It's good to be reminded that, despite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's best efforts, not everyone in the Muslim world buys the line that open mindedness about the existence of the Holocaust is the mark of a freethinker and an anti-imperialist.
The organization Jewish Voice for Peace sends us links to two recently published rants against Ahmadinejad's Holocaust revisionism. At MrZine, Mahmoud al-Safadi, a PFLP member recently released from an Israeli prison, says in an open letter to the Iranian president,
Like you and millions of people in the world — among whom, alas, are innumerable Palestinians and Arabs — I was also convinced that the Jews exaggerated and lied about the Holocaust.
My long imprisonment [in Israel] provided me with the occasion to read books and articles that our ideology and social norms made inaccessible to us outside the prison. The more I learned, the more I realized that the Holocaust was indeed a historical fact and the more I became aware of the monumental dimension of the crime committed by Nazi Germany against the Jews, other social and national groups, and humanity in general.
Whatever the number of victims — Jewish and non-Jewish — the crime is monumental. Any attempt to deny it deprives the denier of his own humanity and sends him immediately to the side of torturers. Whoever denies the fact that this human disaster really took place should not be astonished that others deny the sufferings and persecutions inflicted on his own people by tyrannical leaders or foreign occupiers.
And in an article titled “True Muslims Never Deny the European Holocaust,” Ibrahim Ramey of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation writes,
[The] world now witnesses yet another wave of historical revisionism and Holocaust denial, this time emerging not from European Anti-Semites, but from none other than the President of Iran. Indeed, this head of state has taken the unprecedented act of hosting an international conference of anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers, and even white racists like former Klan leader David Duke, to gather in Tehran to deny the magnitude, if not the very existence, of this barbaric act.
As a Muslim of African decent in the United States, whose ancestors were victimized by the enormous crime of slavery, I object. And I believe that all Muslims, like other human beings who value compassion and truth, must vigorously object to this gathering as well.
Now if we can just get a few heads-of-state as ruffled as Ramey and al-Safadi, we'll be getting somewhere.
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