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Iran's President Says Holocaust Now Up for Debate
New York Times and Reuters ^ | 9 December 2006 | Staff

Posted on 12/09/2006 5:36:56 AM PST by shrinkermd

The Holocaust is now a subject of serious debate, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.

Iran has invited scholars from 30 countries to attend a conference starting on Monday about the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis.

``For 60 years talking about the Holocaust was a crime in the West but now there is a serious debate about the Holocaust in the media and also in political and popular meetings,'' state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Ahmadinejad sparked an international outcry by referring to the Holocaust as a ``myth'' and saying Israel should be relocated to Europe or North America.

``Even some Western politicians have declared that the original foundation of the Zionist regime (Israel) was a mistake,'' he said on Saturday.

Ahmadinejad has said his questioning of the Holocaust is aimed at encouraging scholarly debate and an examination of the reasons behind the creation of the state of Israel.

Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi has said the Holocaust conference will look at issues such as ``whether the gas chambers were actually used by the Nazis.''

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; hate; holocaustdenial; iran; israel; jews; moonbats; secondholocaust
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NYT has discovered Iranian leaders are paranoids. No doubt this will have little effect on the nonobservant Jewish vote who went 80% for Carter and Kerry. Go figure.
1 posted on 12/09/2006 5:36:59 AM PST by shrinkermd
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Maybe NOW they'll take him seriously at jeffrense.com


2 posted on 12/09/2006 5:40:45 AM PST by D.P.Roberts
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To: shrinkermd

Will James Baker be at this conference.


3 posted on 12/09/2006 5:40:55 AM PST by BlueSky194
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NYT has discovered Iranian leaders are paranoids. No doubt this will have little effect on the nonobservant Jewish vote who went 80% for Carter and Kerry. Go figure.

As long as the Iranians mix in copious amounts of Bush-bashing to their whitewash of the Holocaust, the NYT will eagerly hang onto every word they say.

4 posted on 12/09/2006 5:41:58 AM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: shrinkermd

I suppose if the Germans didnt kill 6 million Jews, the rumor that Stalin killed 10 million Russians is a hoax too?


5 posted on 12/09/2006 5:44:21 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: shrinkermd

The Dunkin Donuts facility at Dachau

6 posted on 12/09/2006 5:47:25 AM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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And the rumor that Islam killed 3000 Americans in 2001, and currently is beheading non-believers in two dozen different countries


7 posted on 12/09/2006 5:47:47 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: shrinkermd
If my father was still alive he would tell them something. He was in one of the units that liberated one of those camps.

One of the few times I ever saw him cry was when he spoke of the children in those camps.

8 posted on 12/09/2006 5:49:53 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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Iran has invited scholars from 30 countries to attend a conference

Maybe Baker and Hamilton will be invited

9 posted on 12/09/2006 5:50:41 AM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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The Dunkin Donuts facility at Dachau

Yep, and who could forget that side-splitting commercial on Nazi radio, "Time To Gas The Donuts"?
10 posted on 12/09/2006 5:54:18 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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I agree that the Holocaust is now a subject of serious debate.  Not whether it happened of course, but that someone is so ignorant as to believe that it did not happen to begin with.

11 posted on 12/09/2006 5:54:39 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.)
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Iran has invited scholars from 30 countries to attend a conference starting on Monday about the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis.

Do we have names of these scholars from 30 countries ??

12 posted on 12/09/2006 5:56:35 AM PST by Mo1 (Thank You Mr & Mrs "I'm gonna teach you a lesson" Voter ... you just screwed us on so many levels)
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Is Jimmy Carter invited?


13 posted on 12/09/2006 5:58:00 AM PST by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser and Shalit, we are praying for you)
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I agree that the Holocaust is now a subject of serious debate.

What possibly can be debated about the Holocaust that already has not been debated, researched or documented ???

To admit there is something more to be debated is to admit the current information is tainted or propaganda.

The only thing that needs debating about the Holocaust is whether or not it will be used as a propaganda tool to influence dupes and anti semitics

14 posted on 12/09/2006 6:01:04 AM PST by Popman ("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: shrinkermd

Then there's the Flat Earth Society, but at least they know it's farcical.


15 posted on 12/09/2006 6:01:38 AM PST by CPOSharky (Lib speak: If it ain't broke, fix it til it is.)
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****the rumor that Stalin killed 10 million Russians is a hoax too?****

Stalin killed well over 10 million. Heck he killed 10 million in 1933 just in the Ukraine. However, that you'll never see in the New York Slimes. (But you knew that)

16 posted on 12/09/2006 6:11:58 AM PST by Condor51 (Tagline Under Construction - Kindly Wear Your Hardhat)
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To: shrinkermd

``For 60 years talking about the Holocaust was a crime in the West but now there is a serious debate about the Holocaust in the media and also in political and popular meetings,'' state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.




Yeah, sure.... We couldn't even mention the Holocaust, or we'd be shot. I remember that, too.


17 posted on 12/09/2006 6:24:56 AM PST by Brilliant
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How can Ahmadinejhad deny the Holocaust when<---If he has his way here will be another one.

There is no doubt in this mind that if Iran gets the Nuclar bomb he will use it on Israel and send his men in to kill anyone who isnt dead already. He has as much as said it.


18 posted on 12/09/2006 6:33:22 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: shrinkermd

Let's hold an international conference to vote on whether or not islam is a religion of peace.


19 posted on 12/09/2006 6:39:07 AM PST by Arpege92 (If you don't stand behind our troops...please feel free to stand in front of them!)
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Why doesn't AhmadineJIHAD just get at what he really wants to do... Help finish Adolf's job for him.


20 posted on 12/09/2006 6:41:49 AM PST by Accygirl
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