2000.
    Chart showing that the United States gives Israel $10.2 million per day in military aid and no military aid to the Palestinians.
    During Fiscal Year 2016, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least $10.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the Palestinians.
    FOR WHAT KILLING POOR PPL AND CHILDREN???
    Israel has been targeted by at least 77 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by 1.
    0 Israelis are being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 7,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.
    0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and at least 48,488 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967

    Israel is terrorist state , there was no country name Israel in Jews 3000 years history . Jews founded Israel and gathered Jews from all over the world while making native Arab refugees and aliens in their own homeland , just to wait for their messiah ( Antichrist ) because they do not believe in Jesus ( a.s)
    Muslims will fight Antichrist and will slaughter his followers before judgement day under the leadership of Jesus ( a.s) and imam mahdi ( a.s)

    the whole middle east region was peaceful and thriving before 1948 when Israel founded by greedy Jews under colonizer devil Britten . after 1948 whole region is bleeding increasingly with every passing year. whole west specially Satan USA is playing in hands of Jesus ( a.s) theoretical killer evil Jews . why Saudi are USA ally ?? because Saudi king was first to sign treaty in 1922 for approval of Israel on the condition that USA + UK will support his dictatorship and will ignore / support his human rights abuses as they ignore Israel s’ human rights violations
    USA lobbied against , Iraq , Libya , Syria etc… and attacked , ruined the lives and future of millions of innocent peoples just to keep region unstable so that no strong country or army should exist near Israel to challenge its occupation + nonstop killings .
    USA deliberately made Isis and gave it unlimited supply of weapons and money to kill Muslims , keep region unstable for Israel , defame Islam in world and keep its world largest arm producing + selling businesses running

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 12:16 am

      The greatest enemy to Muslims is themselves under Islam.

      • Isabel says

        Aug 15, 2016 at 3:29 am

        Exactlym

    • Larry says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 6:57 am

      Happy eternal nakba!

    • maghan says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 8:34 am

      Historical Arab imperialism is now being beaten back. Vile Arab imperialism invaded all of West Asia and raped and conquered all the way into Spain. The Spaniards under Freedom Fighter El Cid kicked out the invaders in 1492. Israel is now mounting a spirited Reconquista.

    • desidude2 says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 9:37 am

      Well abbas, imagine if the middle east had retained their christian faith instead of following a delusional false prophet of islam. There would be peace, the middle east would be like Europe, rich and powerful. Saudi arabia would be a rich and advanced nation with christians and jews running the country, it would be a center of scientific knowledge, culture, and education. same with Iran, Iraq, syria, and lebanon. instead with muslims running these nations these are all turning into backwards islamic hellholes that are constantly at war among themselves.

    • aaron morand says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 2:48 pm

      C R A P…ok so you don’t want your children killed? Then DONT send them out to attack Israeli
      troops……you blinking idiots do not have enough sense to wipe your arse….TIRED of hearing about the
      poor poor palestenians…..stuff the palestenians….run them into the sea and be rid of the VERMIN….
      Israel! take BACK the palestenian terrority, Jordan, Lebanon, and all of the ME nations and while your
      at it take Egypt also……do the 6 days war thing again only do not stop even if the PHONY Arab serving,
      UN says STOP….Don’t STOP until the last vestage of resistance to the Israeli Nation is wiped from the face of the earth….Stuff the Pres. and his Cabinet and the woosie Congress…he is a Muslim pandering
      phony in my opinion and regardless his words, doesn’t give a FLIP for anyone but himself and his Muzzie friends….(bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia who was complicit in the 9/11 terror attack on
      the USA)….the USA should take their oil as “reparations” for the price gouging that has been going on for decades by the sand dune shieks……this is all Crap…anyone who doesn’t see the lies that the Arabs
      lay at the feet of the Israelis is B L I N D…and anyone who is a citizen who takes up any action against
      Israel while living here, should be sent to Palestine, lock, stock and barrel……

  8. abbas says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 4:31 am

    CICERO (Marcus Tullius Cicero). First century B.C. Roman stateman, writer.
    “Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.” (Oration in Defense of Flaccus)
    Cicero was serving as defense counsel at the trial of Flaccus, a Roman official who interfered with Jewish gold shipments to their international headquarters (then, as now) in Jerusalem. Cicero himself certainly was not a nobody, and for one of this stature to have to “speak softly” shows that he was in the presence of a dangerously powerful sphere of influence.
    and on another occasion Cicero wrote:
    “The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.”
    SENECA (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). First century Roman philosopher.
    “The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.” (De Superstitione)
    DIO CASSIUS. Second century Roman historian. Describing the savage Jewish uprising against the Roman empire that has been acknowledged as the turning point downward in the course of that great state-form:
    “The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood… In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.” (Roman History)
    DIODORUS SICULUS. First century Greek historian. Observed that Jews treated other people as enemies and inferiors.
    “Usury” is the practice of lending money at excessive interest rates. This has for centuries caused great misery and poverty for Gentiles. It has brought strong condemnation of the Jews!
    BERNARDINO OF FELTRO. 15th century Italian priest. A mild man who extolled patience and charity in normal circumstances, he described himself as a “barking dog” when dealing with Jews:
    “Jewish usurers bleed the poor to death and grow fat on their substance, and I who live on alms, who feed on the bread of the poor, shall I then be mute before outraged charity? Dogs bark to protect those who feed them, and I, who am feed by the poor, shall I see them robbed of what belongs to them and keep silent?” (E. Flornoy, Le Bienbeureux Bernardin the Feltre)
    AQUINAS, THOMAS, Saint. 13th century scholastic philosopher. In his “On the Governance of the Jews,” he wrote:
    “The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.”
    HILAIARE BELLOC, in the book THE JEWS, page 9
    “There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance … There is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.”

