Iran has banned a weightlifter from sports for life and dissolved a sports committee after the athlete greeted an Israeli counterpart on a podium.
Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.
On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.
The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.
You’ve gotta be pretty insecure to have a complete breakdown over a minor issue. Really makes Irans government appear weak.
Yeah, all this does is broadcast weakness. It’s a pathetic reaction.
Islamists are fragile nut cases
As much as I despise islam/Iran, it has nothing to do with weakness. It’s a religion thing. It’s one of the core principles of Islam to hate the Jews. It’s literally in the very first of the Quran. Former Muslim here.
“The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace[4] , not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger [5] (i.e. those who knew the Truth, but did not follow it) nor of those who went astray (i.e. those who did not follow the Truth out of ignorance and error).”
And here is the whole thing. Read 7 and what’s under it.
Edit: even though this doesn’t mention Jews per se, there are other “tafaseer” (which means translations of the Quran by different “experts”) that put as Jews alongside Christians and whomever doesn’t believe in Islam. Their beef with the Jews goes back thousands of years.
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LOL. Sounds like you need to do more home work. Search a bit on how the jews were massacred by muslims in the “crusade of banu qeinu-qa” in the year 624 here, and banu qurayzah in the year 627. They literally slaughtered them to the last man. It was literally called by some historians “the massacre of banu qurayzah”. Here. Translate it to english if you can’t read arabic. These are just known historic facts.
Telling me to do home work. lol
Oh, and “people of the book” who were treated fair are christians (they just had to pay Jizyah, which is a form of taxation to keep their religion under islam), not Jews. Jews were/are just universally hated by muslims throughout history.
People of the Book absolutely applied to Jews. Ever heard of the Muslim prophets Noah, Moses, and Abraham? It is the main reason for them fleeing to Muslim countries during Christian persecutions of their communities. Second class, sure, but to say they were only mistreated is a blatant historical accuracy. Iran and Turkey are home to large Jewish communities to this day. Sephardic Jews, from Spain, were expelled by Catholics, after living for several hundred years under the Umayyad Caliphate.
Iran’s issue is with the existence of a Jewish state. Not the existence of Jews in the world.
Please educate yourself before acting like you know better. A basic Google search can literally disprove much of what you claim.
Sure, buddy. You are the one who was born a muslim and was indoctrinated to shit to hate the Jews since a very young age. LOL. Please educate me. Good talk
Soft as puppy shit
Where have you been?
Didn’t a Ukrainian women get disqualified from Fencing recently for understandably not shaking hands with a Russian opponent? What are the rules, would this bloke have been disqualifed if he hadn’t shook the others hand?
Fencing has a customary handshake.
And an alternative tapping of the swords, which the Russian refused.
and holding of the sword for tapping was one of the pictures circulated, that made the ukraine fencer look aggressive.
Fencing is kind of different, as far as I know you shake hands (or tap swords) before fencing to indicate that you aren’t actually going to try and murder each other. Weightlifting isn’t the same in that regard. Though I’m just speculating on the specific rules around this
With the protective gear they’re wearing, I’m pretty sure that you couldn’t murder your opponent even if you wanted to.
The injury rate in fencing is just marginally higher than the injury rate in synchronized swimming or table tennis.
They are opposed to even the most basic form of civility. Yeah, we already knew that, this just makes it clear to the doubters.
Djeezus… Sports should be above politics. Shitty stuff.
Yeah none of that politics stuff like how Jackie Robinson playing baseball definitely wasn’t political, and the US vs Soviets 1980 Olympics definitely wasn’t politically charged, and people definitely were expressing their dislike of the Soviets during the game or the entire point of the Olympics being a peaceful gathering of nation states for competition ia definitely not political, or all the taxpayer money that goes to building stadiums also isnt political, or that the owners of sports teams are politically active isnt… political. Oh… wait.
They said, it should be, not that it is.
Eh I tend to find that nothing is truly apolitical. Everything that exists is affected by politics. If you start looking you can find how politics plays a role in everything.
Like this bottle of Coke I’m currently drinking. The corn syrup used in it is super cheap because the agriculture industry is heavily subsidized to grow corn, the logos and branding falls under trademark and copyright law, the plastic that makes up the bottle has regulations on the types of plastic used and can only use food safe plastics, and that plastic is a product of petroleum, so fossilr fuel lobbying isninvolved too, the water that Coca Cola uses could very well have come from a source that was plundered by a PMC (look up Nestle for that one) and stolen from locals. And then just because I throw the bottle into recycling, doesn’t mean as soon as it leaves my hand that it’s properly handled along the entire processing and doesn’t just end up in a landfill anyway. And that’s not talking about all the different lobbyists from all the various industries that play a role in making, shipping and disposing of a bubbly brown liquid in a bottle made of polymerization petroleum.
I do agree, but I also imagine, they did not literally mean that politics should never occur in all of sports.
They probably meant that sports competitions should be held with mutual respect, independent of politics. If you can’t shake someone’s hand, you’re not either going to be cool with them winning, so there’s a big risk of you not competing fairly. That’s the bare minimum where politics need to be kept out of sports.
Mutual respect and being apolitical are definitely not the same things. Like I said, politics has always been a part of sports.
“Unforgivable”. These idiots…
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Meanwhile, Iran actually has a seat in parliament that is reserved for a Jewish representative.
That’s Iran-ic
I’ll show myself out
We refuse to normalize Zionist settlers.
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