{"id":114993,"date":"2024-08-15T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=114993"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:11:22","slug":"16-00-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=114993","title":{"rendered":"French Muslim Olympic Runner Suspended for \u2018Unacceptable\u2019 Anti-Israel, Antisemitic Social Media Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>French Muslim Olympic Runner Suspended for \u2018Unacceptable\u2019 Anti-Israel, Antisemitic Social Media Posts<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Paris 2024 Olympics \u2013 Athletics \u2013 Men\u2019s 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 \u2013 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France \u2013 August 09, 2024. Muhammad Abdallah Kounta of France in action during heat 2. Photo: Reuters\/Sarah Meyssonnier<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A French Muslim sprinter who recently competed in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris has been suspended by the French Athletics Federation for posting antisemitic and anti-Israel messages on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two-time Olympian Muhammad Abdallah Kounta, 29, who competed in the 4\u00d7400-meter men\u2019s and mix relay races during the Paris Olympics, posted hateful messages on X that \u201care as shocking as they are unacceptable,\u201d France\u2019s Minister of Sports Amelie Oudea-Castera said Wednesday in a French-language\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe federation\u2019s president confirmed he has suspended the athlete and referred the matter both to the public prosecutor and to the federation\u2019s disciplinary committee,\u201d Oudea-Castera added.<\/span><\/p>\n

A day earlier, an X account by the name Sword of Solomon\u00a0drew attention<\/a>\u00a0to some controversial French-language tweets posted by Kounta between 2021 and 2024. In the various posts, Kounta praised Hamas terrorists responsible for the Oct. 7 deadly attacks in Israel, \u201cincited hatred of Israel, trivialized the Holocaust and quoted a\u00a0surah<\/em>\u00a0[chapter] from the Koran considering Jews and Christians as enemies,\u201d according to Sword of Solomon, which also shared screenshots of the athlete\u2019s tweets. Kounta additionally reposted a tweet that described France as a \u201ccountry of degenerate racists\u201d and liked the Facebook page of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is internationally designated as a terrorist organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After his old posts on X were resurfaced, Kounta \u2014 who made his Olympic debut in the 2020 Tokyo Games \u2013\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0a picture on social media of himself wrapped in a French flag and wrote in the caption: \u201cI am French, Muslim and proud.\u201d He then apologized if he had offended people with his past remarks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m against genocides and all forms of racism or injustice, and I don\u2019t think I need to prove how much I love my country,\u201d Kounta said. \u201cPeople who were there in the Stade de France [where the athletic events took place] can attest to that fact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

France has seen a\u00a0record surge in antisemitic incidents<\/a>\u00a0since Hamas\u2019 atrocities on Oct. 7, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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French Muslim Olympic Runner Suspended for \u2018Unacceptable\u2019 Anti-Israel, Antisemitic Social Media Posts Shiryn Ghermezian Paris 2024 Olympics \u2013 Athletics \u2013 Men\u2019s 4 x 400m Relay Round 1 \u2013 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France \u2013 August 09, 2024. Muhammad Abdallah Kounta of France in action during heat 2. Photo: Reuters\/Sarah Meyssonnier A French Muslim sprinter who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114993"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115010,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114993\/revisions\/115010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}