oh please
Denied the Holocaust? Are you that naive? He questioned the figures of the Holocaust (the 6 million # is highly disputed). He also questioned why out of the 60 million people or so who were killed during WW2, how come we only focus on the Jewish casualties when there were millions of people of other faiths who lost their lives as well?
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Totally agree.. In America, damn near everyone doesn't like gay people. As soon as some foreign leader says something similar, everyone is up in arms. Give me a break.[/color]
You see though, Iran is not the only country that punishes homosexuals. The U.S. government has EXCELLENT relations with other countries in the Middle East that combine religion with politics and persecute gays. However, since these governments are not critical of U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. turns a blind eye to their human rights violations. Iran is extremely critical of U.S. foreign policy and so the U.S. government and media go all-out to vilify Ahmadinajed. "He hates gays...he hates Jews...he hates Israel...he violates human rights". The man's views are no different from every single leader in the Middle-East. The only difference is he's not afraid to speak out against the U.S. government where as the other leaders are cowards and shut their mouths in order to get U.S. government support that allows them to maintain their strangle hold of undemocratic power within their countries.
The Japanese gov't denies Nanking...
He never said that. He actually acknowledges the genocide. What he sees is the problem is that he thinks the Holocaust was used as a pretext or measure by Zionists to create Israel and that the Palestinians had to pay the price for it.
The "wipe Israel off the map" quote was actually a misquote by the Iranian translation services. Upon analyzing his speech, many American and Iranian academics living abroad pointed out that Ahmedinajed was misquoted.
