DOUG SAUNDERS
Globe and Mail 13 Dec 06 LONDON - Gathered in a Tehran auditorium yesterday were some of the world's most notorious figures: Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, leaders of the Ku Klux Klan. And among them, somewhat incongruously, was a soft-spoken political science professor from Nova Scotia.
The presence of Shiraz Dossa of St. Francis Xavier University at a Holocaust conference organized by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised eyebrows in Canada. Mr. Ahmadinejad has called for an end to Israel's existence, and the conference is widely seen as a provocative exercise in anti-Semitism. |
The Independent Online
By Colin Brown and Anne Penketh 13 December 2006 Iran attracted international condemnation yesterday for hosting a conference of Holocaust deniers which was described by Tony Blair as "shocking beyond belief".
As the two-day conference in Tehran wound up by forming a "fact-finding" committee into the extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis, Mr Blair accused Iran of posing a "major strategic threat" to the Middle East. Speaking at his monthly press conference, he said he had been so taken aback by the reports the Iran president had invited a leader of the Ku Klux Klan to the conference that he asked a No 10 aide to check on it, twice. "To go and invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust ... what further evidence do you need that this regime is extreme?" Comment: All the ingredients are there. We have Ahmadinejad already firmly established as the evil demon a la Saddam Hussein and who has the audacity to explore the Holocaust to boot! What's more, he "revels" in such evil. And Tony Bliar - ever the one to climb aboard the propaganda train to fulfill his role as saviour - is busily finding out whether the Klu-Klux-Klan is invited to the demonic party! Oh the joy of it! It's a bumper package of spin that will send Tony and the Neo-Cons fundies into fits of Messianic rapture.
Of course, Ahmadinejad may be not helping matters, he may be playing his part for a variety of reasons. The real issue is why objective reporting on the real questions behind such political reporting remains absent. Why is the Iranian leader so miffed with Zionists and in what way has their influence in the past and present contributed to the chaos we now see before us? Here's a thing... Behind the proven lies of Bush, Bliar and the biased media and their "Clash of Civilisations" doctrine could there actually be some truth between the simplistic scenarios we are constantly fed? We may then find that we are redefining our ideas as to who and what is evil. Try here for starters. |
By Fahd Ben Suleiman Al Shuqairan
Translated By Nicolas Dagher Al-Yaum, Saudi Arabia December 6, 2006 |
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