{"id":3974,"date":"2012-08-13T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:06:23","slug":"evil-olympics-closes-but-rogge-honoured-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/evil-olympics-closes-but-rogge-honoured-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Evil Olympics’ closes but Rogge honoured ‘Palestinians’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jaques Rogge pictured in Forbes Magazine wearing Palestinian colours<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Olympic closing ceremony has focussed attention on Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).\u00a0 Outside the Olympics, the Muslim ‘Evil Olympics’ group tried to hold a demonstration.\u00a0 Whatever misgivings Christians had about the Games, we thank God they passed peacefully.<\/p>\n

M. Rogge was on hand to award the medals for the Men’s Marathon in the last medal ceremony of the games.<\/p>\n

No ‘One Minute of Silence’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IOC refused to hold a minute’s silence to remember the 11 Israeli victims of the Munich massacre in 1972<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Demands for such an observance came from the governments of Canada, Australia, USA, Germany, Italy and Israel,\u00a0 but not from that of the UK.\u00a0 In response, IOC officials attended a small ceremony\u00a0on 6th August outside the games organised by the Israeli Embassy.<\/p>\n

Suspicions have been raised of a pro-Palestinian bias in the IOC by a photograph published by Forbes magazine in November 2011. The caption below it read:<\/p>\n

‘President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge pauses during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Rogge on Tuesday expressed concern over \u201cobstacles\u201d facing Palestinian athletes, and in veiled criticism of Israel said athletes should be granted free movement regardless of politics.’<\/p>\n

There was in fact a Palestinian team at the London Olympics in 2012<\/a><\/strong>, as there has been in every Olympic Games since 1996.\u00a0 None of the five athletes progressed to the finals.<\/p>\n

‘Evil Olympics’ is ‘Muslims against Crusades’ revisited<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, outside the stadium, a planned demonstration\u00a0against the ‘Evil Olympics’ by Islamists was called off when police refused it a static license.<\/p>\n

The new group has put up a website, http:\/\/evilolympics.com\/index.php<\/a>#<\/strong>,\u00a0on which they complain that nations taking part are ‘oppressing Muslims’.\u00a0 In reality, the new group is merely the banned ‘Muslims against the Crusades’ under a new name.\u00a0 SMS messages were sent out from a number associated with Anjem Choudary, who describes himself<\/a><\/strong> as Chairman of the Society of Muslim Lawyers, Judge at the Shari\u2019ah Court of the UK and Former UK Head of Al-Muhajiroun.<\/p>\n

‘Evil Olympics’ singles out four countries for particularly oppressing Muslims.<\/p>\n

The first is Israel, so that is no surprise, accused of being where the mainly-Sunni Muslim Palestinians<\/a><\/strong> want to be. The second is China, which dislikes any religion, and is mounting a Ramadan clampdown on the Uighur Sunni Muslims in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.\u00a0 The third country is Burma, where the Buddhist regime has closed mosques attended by the Sunni Muslim Rohingya people in Arakan.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the fourth country accused\u00a0by ‘Evil Olympics’ of oppressing Muslims is Syria.\u00a0 Syria is usually thought of as a Muslim state.\u00a0 However, In Syria, the Alawite Shia minority, led by President Assad, is fighting for its life against Sunni Muslim rebels, as we have reported before. (see links below)<\/p>\n

The Sunni \/ Shia divide<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is curious that in all four countries accused of oppressing Muslims, it is Sunni Muslims whom ‘Evil Olympics’ support.\u00a0 It can be argued that Sunnis\u00a0form the majority of Muslims in the UK and worldwide, and\u00a0we shall come to that.\u00a0 But ‘Evil Olympics’ taking sides in Syria makes sense when we realise that\u00a0Anjem Choudary has been identified as a Sunni Muslim<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Al-Muhajiroun, of which Anjem Choudary was the UK head and Sheik Omar Bakri the spiritual leader, is said by US intelligence to be a Sunni Muslim group<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Al Quaeda is Sunni Muslim, as is its birthplace of Saudi Arabia, which is why they are supporting the Syrian rebels rather than President Assad.<\/p>\n

‘Evil Olympics’ also castigate the USA and UK for their actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 Christian Voice has consistently opposed British involvement in both countries.\u00a0 But Afghanistan has a Sunni Muslim majority, whilst the deposed Saddam Hussein was a Sunni Muslim in a majority Shia nation.\u00a0 The terrorist group Hezbollah, prominent in Lebanon and supported by Syria and Iran,\u00a0is Shia Muslim.\u00a0 Iran is 93% Shia, Azerbaijan 75%, Iraq 63% and Bahrain 61%.\u00a0 Yemen is 47% Shia and Lebanon 41% Shia.\u00a0 All other Muslim countries have greater Sunni majorities<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Worldwide, Muslims split into an estimated 90% Sunni and 10% Shia.\u00a0 Most Muslims in Britain (around 95%) are Sunni Muslim.\u00a0 See this pro-Muslim link: http:\/\/guide.muslimsinbritain.org\/guide3.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, we thank God there was no terrorist incident at the Games.\u00a0 That can mean the conspiracy theorists were wrong or that it was only averted because of the noise they made, according to one’s point of view.<\/p>\n

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See our previous stories:<\/p>\n

10\/08\/2012: \u00a332.5m for the anti-Christian Syrian rebels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

02\/08\/2012: An Explosion of Olympic Conspiracy Theories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

27\/07\/2012: Syria \u2013 Thank God for the Russians<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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