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In reply to the discussion: An exhibition in Iran will mock the Holocaust [View all]jobycom
(49,038 posts)Read what I wrote again, in context, and if you don't understand it, read it a third time.
Nothing I said challenged the Holocaust story. Not one thing. Every point I made was to illustrate how sacred we hold that story as an example to demonstrate how Muslims feel when we ignore the things their culture holds sacred.
Let's take Christopher Columbus. The official story on him is a mess, right? There are still people who claim he discovered a new world. There are people who claim he was a decent guy for his time. There are people who claim he thought the world was flat. There are people who claim he was a genocidal monster (and he was). An historian could argue any of those perspectives, right or wrong, and not suffer any professional consequences, not be ridiculed internationally, not be imprisoned for it. One has the freedom to be wrong about Columbus that does not exist about the Holocaust. Both are terrible examples of genocide. Both have extremely important consequences in current society (if you don't understand that about Columbus, visit any Central or South American nation and bring him up). Only one has laws enforcing the historical accuracy of the story. The Holocaust exists on a different level, because of history, culture, politics, religion, and society, than the story of Columbus (or slavery, or the bombing of Hiroshima, etc).
I'm done with this. You obviously have some emotional need to misread and misrepresent me. Go ahead, post your misrepresentations some more. I won't respond. I won't even read it.