I know, it's a matter a seconds before ad hominem begin flying and "go back to /pol/, etc.. But I'm assuming some of you here fancy yourselves as intellectuals. So how do you reconcile to entire "Je Suis Charlie!"nonsense in France last year, when France has laws that men can goto jail for denying the "the findings of the Nuremberg Trial." Which, I'll assume, includes the finding that Germany was responsible for the Katyn massacre, even though Russia has admitted its culpability and provided proof.
If you don't want to agree with men like Irving, Zündel, Dr.Robert Faurisson, etc.. such is your right. But once you start giving men like these 5 year jail sentences..right there, you have summed up everything wrong with the Eu and their "liberal democracies."
Dr. Ahmadinejad used to bring this up every chance he got, and it would make the media crazy. Once you take an historical event and make it an article of faith (even right down to the numbers), you are now talking religious dogma, not history. You are now "rooting out heresy." And the same Europe that will insist there is a right to draw Muhammed (although few will dare do so anymore, which must shows you that violence DOES work) will defend that men deserve jail time for "denying" the holocaust.
And that is the biggest dishonesty in all of this, because I've never met a "holocaust denier." I know the Germans didn't like Jews, and that many went to camps, and a number did not come back. Red Cross documents suggest this was due mostly to typhus, starvation, etc.. as the German infrastructure and access to food, medicine, and delousing equipment was destroyed. So, there are serious scholars who will debate the numbers and if "Gas Ovens" were used a method of killing.
Can one intellectually honest person make an argument here for how this is in keeping with Western secular, humanist values without spewing profanities or trying to have this thread deleted? I've yet to see a cogent argument. Let's see.