From Weasel Zippers:
(Haaretz.com) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the historic dimensions of the Holocaust but rejected the label of an anti-Semite, the Fars news agency reported Friday.
“The West made a claim – about the Holocaust – and urges all the people in the world to accept it or otherwise go to prison,” Ahmadinejad told a group of Islamic scholars Thursday in Nigeria, where he attended a summit of the Developing Eight, a group of countries with large Muslim populations.
“The West allows everybody to question prophets and even God but not to pose a simple question and open the black box of a historic event,” he charged.
Ahmadinejad had earlier sparked international fury by calling for the eradication of Israel from the Middle East and its relocation to Europe or North America and by describing the murders of 6 million European Jews by Germany’s Nazi regime as a “fairy tale.”
He said Thursday that the Holocaust was an excuse for Israel and the West to take land away from millions of Palestinians and give it to Israel.
Iran does not recognize Israel and maintains that a referendum by all Palestinians, including refugees, and Jews should decide the future fate of a Palestinian state.
“We are after a diplomatic settlement through a referendum, but they [the West] say Ahmadinejad wants to kill people and is an anti-Semite,” the Iranian president said.
“No, this is wrong,” he added. “I love all Muslims, Christians and Jews. What I dislike are the Zionists, which are a party that has availed itself of the Holocaust as an excuse to establish the illegitimate state of Israel."
7 comments:
Pastorius,
One would expect nothing less from someone like him. Yet there are people who think that we can reason with him.
Pastorius,
One would expect nothing less from someone like him. Yet there are people who think that we can reason with him.
Yep.
I thought about not posting this, because it is such a dog bites man story, but...
What else to expect from ignorant, hellbent jihadists with world-rule dreams...!?
The statement here by Ahmadinejad rings true. Listen to him, and if you find any aspect of the position incorrect or untrue, comment on his error itself. Those people demonizing the man but are unable to point out his actual error -- to me are the problem.
Anonymous,
Holocaust deniers are next to creationists in the level of empirical evidence they have to back up their position. In other words they have none. There are countless pieces of forensic evidence backing up the claim that the Nazis not only murdered about six million Jews, but many other innocent people who they thought unworthy of life, for incredibly stupid reasons. In addition there is a lot of documentation showing that the Nazis wanted to murder all those people.
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