Arabs and Holocaust denial sixty years later

Jewsweek ^ | 1-30-05 | Steven Stalinsky

[SJackson]

There's good reason why so few representatives of Arab states showed up at the UN's Holocaust commemoration

“No one … takes seriously the lie about six million Jews who were murdered.”

— Gamal Abdel Nasser, Deutsche Soldaten, 5/1/64

To mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the U.N. held a special session on January 24, 2005. It was reported that over 100 nations, including Arab states such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, supported holding the session.

Syria, on the other hand, was among the few countries not to support holding the UN special session. To understand the official Syrian position on the Holocaust one needs to read what is said in its government-controlled media. Discussing the "myth" of the Holocaust in the September 6, 2000 edition of The Syria Times, Mohammad Daoud wrote: "[The] most famous myth is that of the so-called Holocaust… We strongly believe that gas chambers were not used for burning of Jews."

Arab religious leaders also frequently espouse Holocaust denial. Saudi Sheikh 'Adel Bin Ahmad Bana'ma said at a mosque in Jeddah on October 22, 2000: "Today, they [the Jews] disseminate everywhere the lie of the Holocaust and claim that Hitler killed six million Jews in gas chambers… This is pure falsehood." A cleric from Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar University, Mahmoud Muhammad Khadhr, published an article titled "In Defense of Hitler" on May 27, 2001: "It is hard to believe that the Europeans and Americans … cannot address … the false Holocaust, whose numbers and scope they have exaggerated until it has reached the level of the merciless destruction of six million Jews..."

[End Times Sentinel]

See, just read the headline.  You, the holocaust denier, denier are wrong, and I, the holocasut denier, denier, denier am right.  All it takes is one crazy arab...

Owl_Eagle

”Unleash the Hogs of Peace.”
P.J. O'Rourke Parliament of Whores

[parke911]

Who is Al Hubbard?

[SirLurkedalot]

Pepto-Bismol alert.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[End Times Sentinel]

On of John Kerry's crazy "Vietnam Faker" buddies.  Just do a CTRL + F on Hubbard to get to the pertinent part of this article

Owl_Eagle

”Unleash the Hogs of Peace.”
P.J. O'Rourke Parliament of Whores

[DTA]

It is not surprising that Naser was an unrepented Nazi - he got The Iron Cross in WWII and when he got into powerseat, he brought Nazis as security advisers. He was consistent in his belief.

It is not problematic that Nazi ideology is supported by rabid Islamists.

The problem is when rabid Islamists are activelly supported by B'nai B'rith and NJRAC , as happened during Clinton's misrule.

[ichabod1]

I just read that Ike marched a whole division of troops through the camp at Dachau (I think it was Dachau) in order to have thousands of witnesses to counter the inevitable lies of those who would say that it never happened.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Ping!

[NYer]

An interesting adjunct to this discussion can be found in this story.

To many Arabs, discussing the Holocaust is radioactive because they fear it lends justification to Israel and its policies. But even that deep political dispute cannot obscure the fact that Arabs have a relationship with Jews that predates the establishment of Israel, a complex history that provides sources of pride as well as reasons for shame.
Arabs and the Holocaust

[HenryLeeII]

I think you're in denial that there's denial of the denial of Holocaust denial deniers!

[SunkenCiv]

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