Any lingering doubts as to whether Iran’s president is a fanatical anti-Semite should be laid to rest by the news that Iran will sponsor a conference to examine the “scientific aspect” supporting the Holocaust.
On Saturday, President Ahmadinejad urged the West to be sufficiently open-minded to allow a free international debate on the Holocaust. This was followed by a statement from Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi:
It is a strange world. It is possible to discuss everything except the Holocaust. The Foreign Ministry plans to hold a conference on the scientific aspect of the issue to discuss and review its repercussions.
To assume that Iran would not use nuclear weapons is to assume that the Tehran regime is rational. The decision to hold a party for the world’s Holocaust-deniers is an unnecessary and counterproductive act, as (1) the mullahs already have extremely well-established anti-Semitic credentials, and (2) it will further isolate Iran on the international stage. In other words, this decision shows the irrationality of Ahmadinejad and his cohorts. Irrational fingers must be kept away from nuclear triggers, even if the only way to do so is war.
Hat-tip: Pigilito
See also: The Guardian, IranMania, CNN,
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The slowly building consensus that Iran is presently governed by an irrational theofascist government can only be helped by holding a “conference on the scientific aspect” of the Holocaust.
If there is to be a regime change in Iran, then Iran’s extremist government must be constantly covered in depth by the world’s media; only good can come from hundreds of reporters from the world media converging upon such an Iranian ‘conference’ and reporting its ‘scientific’ conclusions. Would that we had had more media coverage of Hitler’s ‘scientific’ theories of racial ‘purity’; this Iranian conference will expose the ayatollahs’ dedication to religious ‘purity.’
While in Iran, the world press can watch the official videos that the Iranian government plays on Iranian television (the one Memri recorded that s full of death skulls, flames, the Statue of Liberty as the whore of Babylon—with the Star of David in the background—is highly enlightening, and should be part of the ‘scientific aspect’ of media attention at the conference).
Regime change in Iran HAS to be internal, and the greater is the exposure of the Iranian theofascist form of civil government, the sooner the Iranian people will upend their theocracy. See Samuel I and Samuel II for the agony of the ancient Hebrews in throwing off their theocracy.
Never isolate a thug, or give him the shelter of the dark night. It is the bright light of day that ends the thug’s absurd hold on our freedom.
Let’s have that Iranian ‘scintific conference’ – the sooner, the better; and let’s be sure that the entire world press is invited to attend.
“Let’s have that Iranian ’scintific conference’ – the sooner, the better; and let’s be sure that the entire world press is invited to attend.”
Amen, but there isn’t there some irony in the fact that such a conference (even with the oversight of the world press) would be illegal in France and elsewhere?
Indeed, Austria would have to let David Irving out of jail to attend.
People who deny the Holocaust should be defeated by evidence, not statute. Muzzling the ideologues and eccentrics (along with neo-Nazis) is a self-defeating strategy. It is sad, but Iran’s “scientific conference” will attact plenty of attention precisely because the revisonists have been silenced rather than defeated once and for all.
I’m not a fan of the term “Islamofascist” because I think it obscures important differences between fascism and militant Islamisicsm, but I read this report with equal distress.
I’m lest convinced than ast that the marketplace of ideas will work here. People (in this case, read Arabs and Muslims) who want to believe the Holocaust never occurred – precisely because it undercuts the rationale for Israel’s right to exist – aren’t likely to be swayed by the problems with the standard arguments made by the Holocaust-deniers. Instead, having these bogus claims repeated in an authoritative context is likely to swing them further in the wrong direction. On the other hand, I agree that silencing via statue isn’t terribly effective either. No good options….
Perhaps we’re misunderstanding what the President of Iran intends. Perhaps his scientific examination is intended to identify lessons-learned so that his nation can “improve” on the earlier effort.