Post by lennie on Dec 11, 2006 5:13:40 GMT -5
Australian to present Holocaust denial paper
Iran has opened a controversial government-sponsored conference that will allow delegates to question the veracity of the Holocaust.
Prominent Australian Holocaust revisionist Fredrick Toeben will give a paper at the conference called The Holocaust: A Murder Weapon.
Dr Toeben has spent several months in a German jail for inciting racial hatred and is well-known for denying the scale of the Holocaust.
The two-day meeting in Iran has been organised at the request of the country's President, Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
He has described the mass killing of Jews during World War II as a myth used to justify the oppression of the Palestinians.
Denial of the Holocaust is a criminal offence in Germany and the country has launched an official protest against the conference.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Manouchehr Mohammadi says the aim of the conference is to look for answers.
"The first question to be posed is, did the Holocaust actually happen or not?" he said.
"If it did, what was the scale of it?
"The allegation that 6 million Jews were killed, is it true or not?"
Among the participants is French Professor Robert Faurisson, who denies the existence of the gas chambers and was given a three-month suspended sentence in France in October.
Other prominent names on the program of scheduled speakers include US white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke.
The participants will be invited to a private meeting with President Ahmadinejad.
These bastards are sick loonies. Of course there was a holocaust.
Iran has opened a controversial government-sponsored conference that will allow delegates to question the veracity of the Holocaust.
Prominent Australian Holocaust revisionist Fredrick Toeben will give a paper at the conference called The Holocaust: A Murder Weapon.
Dr Toeben has spent several months in a German jail for inciting racial hatred and is well-known for denying the scale of the Holocaust.
The two-day meeting in Iran has been organised at the request of the country's President, Mahmood Ahmadinejad.
He has described the mass killing of Jews during World War II as a myth used to justify the oppression of the Palestinians.
Denial of the Holocaust is a criminal offence in Germany and the country has launched an official protest against the conference.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Manouchehr Mohammadi says the aim of the conference is to look for answers.
"The first question to be posed is, did the Holocaust actually happen or not?" he said.
"If it did, what was the scale of it?
"The allegation that 6 million Jews were killed, is it true or not?"
Among the participants is French Professor Robert Faurisson, who denies the existence of the gas chambers and was given a three-month suspended sentence in France in October.
Other prominent names on the program of scheduled speakers include US white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke.
The participants will be invited to a private meeting with President Ahmadinejad.
These bastards are sick loonies. Of course there was a holocaust.