Yes, that is right, I am an angry little jewish girl today. It takes quite a lot to get my goat from politicians. I expect politicians to do stupid things and say things aloud that should have never been uttered. BUt, today I read something that is one of my real... I won't say pet peeve, because it goes well beyond that.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".

"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said.

-BBCNews.com, Iranian leader denies Holocaust

Now, all sorts of fucknubs have denied the holocaust ever happened despite the documented proof, the pictures, the movies, the artifacts and the death camps that still stand as a reminder to the world what genocide is, but I never thought that the President of a country would do it. There are quite literally mountains of proof that the holocaust happened: Mountains of hair, jewelry, coats, shoes, teeth... mountains of remnants of people, of lives, of heritage.

"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," he [President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] said.

I don't have the words to explain how much this truly angers me. I have family who died in the camps. My great-granmother quite literally escaped Hungary with nothing but the clothes on her back and the jewelry sewn into the hems of her skirt. Her brothers, sisters, parents, cousins and friends died in a 'labour camp' in Poland.

I've seen the numbers tattooed on people's arms. I've seen the mountains of artifacts.

Are public figures really allowed to be so ignorant? Not just stupid, but honestly and totally ignorant. It is one thing to be hateful, but quite another to deny a whole chapter of history.

This frightens me.

Posted by Utopia at December 14, 2005 03:02 PM

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