THIS IS REALLY SICK STUFF – AT 11:14 A.M. ET:  Sometimes we get a story we must quote simply to show readers the twisted thinking that is out there, and is treated respectfully.  From The Jerusalem Post: 

The Palestinian Authority has thanked the International Olympic Committee [IOC] for refusing to allow a minute's silence at the opening ceremony in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the Munich Games.

Jibril Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Union, sent a letter to IOC Chairman Jaques Rogge thanking him for his position, the PA's official news agency, Wafa, reported Wednesday.

In his letter, Rajoub, a former PA security commander, wrote: "Sports is a bridge for love, connection and relaying peace between peoples. It should not be a factor for separation and spreading racism between peoples."

Wafa said that Rajoub sent the letter to the IOC chairman on Tuesday.

A senior PA official in Ramallah confirmed that Rajoub had sent the letter and said that the Palestinians were opposed to "Israel's attempts to exploit the Olympic games for propaganda purposes."

COMMENT:  What will we have next, an attempt to cancel Memorial Day in the United States because it might offend the Germans, the Japanese, and Al Qaeda?

In World War II many American Navy officers could not adjust to the Japanese kamikaze.  It was simply beyond their comprehension that men would commit suicide rather than try to live.  Many officials refused to believe the first stories of the Nazi extermination camps because they could not believe that Germany, a "civilized nation," would do such a thing.

One of our great failures is the failure to understand ideology.  Even now, as this is written, instruction manuals within the U.S. Government are being purged of references to Islamic extremism, even though Islamic extremists are our sworn enemies. 

And so we have the Palestinian leadership, which sent terrorists to murder Israeli Olympic athletes in cold blood, hailing the refusal of the IOC to hold a minute of silence in memory of those athletes, claiming the memorial would constitute "racism."  How low can you go?  Pretty low, it seems.  The IOC itself has an ugly history, its collusion with the worst dictators being part of its corrupt past.  Indeed, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the 1930s, Avery Brundage, was openly pro-Nazi, and later, as head of a construction company, got the contract to build the new German embassy in Washington.  I only wish we could separate the athletes from the organization. 

There is currently a major effort underway by the usual suspects to whitewash the Muslim Brotherhood.  It will largely succeed, with the enthusiastic support of the "multiculturalists" in the universities and the press.  Our children will pay the price for our failure, once again, to understand ideology.

July 26, 2012