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December 13, 2006
Duke's Strange New Family
by Tina Grazier
Most of us in the Republican Party treat him like a shirt-tale relative that no one wants at the family reunion. He's David Duke who always denies his bigotry, biases and hatred even as he runs around demonstrating them for all to see. It's particularly repugnant when he pretends reasonableness and so I found it interesting that yesterday he
just might have found himself a new family:
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's conference questioning the Holocaust came to an end Tuesday, but not before hearing former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke say that gas chambers were not used to kill Jews. "The Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and cover up the crimes of Israel," Duke told a gathering of nearly 70 "researchers" in Tehran at Ahmadinejad's invitation.
Duke found an amazing array of kissing cousins amongst the attendees at the conference...the following is but a sampling of his darkly spirited kindred:
"All the studies and research carried out so far have proven that there is no reason to believe that the Holocaust ever occurred and that it is only a tale," Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, a former interior minister and one of the founders of Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
Nabil Soleiman, an adviser to the ministry of religious affairs in Syria, said, "If the Holocaust ever occurred, it was a conspiracy against the Arab-Islamic world as today the Middle East is still paying the consequences."
Austrian historian Wolfgang Froehlich, who served a two-year jail sentence in his home country for denying the Holocaust, did not read out his speech -- which was handed out to participants -- for fear of being jailed again.
The immediate condemnation from around the world was heartening but none as credible as the testimony from a very brave man who was once a terrorist himself :
When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out...The Israeli Arab Conflict is not about geography but about Jew hatred; Throughout the Islamic as well as Christendom's history Jews have been persecuted, the persecution of Israel is just the same as the old antisemitism... The so called "Israeli occupation" is currently the only real freedom any Arab has had in any part of the Middle East in the 56 years of Israel's existence. - Walid Shoebat
Any chance Mr. Duke will convert or will he abandon this new family and rush back to the safety and freedom of American soil?
Posted by Post Scripts at December 13, 2006 09:15 AM
Comments
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized and ridiculed by his own people? Is the American media allowed to show that? I mean, after all, that doesnt make Bush, troops, or the war effort look bad, and isnt that the criteria for making it on any "credible" news outlet?
Posted by: Nick Freitas at December 13, 2006 07:08 PM
The Iranian government is so detached from reality they don't see their anti-Jewish speaker's list as confirmation of their own absurdity.
Posted by: Featherbed at December 14, 2006 10:31 AM