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Iranian Holocaust claims rebutted

…Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened a two-day conference yesterday to question whether the Holocaust took place … Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a myth. At his initiative, the Iranian foreign ministry’s institute for political and international studies is hosting a conference that has drawn 67 foreign delegates from 30 countries. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the objective was “to raise various opinions about a historical issue.”

“If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt,” Mottaki said.

Via TheStar.com

Why they deny the Holocaust

…As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.

Later, as a teenager in Kenya, when Saudi and other Persian Gulf philanthropy reached us, I remember that the building of mosques and donations to hospitals and the poor went hand in hand with the cursing of Jews. Jews were said to be responsible for the deaths of babies and for epidemics such as AIDS, and they were believed to be the cause of wars. They were greedy and would do absolutely anything to kill us Muslims. If we ever wanted to know peace and stability, and if we didn’t want to be wiped out, we would have to destroy the Jews. For those of us who were not in a position to take up arms against them, it was enough for us to cup our hands, raise our eyes heavenward and pray to Allah to destroy them.

Via LATimes.com