Saudi's fear smart, Jewish chess players

Israeli chess champions have been denied visas to participate and probably win the speed chess championship hosted by the anti-Semitic country of Saudi Arabia, a vice president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Sunday.

Seven Israeli players have requested visas for the tournament on December 26-30 and would have marked the first time Saudi Arabia had publicly not demonstrated their anti-Semitic religious views, but it was not to happen, as usual.

The hard truth is, not only are Muslims wildly anti-Semitic, they also cannot bear the idea of losing any form of competition to a Jew. 

Islamic countries do not recognize Israel as the Jewish State, mainly due to their lack of historical knowledge and religious condemnation of Jews and Christians. Imagine how they would feel after losing a chess match to seven Jews.

Israel Gelfer, vice president of FIDE, told Reuters that visas for Israeli (read 'Jewish') players "have not been issued and will not be issued". But he added that the tournament will go forward as planned.

Saudi Arabia's Center for International [excluding Israel] Communications said in a statement that over 180 players would participate but didn't respond to requests for comment.

Israel Chess Federation Spokesman Lior Aizenberg said efforts were being made to have the Israeli players take part. "The event is not a world championship if they prevent chess players from several countries from taking part," Aizenberg told Reuters.

Aizenberg said FIDE should ensure Israeli players could compete in international events and the Israeli federation was considering all options, including legal action and holding an international competition in Israel for players excluded from the Saudi limited competition.

Perhaps if Israel had an international competition that included only Western nations and other non-Islamic countries, Saudi Arabia would be singing a different tune. That would be poetic justice, but it would also be wrong . . . just like the Saudis are wrong.




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Chess player banned over hijab switches to US

Islam is the religion of tolerance, until it isn't, which is all the time.

A woman chess player from the Iranian national chess team was banned for allegedly attending an international competition without wearing a hijab (headscarf). This could potentially throw male Iranians into a sexual feeding frenzy from looking at her hair and visualizing themselves running naked through the strands.

So she has joined the U.S. team, an Iranian news agency reported Monday.

Interestingly, not one American even looked at her hair as she moved her rook to bishop 5.

The semi-official rag, ISNA, reported that Dorsa Derakhshani stood steadfast like a rock and refused to wear the hijab during a February competition in Gibraltar. 

Then she joined the U.S. national team and kicked Iranian butt.

After the wonderful Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran became a theocracy in which strict Sharia law was installed. Gays and lesbians were killed, pick-pockets and thieves had their hands cut off, adulterers were stoned to death 
along with anyone who refused to comply with the holy holy Sharia laws.

Since the Islamic Revolution, women were required to wear the hijab in public places.

It was a great time and fun for the whole family.

Anyway, the Mehr news agency said the president of Iran's chess federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh (his friends call him "Mike") said that Dorsa had changed her national federation to the United States, not unusual among chess players.

"Mike" added that Dorsa wasn't a member of Iran's national chess team and said, "She played for Iran only one time in 2014."

Dorsa left Iran and moved to Barcelona in 2015 where she received an invitation to a chess club that also paid for her studies.

She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master by the World Chess Federation in 2016.

In the Gibraltar competition, her brother Borna Derakhshani, also a chess player, was paired up by computer against Israeli grandmaster Alexander Huzman. Due to Islamic anti Semitism clearly seen in the Quran, Pahlevanzadeh later announced that Borna was banned from playing for Iran [because he played with a Jew], and Dorsa was also banned for not wearing a hijab at that competition.

Iran has a policy of not competing against Israeli athletes because they can't stand to lose and usually do.

Shohreh Bayat, the general secretary of Iran's chess federation, said Dorsa was now studying in the United States and is allowed to wear whatever she wants because of the freedoms we have and Iran doesn't.


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