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     Olympic 2024 in France has been creating many dramas which are dragging Christians, Palestine-Israel war, LGBT+ community and others. The opening ceremony of the Olympic was deemed as mocking Christians because Drag Queens and other LGBT+ members were posing such as Jesus in Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting called The last Supper. Thereby, Christians are demanding apologize from the personnel behind the curtain. Large amount of people are questioning the person who is behind the opening ceremony. Surprisingly, the artist is pro-Israel Zionist name Thomas Jolly, and he is not merely an ally but Thomas is also taking part of LGBT+ Community. If Zionist could establish the first porn industry and pursuing US to invade Iraq post 9/11 tragedy, then it is incomprehensible to think about the chance to make another propaganda is more likely reach the higher level. However the appropriation on religion has been doing in France long time before the Olympic because as we have known regarding the France is the most openly discuss and criticize anything including religion.

  The critics were also considered as extreme actions such as burning Qur’an, animated prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him, and recently they have been offended Christians by performing Olympic opening ceremony 2024. We should not get shock about France was allowed the performance idea if we had already acknowledged enormous religion controversies in the first place. Perhaps someone is believing the theory regarding France First Lady, Brigitte Macron is a transgender person, it will make more sense because she afraid if one day France will be a religious country who does not support LGBT+ agendas. Beside of that, some people on social media would argue by wondering the reason why the artist and his personnel were targeting Christians instead of Muslims. Personally speaking, those people were asking like the burning of Qur’an and the animation of prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him never happened in France. However, both Islam and Christianity have been forbidding homosexuality for centuries and they should hit the root of issue by punishing the contributor of Olympic opening ceremony rather than wishing the same blasphemy happen for another religion. Furthermore, both beliefs have the same enemy which is Satan, whom have been deceiving many people from the righteous whereby they should not segregate each of them since they believe in God even though they are worshiping different Creator.

     France has been well-known as the freedom of expression such as the free will to dress whatever someone wants, but it will become a problem when woman chose to cover their own body. Women with Islamic scarf or hijab are not allowed to participate in Olympic because they were assuming the hijab is a form of oppression. Furthermore, they probably has watched some of the news regarding the punishment in Middle East countries for not dressing appropriately and following social norms. Quite amount of people would argue the pressure woman got by covering their hair is hindering their freedom of expression. However, we need to acknowledge about Muslims women are willing to wear hijab without any pressure from anybody else if they has chosen to stay outside the majority Muslims countries. In fact, they are not even living in Middle East whereby there is no any single imposes from government and then we can jump to a conclusion regarding the willingness of those women in France is from the bottom of their heart. Beside of that, feminist in France was gone and failed to protect women right to choose their own choices and neglected my body my choice slogan. However, what a waste potential resources when France decided to discriminate women merely because the scarf covering their head. Female basketball player, Diaba Konate cannot join the Olympic even though she has achieved many competition for uplifting the name of France. Maybe France was giving their players’ not to showing the inclusivity and diversity but they are trying to interpreting the diversity of exclusivity. Nevertheless, we should be able to distinguish between liberalism and oppression because freedom in France has not been applied well enough especially for minority.

     As a result, both of the religions should be unite in order to address the main issue which is the appropriation regarding eminent figures whether it was in Christianity, Islam, or another beliefs. The blasphemies were already happened for Muslims in the past years since France is the most open critic for any topics around the world including religion. Nevertheless, the LGBT+ engagement at Olympic opening ceremony was causing the false accusation about male competitor in female boxing.

     Female boxing competition got heated when Italian boxer, Angela Carini has lost the competition against Algerian boxer and accused her opponent as a biological male. Imane Khelif was accused merely because she punched her opponent above the average female boxers’ strength and assuming she was a male by judging the proportion of her body. If you ask me, boxers will expect their competitor to punch them without any hesitation because they are fighting against each other in a well-known contest whereby I do think Imane Khelif was showing that she is not looking down upon her opponents regardless of their looks by showing up the full power she has. “My daughter is a woman, we have all the evidence, including her birth certificate”, said Imane Khelif’s father who was defending her in order to show the allegation is completely false. Moreover, Imane Khelif’s father stated, “my daughter was just stronger than the Italian boxer, she works very hard.”. Nevertheless, some of the people still believe and so adamant regarding Imane Khelif accusation even though Angela Carini wants to apologize after she had seen evidences from Imane Khelif’s relatives. On the other hand, people on social media are making fun of the Italian boxer by creating a meme and stuff, including funding money for Angela Carini in order to for her to gain proper boxing lessons. Nonetheless, extreme right-wingers whom have been engaging with LGBT+ issue felt they have to calling transgender person out of the ring for attending female competition. Furthermore, conservatives were suggesting many LGBT+ people will compete in Olympic because they have seen the Olympic opening ceremony was full of drag queens. Need to be note, we should have done many research before we can jump to a conclusion which could probably tarnishing someone’s reputation. The rumour has been spreader all over the places and many people have been doing something rude and unpleasant towards Imane Khelif. One of the example is coming from Imane Khelif’s quarterfinals opponent, Luca Hamory who was posting on her Instagram account’s about the poster image or graphic which is interpreting and altering Imane Khelif with a monster. Consequently, people were divided merely because the winner is putting more effort than a white woman. Despite Imane Khelif is fighting inside and outside the ring by proving she is a legit female, female athletes in France are also struggle because they cannot participate in Olympic since they chose to wear hijab.

