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Brotherhood Retracts "Myth" Comment on Holocaust
A spokesman of Egypt’s Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood retracted yesterday a remark made earlier by the group’s top leader that the Holocaust was a “myth.” In his weekly article posted Thursday on the group’s website, the group’s leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef had described the holocaust as a “myth.”

“American democracy is a democracy (that endorses) a single perspective and attacks anyone who disagrees with the vision of the sons of Zion concerning the myth of the Holocaust,” Akef wrote in echoing similar controversial remarks recently made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But Essam El-Eriane, a Brotherhood spokesman, yesterday retracted the remark, adding that it was “only a minor part of Akef’s article.” El-Eriane told Deutsche-Presse Agentur that the use of the word myth was “inappropriate.” “The Holocaust happened to the Jews like it happened to other groups and we can’t deny that,” El-Eriane said.
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Posted by: Fred 2005-12-24
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