- The first cracks in the political and
legal edifice to protect the Holocaust industry from criticism have started
to appear and are likely to widen over time.
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- The German magazine Der Spiegel has landed
a major coup in its latest edition - not for doing a rare exclusive interview
with the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, but for allowing him to
express views which would have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence, had
they been stated by a German national. It is not clear whether this was
the intention of Der Spiegel, which in an editorial distanced itself from
the remarks by the Iranian president, but the publication will have been
as decisive a step towards scrapping the thought crime laws dating from
the period of allied occupation as the publication of "Crabwalk"
by the famous German author Günther Grass a few years ago.
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- Grass' book was the first to break the
taboo of talking about Germans and Germany in other terms than those of
the evil perpetrators when dealing with the Second World War. He highlighted
those "Other losses" and gave German readers the sense that they,
too, had been victimised by those events.
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- Discussing the Holocaust and the shadow
it cast over Germany and generations of Germans, however, remained taboo,
and German citizens would not only be punished for "defaming the memory
of the dead", but even for not balancing any remarks casting doubt
on the official holocaust dogma with the usual mantra of the eternal victimisation
of Jews who were thereby absolved from any culpability for whatever they
have done or might do to anybody else.
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- In 1997, for example, a German court
found Udo Walendy guilty not for knowingly publishing lies but for publishing
a "one-sided" account of history and not giving sufficient attention
to alternative interpretations. He was charged of having "on a very
scholarly-historical basis" published quotations and facts that contradicted
"in many specific points, the accepted version of German guilt for
the Holocaust and other National Socialist crimes".
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- Freedom of speech? For Walendy, Deckert,
Toben, Rudolf and Zündel it comes at the price of several years in
prison.
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- So Der Spiegel filled several pages with
a rebuttal of what Ahmedinejad had to say, but it allowed him to question
the veracity of the official Holocaust version, let him get away with saying
that if the Holocaust happened as claimed and Germans or Europeans were
collectively guilty then Israelis should be repatriated to Europe, and
if it didn't then there was even less justification for the Palestinians
to suffer occupation and injustice at their hands.
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- The Iranian president was even allowed
to challenge the anachronistic situation where scientific research into
the Holocaust is punishable by prison under German law, should it result
in findings unfavourable to or objectionable by the Jewish lobby - and
he was given permission to say that the young generation of Germans should
not be made to feel guilty for whatever their great grandparents might
have done, and that Germans should stop allowing themselves to be humiliated
by the Zionists after having paid reparations for decades.
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- So far there has been condemnation of
Ahmedinejad - who performed infinitely better in this interview than in
his lengthy letter to the [American] president - but no threat of legal
action against Der Spiegel.
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- If this published interview remains unchallenged
in the courts, then it should now be permissible in Germany to report the
views of Holocaust revisionists, and as long as the revisionists themselves
are not German, no charges would be brought. Germans, hitherto forbidden
from discussing these issues, might now do so simply by quoting what others
have said without adding their own opinion or judgment.
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- The first cracks in the political and
legal edifice to protect the Holocaust industry from criticism have started
to appear and are likely to widen over time.
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- -- Dr Sahib Mustaqim Bleher is a German
living in England, a Muslim and a pilot - in today's oppressive neo-fascist
climate this means walking a tight rope. And it requires speaking out.
He has done so through articles, pamphlets and books, many of which are
available via his web site FlyingImam.com
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