  People has been stood up against the discrimination, yet it seems the liberalism and liberation can only be implement for certain particular people. Therefore, women can get protection by the freedom of expression unless they are not covering their body. The segregation of the participants of Olympic based on their religion or whatever they are believe is one of the discrimination that has not been addressed in France for years. The separation is indicating the hypocrisy which committed in the Olympic selection system in France. Despite the obvious discrimination towards their own civilians, Olympic 2024 in France is shockingly including and being inclusive for the state who has many records of criminal in war they have been committing for decades. Israel and their contribution in Olympic is triggering many problems in the competition.

     The most “moral” army in the world has been chosen and eligible to represent their country; Thereby, it is kind of make sense because Israel has been known with the cruelty of their own soldiers such as bombing civilians in Gaza, racial segregation in West Bank, burning and shooting whether the victim was male, female, adult, or even children, so why not letting IDF soldiers as a face of Israel. Instead of protecting their own country from Iran and Lebanon or essentially from Hamas, they were picking their soldiers to fight against foreign civilians in Olympic. Moreover, IDF troops have many free time such as make TikTok videos and mocked Palestinians by showing the laugh on the rubble in Gaza. In fact, Israel has many options to recruit their soldiers such as conscription of Orthodox Jews if Israel is lacking the number of military groups. However, the controversy is not merely from the side of the participant of Israel and their soldiers but also came from the supporters of Israel.

   Israel fans at the Olympic has frequently showed their intention to backing up Israel by disturbing people who was going to describe the performance of Israel in the competition. Israel advocates were also exaggerating the whole conversation of Israel. It was very sensitive for them to hear the statement or opinion about Israel from foreign people because they are afraid some of the people will spread hatred towards one and only “democracy” state in Middle East. Some of the Israelis said they do not want political engagement in sports, yet they are the same person who is planting and triggering the diplomatic discussion among fans nor audiences. As a result, many people are doubting the intention of Israel in Olympic because they were causing many problem whether inside or outside the Olympic. Furthermore, Israel is going to gain more negative views from people around the world since their actions do not match with their mouth. Nonetheless, bad comments are also attacking Palestinian athletes on social media especially.

     Some of the groups would argue regarding the psychical looks on Palestinians personnel is not similar with the description of Palestinians are being torture and starve in Gaza. In addition they are questioning the name of the athletes are showing they were from another country. It may be because they have been expelled from their own land and ended up giving birth in another country. Maybe the athletes can born in their own country if the aggression and the establishment of the state of Israel never happened. So, their descendants are going to perform and fight for their original homeland which is Palestine. Therefore, Israel should not have included in Olympic 2024 as a form of boycott and punishment for the massive murder they have been doing for approximately 75 years till this day. On the other hand, certain amount of people are theorizing regarding the Olympic is one of the distraction for Israel war with Iran. As a result, everybody’s eyes will focus on Olympic and give Israel the opportunity to change the narrative on Israel-Iran war.

    Olympic 2024 in France has produced many controversies and unique moments whereby it has dragged many current issues, start from the opening ceremony which has deemed as blasphemy for Christianity. Furthermore, conservatives were questioning the idea of mocking their religion instead of other such as Islam because they believed Muslims will handle it extremely. Moreover they will assume without any sights regarding the number of tarnishes have been committed in France for years. Traditional Christians and Muslims have the same problem with LGBT+ community, the blasphemies, also with murdering massive people regardless of their background, ethnicity, religion, race, and so on. Therefore, we should acknowledge the diversity of both religions and embark to unite in order to uplifting the same or similar values. Which neighbours Christians should love, is it the neighbours with the same belief with them or neighbours in broad terms regardless of their circumstances. However, Muslims were also being called overreact and hindered the freedom of speech and expression when they were addressing the issues back in the day. On the other hand, we have some of the right-wings were accusing foreign athlete merely because she was punched her opponents above the strength of female boxers. It could be happened since conservatives especially in west countries have frequently been eating and digesting the news about trans-athletes in sports competition. In spite of the freedom of expression in France made enormous issue with certain religion, liberalism in France has as well discriminated women who chose to cover their own body. The liberation seems not inclusive for French in general but it is exclusive and expensive. Instead, the inclusivity was giving to foreign state who has been doing massive murder towards Palestinians nor they were allowed to attend and participate in Olympic 2024. Therefore, the implication of letting in Israel in Olympic has created many political engagement in sport competition such as IDF soldiers are also competing, Israel’s supporters have been interfered the large number of foreign audiences, putting negative comments on social medias regarding Palestinian athletes and their fans. Israel should have not put on the list of participants if Russia got banned because the on-going war. The double standard went postal.

  The double standard regarding which countries are eligible to be participants in Olympic 2024 has made hypocrisy and has been resulting many political engagement in the competition. Russia cannot join the Olympic due to their war with Ukraine, but for Israel who has been doing not merely war, but including apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, breaking international laws, and against human rights for decades, yet they were still on the list in Olympic 2024. Nevertheless, Israel is not merely committing war in Palestinians’ land but the conflict has been spreading all over the places in Middle East country or in particular Palestine’s neighbours such as Iran, Lebanon, and Syria. Israel might be using the money from America either in order to take a part in the Olympic and threatening the organizer of Olympic with antisemitic or the competition’s stuffs have already been being Zionist members in the first place. Furthermore, Israel connection with Europe countries has been bonded tightly since the establishment of the state of Israel. Despite Israel participation in Olympic, only “democracy” state in Middle East has also been giving their personnel to compete including IDF soldier.

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