OT: Does Iran's President deny the Holocaust?


The Truth About The Tehran Holocaust Conference - By One Who Was
There

When Alexander Baron returned from the Holocaust Conference in
Iran which he attended, he found that what Western media
"reported" about the conference might as well have been on a
different planet.


In December this year a fanatical Islamic Jew-hater convened a
conference in Tehran dedicated to denying the Nazi Holocaust of
the Jews as a prelude to wiping Israel off the map. Jew-haters
including outright Nazis attended from all parts of the globe
burying their ideological differences in order to put this
fiendish plan into action.

The above sums up the consensus on the recent Tehran Conference
on the Holocaust and on its convenor, Iran's charismatic
President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As a participant in that
conference I can report that the Western media is up to its old
tricks of lying in unison again, this time in order to stoke up
the fuels of fire against Iran. Not content with sending nearly
three thousand American and over a hundred British servicemen to
their deaths in Iraq while plunging that country into a civil
war in all but name, the hawks in Washington are now preparing
to start another war, this time against Iran.

Iran we are told is a threat to world peace, it is developing
nuclear weapons which will be used against Israel. The lies go
on. So what is the truth?

The truth is that the roots of this conference lie in a series
of blasphemous cartoons which the enemies of Islam thought were
hilarious; now the boot is on the other foot and the
Islamophobes are laughing no more. In September last year a
Danish newspaper published a number of cartoons about the
Prophet Muhammad. Although Islam is far from the intolerant,
patriarchal, totalitarian philosophy it is often portrayed as,
there are two things you never do. You do not spit on the Holy
Koran, and you do not guy the Prophet. The prohibition against
any representation of Muhammad is particularly severe, not
because he is regarded as divine or sacred; unlike Jesus of
Nazareth he did not claim to be the Son of God. Muhammad was a
real historical person, he actually existed. Just take it from
me, you dont mess with Muhammad.

Nevertheless, some people regard this prohibition as a violation
of their right of freedom of speech and freedom of expression,
so they defended the newspaper in the wake of anger and protests
from Islamic organisations. If this defence had gone no further
than the usual mutterings about freedom of expression, that
would have been the end of it, but seeing Muslim anger aroused,
and determined to push their luck just for the sheer hell of it,
a number of foreign newspapers reprinted the cartoons, an act
which led not only to rising anger in the Islamic world but to
violence and even murder.

While no reasonable person would condone acts of murder even in
response to gross blasphemy, there can be no doubt that the
Western media must bear the responsibility for a large slice of
the violence that followed. Free speech or not, no one has the
right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre; Western newspaper
editors may be many things but by and large they are not stupid.
They must surely have known that murder and mayhem would follow
if Muslims felt they were being pushed too far. If nothing else,
they must each and every one of them have been acutely aware of
the fact that there are extremists within the Islamic community
who will use any pretext to resort to violence. Havent they
heard of September 11?

Seeing his religion offended and the blasphemers defended on the
grounds of free speech, some bright spark in Iran decided that
sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander, and the newspaper
Hamshahri announced that it would hold a Holocaust cartoon
competition.

"Does the West's freedom of expression extend to... an event
such as the Holocaust or is this freedom of expression only for
the desecration of the sanctities of divine religions?" the
paper asked. That is what is known as a rhetorical question,
because international outrage followed at this blasphemy against
the religion of the Holocaust.

Enter the President of Iran. The name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was
all but unknown in the West until he called for Israel to be
wiped off the map. True or false? The first part is true; the
second part is a lie. What he actually said was that the Zionist
entity Israel would go the same way as the Soviet Union, it
would simply cease to exist, and all its citizens, Gentile and
Jew, would be much better for it. It may be that this claim is
wishful thinking, but it is certainly not genocidal.

Ahmadinejad is a plain speaking man, and when it comes to
International Zionism, he is totally fearless, unlike the
overwhelming majority of Western politicians and all Western
statesmen.

In December last year he was quoted thus by the official BBC
website: "If someone were to deny the existence of God... or
prophets and religion, they would not bother him. However, if
someone were to deny the myth of the Jews massacre, all the
Zionist mouthpieces and the governments subservient to the
Zionists tear their larynxes and scream against the person as
much as they can".

For once this quote is accurate. An honest person may disagree
with the first part of that statement, but no honest person
could take issue with the second part.

This week, the Iranian Government went one better than Hamshahri
when it hosted the first ever Holocaust conference of its kind.
There have of course been numerous conferences on the Holocaust
before, including those organised by Revisionists, but never has
a meeting of this nature been funded and hosted by a government.

I was one of those selected from some eight hundred applicants
to present an original paper on the Holocaust. The Iranian
Government paid for my ticket and accommodation, although I was
not offered any inducement or bribe to attend. Our hosts
extended us every courtesy, although they did not bend over
backwards to try to impress us. I have no illusions about Iran
and although I saw precious little of Tehran in the short time I
was there and nothing at all of the rest of the country, it was
obvious that the good will of the regime was sincere. There was
no hatred of either Westerners or Americans evident. Street
signs and shop signs are often in English as well as Farsi;
Western TV programmes including American music are ubiquitous.

