Video: OIC did hold a moment of silence for Bosnian Muslims, but won't do it for Jews murdered by Muslim terrorists

The extraordinary dhimmitude of the IOC (and by extension the EU) continues to surprise even the most cynical. So they held a memorial for the Bosnian Muslims and not the Israeli athletes slaughtered in cold blood at the Minuch '72 Olympics. Bosnian Muslims? What about the Serbian Christians that were slaughtered by the Bosnian Muslims? These elderly women are appealing to you.

OC president Jacques Rogg, what about a memorial to the 1.5 millionChristian victims of the Armenian genocide? These spineless, amoral miscreants make my skin crawl.

"Craven Silence on Munich at the Olympics" Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest

The Obama administration supports it. So does Mitt Romney. The "it" in question is a moment of silence for the Israeli victims of a Palestinian terrorist organization called Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were murdered. An online petition calling for a minute of silence also exists.

But IOC president Jacques Rogge sees it differently. He's adamantly resisting a formal moment of silence at the opening ceremony of the London Games this Friday: "We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident." When it comes to the Jews, the IOC curls into a fetal ball—as the Boston Globe points out, it has not resisted ceremonies for Bosnia or the victims of 9/11. But Munich is taboo.

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The Olympics has a moral obligation to do better. It more than blotted its escutcheon with the 1936 games in Berlin, which the Nazis exploited to present a friendlier face to the world. The head of the American Olympic Committee was Avery Brundage who later became head of the IOC. Brundage successfully opposed an American boycott. Here is what the Holocaust Museum has to say about Brundage's stance:

He wrote in the AOC's pamphlet "Fair Play for American Athletes" that American athletes should not become involved in the present "Jew-Nazi altercation." As the Olympics controversy heated up in 1935, Brundage alleged the existence of a "Jewish-Communist conspiracy" to keep the United States out of the Games.

He thought Hitler was a great fellow and that the 1936 Olympics one of the greatest ever. The Brundage mindset was on display in 1972 as well, his last as IOC president. The games were suspended for thirty-six hours. "The Games must go on," chairman Brundage declared. So they did.

So the Olympics doesn't have a lot to live up to. It has a lot to live down. This year, the IOC isn't doing a very good job of it. It want to remain silent, in other words, about the importance of silence.

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