Iran to host debate on Holocaust

[barb162]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4615172.stm

Last Updated: Sunday, 15 January 2006, 18:00 GMT

Iran to host debate on Holocaust

Iran says it will hold a conference to assess the scale and consequences of the Holocaust, which its president recently described as a "myth".

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also sparked international condemnation by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map", or moved to Europe or the US.

An Iranian spokesman said the seminar would examine the "scientific evidence" supporting the Holocaust.

Six million Jews were killed in Nazi persecution during World War II.
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[Hissyspit]

1. No serious scholar will go? So it's a joke and propaganda?

Lots and lots of WITNESSES to the Holocaust?

So fuck the Iranian government and their propaganda?

[Donkeykick]

2. IMO:

This nut will eventually be driven out one way or another - most chances are politically!(Seeing what is going on next door and all);)

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also sparked international condemnation by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map", or moved to Europe or the US.

[Boojatta]

3. "It is a strange world. It is possible to discuss everything except..."

July 1991: Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, Hitoshi Igarashi, is stabbed to death.

January 2006: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said, "It is a strange world. It is possible to discuss everything except the Holocaust."

[catmother]

4. and what does expect to gain. even if the holocaust were a myth

which it certainly was not, what does that have to do with iran.

[barb162]

6. What does that have to do with Iran?

Nothing. And everything.

[catmother]

8. explain that please.

[barb162]

10. Ahmadinejad considers Israel a thorn in his side

For starters, he knows Israel doesn't want him to have nukes, he wants Israel out of the Mideast, etc. Recall some of his previous comments.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4510922.stm
Iran's president says move Israel



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527142.stm

Iranian leader denies Holocaust

[catmother]

11. thank you. i see what you mean. he wants israel out of the mid

east and that's part of his reasoning -- the holocaust did not happen.

[rumpel]

5. Japanese Court rendered a 207 page ruling.

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=253162&ct=286721

February 17, 1999

WIESENTHAL CENTER HAILS JAPANESE COURT'S 'HISTORIC' RULING ON THE NAZI HOLOCAUST

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has hailed a February 16 ruling by the Tokyo Regional Court which confirmed the Holocaust as a historic fact.

Judge Koike Nobuyuki, in a 207-page document, confirmed that the Holocaust was an internationally recognized fact and that the post-World War II Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal was a legitimate court. In doing so, defamation charges against Professor Martin Kaneko and Mainichi Shimbun journalist Tachiro Kajimura by Berlin-based freelance writer and Holocaust denier Aiji Kimura were dropped. In the past, Kimura has asserted that the gas chambers were not used by the Nazis during WWII to murder European Jews, and charged defamation when Professor Kaneko criticized his baseless allegations in the Japanese newspaper.

"Last year, the presiding judge had refused to decide whether the gas chambers had existed," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights association that closely monitors world-wide Holocaust denial. "At the time, the court indicated that it would only deal with the narrow issue of defamation and not to take judicial note of the Holocaust. This new decision is a major victory for historic truth and against Holocaust deniers around the world. It will be used to combat similar efforts by racists around the world."

For more information, contact the Wiesenthal Center's Public Relations Department, 310-553-9036 OR 818-519-9690.

[barb162]

7. Thanks. Japan, Germany, etc., can decide it's a historical fact

but some still fight it mightily

[Coastie for Truth]

9. What wil Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy be?

He is certainly no Xerxes I, more likely Haman the Agagite. And Persia needs to rid itself of Haman - and Vashti -- and bring in Esther and Mordechai to clean house and restore a Xerxes.

[Andromeda]

12. Ahmadinejad is insane.

How can anybody take this man seriously? There's already been a backlash against him and now they come up with this.

I can't wait to see what their scientific examination will reveal.:crazy: