Ahmadinejad Continues to show his Holocaust Denial Idealism
Posted Tuesday September 22, 2009 at 6:29pm in History, Iran, News, Politics
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again. The fanatical Iranian leader is further pushing the envelope on being one of the most hardcore contemporary Holocaust deniers. Of course you are unfamiliar with the likes of a ‘holocaust denier’ they contain the belief that no one ever attempted genocide on the Jewish population in Europe or the Middle East. According to the Associtated Press via Yahoo News, Ahmadinejad made a speech on Friday where he questioned whether or not the Holocaust actually happened. Nasser Karimi and Lee Keath of the AP writes:
During a speech Friday, he questioned whether the Holocaust was ‘a real event’ and called it a pretext used by Jews to trick the West into backing the creation of Israel. He said the Jewish state was created out of ‘a lie and a mythical claim.’1
To an extent, I wish I could meet the Iranian leader. I wouldn’t want to talk to him. I hold a passionate contempt for the man. I see him as one who has the potential for being a modern day Adolf Hitler. What I would do at this meeting would be to hand him a copy of Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman’s Denying History: Who says the holocaust never happened and why do they say it? I would implore him to read it. If he did, I would love to hear his refutation. I do not understand how anyone can still be alive and hold such ideals. We all know that I have commented on Ahmadinejad previously. I don’t want to rehash too much of the old posts. However, I think it is hard for anyone to truly attempt to deny how Ahmadinejad feels. He continuously speaks of how the holocaust apparently never happened, and how they deserve to be destroyed.
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1. Nasser Karimi and Lee Keath, “Iran’s Ahmadinejad proud of Holocaust denial.” Associated Press, September 21, 2009, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran (accessed September 22, 2009).
