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| Ahmadinejad to hold Holocaust denial conference in Tehran |
| 2006-01-08 |
| Iran has decided to rewrite and revise the history of the Holocaust. Following the repeated declarations by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and other senior government officials on the need to re-examine the history of the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War, the association of Islamic Journalists of Iran has been tasked with quickly putting together an international conference on the Holocaust. "President Ahmadinejad has placed at the centre of international attention, a very important question on the truthfulness of the version that Europe and the Zionists have imposed on the world on the murder of Jews during the years of the great war, and therefore we are of the opinion that it is useful and necessary to organise an international conference on that theme, where all the historians and researchers, even those that do not believe in the official version, will be able to express themselves freely," Mehdi Afzali, spokesperson of the Association of Islamic Journalists told Adnkronos International (AKI). "We want to offer a free and democratic platform to the historians to examine in-depth this myth, seeing that in different European countries there exist laws against democracy and freedom that to do not allow intellectuals who believe in a version distinct from that which is officially pronounced on the Holocaust," added Afzali. "We will invite those who believe in the imposed version as well as all those who have spent years of their lives in the study of documents related to the Holocaust and have come to the conclusion that the history books in schools and universities do not correspond to the truth," said Afzali, who however refused to supply the names of the revisionist historians who have been contacted to appear in the conference in Tehran. Revisionists are those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened. In Iran, books by the English historian, David Irving, currently in custody in an Austrian jail after having been accused of denying the Holocaust, are very popular. Among the names of possible guests at the conference are the Israeli journalist lsrael Shamir, a convert to Christianity, and Horst Mahler from Germany, a former member of the the terrorist group, the Red Army Faction. Other revisionist scholars, such as the French Robert Faurisson and the American Arthur Butz, are also some of the other possible participants of the conference in Tehran. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #14 And some fishermen get pulled overboard and drown. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-01-08 20:30 |
| #13 Ahmadinejad is doing everything he can to bait the US and/or Isreal into an attack. |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2006-01-08 20:19 |
| #12 War Within Range - FrontPage Mag.com On January 3, Iranâs Revolutionary Guards Corps began a two day seminar in Tehran devoted to nuclear-biological-chemical warfare and new defense technologies, that included lectures by Iranian experts on electromagnetic pulse weapons, graphite bombs, and laser-guided bombs. These are the same weapons many Western intelligence analysts believe Iran will attempt to use against us. On January 4, three battalions of the IRGC ground forces began three days of NBC military exercises in Semnan province, not far from Iranâs main ballistic missile proving ground. In addition to a recent $1 billion arms agreement, announced last month, Russia is now negotiating with Iranâs Revolutionary Guards to modernize Iranâs fleet of MiG-29 fighters with state-of-the-art radar, electronic counter-measures, and reconnaissance systems, specifically designed to counter the threat of Israeli aircraft. A Rev. Guards buying mission will visit Lukhovitsy and Kalayazin in Russia to view these new systems in February 2006. The Russians have also agreed to sell Iran S-300 anti-missile systems, believed by most experts to be superior to any comparable system currently available on world markets. ... The resumption of enrichment activities, which could give Iran the special nuclear material needed to make nuclear weapons, has long been sited by Israel as the âred lineâ they would not allow Iran to cross. Iran now appears ready and willing to cross that red line. And with Mr. Sharon sidelined from Israeli politics, Israeli military leaders are unlikely to bet on a prayer and a chance that Iran just might be bluffing. After all, as Iranâs Larijani himself said, Israel is âwithin our range.â |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-01-08 15:59 |
| #11 How many delegates from Georgetown and Harvard will be attending? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-01-08 12:08 |
| #10 Let's not jump to conclusions. Perhaps history is more flexible that we think. After the election I'm going to going for a $500 appropriation for an institute(I'm thinking Parkersburg) to revisit the so-called "slavery" issue. Times change, maybe history does too. |
| Posted by: Bob Byrd 2006-01-08 11:29 |
| #9 Man to dignify this with a conference is so wrong. Dachau, unless you know about it to go see it, you would never know that it was there. The locals walk past it without any thought given at all to it. In several small towns in Germany, Gemunden Au Main to name one, has a plaque that tells of how the synogague was blown up by the Nazi's. They fail to mention how the town's people desecrated it prior to it being blown up. Not to mention how most the cemetery's for the jewish people are on steep hillsides, and in bad repair. I was fortunate enough to see this and hear from elders to remember what happened along with crystal night and other historical events. Sad to see that these animals are changing history to suit their ambitions. Very worrisome indeed. |
| Posted by: Jan 2006-01-08 11:06 |
| #8 Actually, mhw, that's a great idea. But no one from outside the US will attend, probably, because that would mean they might actually have to be critical of Muslims, and the international community would NEVER stand for that. Another idea for this Holocaust Denial conference: find a printer in Iran who can print yards-long cloth with genocidal images from Dachau, etc. Sew the cloths together so that they extend for blocks. Protestors could line the area, holding up the images, so that whatever Ahmedinejad wants to show, behind it will be the other story. Of course, he and his Iranian thugs would crack down on such 'blasphemy', but timed right, that could be captured on film. OK, so that idea's a fantasy, but it was an appealing image there for a while... |
| Posted by: jules 2 2006-01-08 10:54 |
| #7 there ought to be a counter conference on the genocide against Armenians in Turkey (actually two periods of massacres) and the 6oo year genocide of Hindus by Moslems and the continuing ethnic cleansing of Bangla and Pakland and... |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-01-08 10:22 |
| #6 This sounds like a good idea. Let David Irving (and David Duke) attend. Then one JDAM... |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-01-08 10:01 |
| #5 #3: Is this the same Holocaust...the one he's denying, that is....that he says Europe is trying to finish through the creation of the state of Israel? Oh come on now, surely you've heard the statement "Don't bother me with the truth, my mind's made up" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-01-08 09:45 |
| #4 What? No Norm Finklestein? |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-01-08 09:06 |
| #3 Is this the same Holocaust...the one he's denying, that is....that he says Europe is trying to finish through the creation of the state of Israel? |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-01-08 08:15 |
| #2 Holocaust denial - coming soon, to a University near you. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-01-08 06:43 |
| #1 So? Arabs, including the state press of the sooo pro-western Mubarak, has been doing it for decades. For that matter, any mention of the Holocaust in Euro school-history books? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-01-08 06:32 |