The title of my paper was THE NAZI GAS CHAMBERS: Rumours, Lies
And Reality - One Researchers View. This is a subject dear to my
heart. I dont claim to be an expert and am not an accredited
historian, but I have been reading this subject for a quarter of
a century, and over the past eighteen years I have researched
certain aspects of the Holocaust in greater depth than the vast
majority of bona fide historians. My researches have led me to
believe that undeniable though it was during the Holocaust and
World War II, the full extent of Jewish suffering has been
greatly exaggerated, and I told my audience so adducing evidence
in support of my arguments at every point. Not every speaker was
so meticulous, but not every speaker shared my viewpoint. Among
the speakers at this conference were members of Neturei Karta,
the ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist sect. Rabbi Ahron Cohen said it
was ridiculous to deny the Holocaust, meaning the genocide of
the Jews, and said that it didn't matter if six million, five
million or some lesser number were murdered by the Nazis, nor
did it matter if the victims died in the gas chambers or by the
bullet, it was still genocide.

Neturei Karta are often derided as cranks, but they are the real
Jews, the men and women who practise the undiluted,
uncontaminated essence of Judaism. All shades of opinion were
present including one or two nutty Arabs and people who espoused
genuine anti-Semitism, but the conference was all the better for
it.

Contrary to the Western media's assertions, the conference did
not declare the Holocaust a myth, although some individual
participants were surely of that opinion.

At the end of the presentations on the second day the speakers
were taken to what I presumed was the Presidential Palace where
we met the great man himself. I say great man because that is
what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is; he is the Tehranosaurus Rex of
statesmen, Mahmoud the Tehranible. You may not think he is
right, you may not even like him, but you have to admire the
guy. If half a dozen statesmen had exhibited the same courage,
forthrightness and honesty over International Zionism and the so-
called Jewish Question over the past fifty years the Middle East
would not be in the sorry state it is in now, there would have
been no Gulf Wars and probably no Six Day War or Yom Kippur War
either. The Palestinian problem would almost certainly have been
solved, or at the very least these wretched people would not
still be living in rat-infested camps strewn halfway across the
region.

When we met Ahmadinejad he repeated what he had said about the
Zionist entity, and so there could be misunderstanding his
intentions he embraced several rabbis.

One of the major speakers at the Conference was David Duke. In
an earlier incarnation Duke was a leading member of the Ku Klux
Klan, something he has never been allowed to forget. White
Supremacist or White Separatist or both, Dukes bigotry, if it
exists, does not extend to the mass murder of innocent
civilians. He stated quite clearly that the US Government and
media (which he sees as Zionist-controlled) is itching to start
a war with Iran, and made an impassioned plea that it be averted.

Although like everyone else at this conference I have no
illusions about Jewish/Zionist power or mendacity I dont see the
hidden Jewish hand behind every event on the world stage, but
there can be no denying the fact that International Zionism and
its allies do want war.

In the last few weeks the Bush Administration has suffered an
outburst of realism; a ground war and invasion of Iran is
probably now out of the question, public revulsion at the
inevitable loss of life would be too much for even the sheep-
like American public, but it is not impossible that the
Americans may make a "pre-emptive strike" against Irans nuclear
facilities, or even more stupidly they may put the Israelis up
to it.

If there is any sort of attack against Iran, the consequences
for Iran, for the United States, for Britain and indeed for the
world will be catastrophic. It must not be allowed to happen.
Ahmadinejad has no intention of using his countrys nuclear
program for malignant purposes, but even if he had, it ill-
behooves the only nation that has ever used nuclear weapons in
anger to tell Iran or any other sovereign nation that it has no
right to develop such a weapons programme.

We in the West, Christians, non-believers and Muslims, Gentile,
Jew and Arab alike, must resist this folly. We must exert
whatever pressure we can against both the American and British
Governments to ensure that Iranian sovereignty is not violated
on any pretext. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man we can do business
with. When Tony Blair condemned the Holocaust Conference, Irans
reaction was to invite him to attend it. Naturally this
invitation was not accepted, but perhaps Blair, or whoever is
running the country then, will attend the next one.

There is a saying that "jaw jaw" is always preferable to "war
war"; many veterans of the First World War, the Great War - of
which there are now so few remaining - believe this and have
gone on record as such. They saw the horror of the trenches; we
too have seen the horrors of war, although most of us
fortunately not at first hand, we experience it vicariously
through CNN or the BBC. Does anyone in the West really want the
madness of Iraq to be extended to Iran? And then where next?
Syria? North Korea?

As I said, Ahmadinejad is a man the West can do business with.
He is currently offering us an olive branch. Anyone who doesn't
like Iran's Holocaust conferences will be more than welcome to
attend the next one and put an alternate point of view - as did
the Naturei Karta rabbis. And anyone who wants to discuss other
matters with the Iranians, like mutual nuclear disarmament,
swords into ploughshares and perhaps developing alternative
energies, will find its President a more than willing listener.
Bear this in mind next time you read that Iran is a threat to
world peace.

The full text of Alexander Baron's speech at the Iran conference
is available online:
http://mathaba.net/z.htm?http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/2006De
cember/contents_program2_Baron.htm

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