    • Isabel says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 6:56 am

      If you just replace the word “jews” by “muslims” it also works…!

      All these people forgot to mention all the goid things jews have. If you wrote some paragraphs about those good things, you would not be able to replace the wirds “jews” with the wird “muslims”. It would not work…

    • aaron morand says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      hey raghead….read Genesis 16 where GOD tells of the character of the Arab muslim named
      Ishmael…..”his name will be Ishmael and I will make a great nation (numbers of people) from him and
      he will be a wild ass of a man, his hand will be against every man and evey mans hand will be against
      him and he will live among his brothers”….Cannot get a higher authority than God who knows the hearts
      and minds of EVERY MAN……..Ciscero/Aquinas/Seculus/etc…..what did they know that wasn’t set
      on fire by the very fires of hell themselves as they slaughtered the Christians and any and every other
      group(s) of peoples who disagreed with the Caesar/God/Man……Abas, you LOSE……you support a
      NO WIN situation…..right now the WTP of this Nation are only mildly pissed off…you and your Arab
      buddies keep this crap up with the cowardly attacks on people…WHAT DO I MEAN?…men beating women and children, raping a woman while in a gang, gangs attacking school children and people
      alone, elderly people being manhandled by young men, sneak attacks like san bernadino, Ca., Tennessee Marine Recruiting Station, Machetes in the Railroad station, Knives in the streets,
      Orlando, etc….keep it up and YOU WILL GET WTP pissed off enough that WTP will take your sorry
      foul smelling body out behind the wood shed and give you and yours what they deserve….STUFF
      your CAIR and every other false faced muslim organization….in my OPINION…Mohammed is a LIAR,
      your ALLAH is 1st cousin to satan and ISLAM is one of the most despicable excuses for a “religion”
      ever……afraid of YOU….you are the coward….you and yours only attack when the odds are 10 to
      1 in your favor…one on one you and yousr are cowards and liars….I guess that you remember when 1
      Israeli chased 10 of your kind and 10 Israelis chased 100 of your kind….and today is THE SAME….
      you cross breed with your 1st cousins so that you have mutated children and with IQs in the low,
      low double digits…..what good have the muslims ever done for the world except be live targets for
      target practice……pitiful race of people…absolutely P I T I F U L…….

  9. Morty Mooze says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 7:43 am

    On the surface for the Islamic masses Muslims snub Jews.

    Covertly there is much exchange in economics, business, military, agriculture and medicine and many other fields. Hand-shaking all-around, too !!!
    On the pretext of visiting Al-Aksa Mosque thousands of Muslims from repressive Islamic regimes find freedom in Israel – Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem !!!

    These visitors chant (in whispers): From the River to the sea, Israel land of Liberty !!!

  10. penelope says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 8:50 am

    the media sucks in America; they cannot stand to cover anything the slightest bit offensive to show the true colors of islam and their useful idiots.

  11. Jack Diamond says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 10:30 am

    Islam is fatalistic, hence the “Inshallah” (Allah willing) repeated ad nauseum in their conversations.
    Winning and losing both are ultimately up to Big Al. Many Muslim heroes were great losers, not winners.

    When Muslims are weak, divided, and in defeat this Inshallah fatalism works in the favor of infidels
    in keeping their populations docile. We have an opposite situation today. Muslims feeling they have the upper hand (therefore at our throats). A feeling confirmed by an intimidated or fawning media, in this case NBC.

    • Jack Diamond says

      Aug 15, 2016 at 10:47 am

      this was in response to DustyFae. The discombobulated paragraphs I blame on the Illuminati.

  12. Rachel Cohen says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 12:06 pm

    She is a godless whore–who makes it clear she hates America. The so called but not main stream media–are promoting Islamic terrorism.

  13. aaron morand says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    is it America…just vote for HRC and get at least 4 more years for the Muslims to entrench themselves in our Nation and further their sharia over our law just as they are doing in Europe and especially in
    Deutschland…….Her character has been proven….she is a loose cannon as it regards our national
    security…..she is physically ill and probably will not last the full term so how does Pres. Kaine sound
    to ya? The SHEEP being led by the pan, the piper, lulled into a “free this and free that” stupor…let
    somebody else pay for it……the Queen bee will be untouchable and will enthrone herself much like
    little bitty Napoleon did with his crown…..AND, don’t forget…..Roving Eye Bill will be right there on
    her left shoulder whispering his lies to her…yup,,,,,,it will be a true NIGHTMARE for FREEDOM
    loving people and a situation that may just as like as not, start a revolution right here on your street,
    and right here in your hometown where you AND your Children live…..who needs the Muslims to
    destroy American and this Nation that WTP love when you have the Clintons to do the job for them????

  14. Carolyne says

    Aug 15, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    “What the Olympics stand for” is a bunch of hogwash. At the ancient Olympics, in Greece, if a woman watched the games she was put to death. I guess some misogynists would like that to still be the case.

    In regard to European men being “Feminized,” I am feminized, but have been so since birth. I am a woman who can handle a gun and shoot in self defense if necessary. I would gladly stand with my country against the barbarian invasion.

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