Olympic Committee Decides Not to Honor the Victims of Terror in Munich Olympics

That is why I didn't respond to your post on the opening ceremony, because I knew this and so I refused to watch it and had my own "moment of silence" I also heard the reason was because they didn't want to "offend" anyone...Mmmmm, wonder who that would be????

I can understand for most of the athletes and ordinary folks the horror unleased by those Palestinian terrorists in Munich Olympics 40 years ago is a very tragic event that had ever happened on those victims and their love one, they should be remembered by moment of silence at the opening ceremony of Olympic game. Unfortunately, those highest up Olympic Committee officials may not considered it is such a tragic loss to the game, those victims are not people of grand status or even VIP at all through the len of their vision, they don't deserved to be honored by this organization of international event, they just want the public to forget about that particular day of terror happened right under their very nose due to failure in safeguarding their compound and atheles' living quarter, their hope incompetency in their hostage rescue mission in Munich can just go away by ignoring this particular day in the history of Olympic.

The question is for how many years will we keep remembering past moments of horror. It is already 40 years and time to move on. So I am with IOC on this and do not feel that we need to have a moment of silence. If we start keep maintaining a moment of silence for every tragic event from the past, I am pretty sure that we will end us spending all our life in silence. I think it is more important to learn the lessons from such incidents and make sure that we do not forget those and then move on to build a better future. Cheers! Ram

I think that when something that hateful and horrific happens on the world stage, a moment of silence is appropriate for as long as the event continues. It stemmed from rabid, blind hatred that can't be reasoned with and is a disease on the face of this earth. The least we can do is honor its victims and call attention to the disgusting culture of hatred an violence that was responsible for this massacre and so many others before and since.

Well, it really would not have hurt to just have a moments silence would it? It would not have taken too much to organise, but maybe they just wanted to focus on the positives of the current games and not rekindle the ugly events of the past. Maybe sometimes it is better to just forget the negative events and not give any energy to them.

Ok, I don't know why we cannot call things by their name for what they are. You said "Victims of Terror". Why do you use such stupid, vague, veiling language? Why don't you just first acknowledge that these are Israelis killed by Arab Muslims to protest Israeli Zionists for killing Arabs in order to force the invasive country of Israel into being in Palestine? People seem so rational and logical in most all other subjects, but when it comes to Israel, suddenly all the human rights violations and murders and killings each and every day by Israel and white American soldiers are called right, and opposition to it is called "Terror". Don't you think "Terrorism" in this case is coming from both sides? The answer simply is yes. So, the topic of this discussion should be "Should we turn the Olympics into more Zionist propaganda or not?" Clearly, some people thought not, and THAT is why there shall be no silence for Israel, for they are not victims, but people who thrust themselves into a situation of kill or be killed, in order to force into being their dream of having a Zionist State for Jews. Aside from political America backing the idea of Israel, nobody other than Israel have any interest in their political circus that they have no interest in clearing up. They can have silences in their own country. Ps: No, I do not take any side in this matter; I believe I was being impartial and calling things as they are. I have no more interest in the promotion of Muslim politics any more than I have in promoting a Zionist state, for one will not work any more or any better than the other. The Olympics is and should be an event for everybody from every country, and not turned into favoring political propaganda for any specific party.