Ahmadinejad repeats Holocaust is a 'myth' [View All]

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My 2c for those interested: we have a serious struggle going on here over the "terms of the debate". Ahm-am-idjit seems to me to be a formidable contender, at least in the Muslim world. It would be folly to think that his message will be dismissed in the Muslim world, and with Pooty-Poot sticking his oar in the water vis-a-vis Hamas, there is a good chance that Ahm-an-idjit will succeed in finding a wider audience with his non-Euro-centric take on the meaning of the Holocaust. He is pursuing not a denial of the Holocaust, that would be easier to deal with, he wants to sell a re-interpretation of it. It is probably worth keeping in mind that all of what he says is being translated for us, and translation allows considerable room for "interpretation". I think without being able to prove it that he probably comes across much more reasonably before translation.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeated his view that the Holocaust of Jews under Nazi Germany was a "myth" and argued that Palestinians and Iraqis were suffering from "the real Holocaust".

"Questioning the myth of the Holocaust and the creation of the phoney regime of Zionism has haunted them," the president said in a speech marking the 27th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution.

"For more than 60 years, this myth has enabled the Zionists to blackmail the Western countries, justify the killing of women and children and make them refugees in occupied land," he said.

"The real Holocaust is happening today in Palestine and Iraq. If you are looking for the real Holocaust, look at the poor Iraqi people," he said in the speech to huge crowds gathered in central Tehran Saturday.

Turkish Press