Portugal summons Iran Ambassador over Holocaust remarks

Reuters ^ | February 15, 2006

[Shermy]

""Iranian ambassador Mohammed Taheri said: "When I was ambassador in Warsaw, I visited Auschwitz and Birkenau twice and made my calculations. To incinerate 6 million people, 15 years would be necessary.""

Sounds like the Iranians are looking for pointers.

[Semper Paratus]

To incinerate 6 million people, 15 years would be necessary.

Iran may soon be directly shown that it can be done in under 15 seconds.

[vimto]

why haven't all countries summoned the Iranian Ambassadors and given them a dressing down?

[marron]

Ahmedinejad has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust, the Nazis' killing of 6 million Jews during World War Two, took place. He has also called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

Translates as "that was no holocaust; I'll show you what a holocaust looks like."

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Historians need to get together to give their opinions," the envoy added."

TRANSLATION:

Moslem "scholars" want a forum to rewrite history.

[isrul]

Yep. I just love those wonderful advances in technology, especially when it can serve such a worthwhile cause. Light 'em up!

[Shermy]

I don't know if it would do anything but please the psychos.

I read when Ahmedinejad was elected, he recalled many of the fanatic ambassadors and replaced them with worse ones. Nukes and the Holocaust seem to be their obsession.

[crazycat]

Just throw him out, tell him to go home and don't come back.

[AntiGuv]

For the record, there were not 6 million Jews incinerated at the death camps. About 2.5 million of the total were killed by other methods, such as the Einsatzgruppen death squads.

And there are 4 million pages of testimony and documentation that chronicle the Holocaust.

[Shermy]

In this world today that needs to be pointed out over and over, sadly.

Not all victims were burned and there were many more camps and sites than those two the Ambassador visited, gleefully I suspect. His argument is strawman, of the diabolical quality.

[manic4organic]

OK, so now I have to by more Portuguese products. What do they make anyway?

[AntiGuv]

[GAB-1955]

I seem to recall that the technique they used to get rid of most bodies was not the crematoria, but burning bodies on open pyres in steel frames. The Iranian Ambassador was mistaken. I suggest that he be allowed to state his poisonous thought back in Tehran.

[AntiGuv]

Yes, that is correct.

[AntiGuv]

Victim shoes at Auschwitz, Belzec, and Majdanek:

[AntiGuv]

Crematorium pits at Majdanek (the previous two photos were Belsen and Auschwitz):

[Shermy]

"What do they make anyway?"

Port wine is nice.

[Laz711]

Hot chicks........definatly hot chicks.

[StoneGiant]

Portugal has a long memory with regard to Dhimmitude... Unlike Norway, which today created a law banning blasphemy.

The Portuguese won't cut Islam a lot of slack.