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Holocaust revisionists and the hypocrisy of the French government

By Paul Grubach

This is an open letter to France’s Ambassador to
the US, Pierre Vimont, By Paul Grubach, January 15, 2008

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Dear Ambassador Vimont

It has been reported that revisionist historian
Robert Faurisson will face trial on charges that
he made statements at the Iran Holocaust
Conference in December 2006, which cast doubt on the d Holocaust.

As you know, the Gayssot Act of 1990 prohibits
any public doubt in France about the Holocaust.
This legal action was apparently initiated by
former President Jaques Chirac. The duplicity,
hypocritical double standards, and intellectual
impotence of the French government are appalling.
Offend Zionist Jews and the French government erupts in indignation.

Yet, if someone makes public statements that are
offensive to Muslims, this is depicted as an expression of “free speech.”

The case of the high school philosophy teacher
and author, Robert Redeker, illustrates the
hypocrisy and double standard most clearly. In a
commentary in the center-right daily Le Figaro,
he made a scathing attack upon the Prophet Mohammed and the Islamic religion.

[Press TV is obliged to omit a certain Robert
Redeker’s quote from the original text.]

The French government labeled his statements as
“expressions of free speech.” He was not put on
trial or dismissed from his job. After receiving
death threats, including one from an online
Islamic forum, Redeker went into hiding under police protection.

In a show of support, the French government came
to the defense of Mr. Redeker. Prime Minister
Dominique de Villepin called the threats
“unacceptable.” He then added this most blatant
falsehood: “We are in a democracy. Everyone has
the right to express his views freely, while
respecting others, of course.” (See The New York
Times, 30 September 2006, p. A 3)

That this is an outrageous lie is demonstrated by
the plight of Dr. Faurisson. In 1991 he was
removed from his university chair on the basis of
his Holocaust revisionist views under the Gayssot
Act. Many years later he was given a three-month
suspended jail term for Holocaust revisionist
remarks he made on Iranian television in October 2006.

The double standard here is blatantly obvious.
The French government defends a man who insults
the Islamic religion, despite the fact that his
statements are offensive to millions of Muslims.
Indeed, not only did they defend his right to
freedom of speech in a well publicized statement,
but they offered him police protection as well.

Yet, this same French government allows a French
professor to be removed from his university
chair, orders criminal probes into his comments,
and gives him a suspended jail sentence because
of his Holocaust revisionist beliefs. This
clearly falsifies Prime Minister Dominque de
Villepin’s hypocritical claim that France is a
democracy “where everyone has the right to
express his views freely, while respecting
others.” One has the right to insult and attack
the Islamic religion and deny the existence of
God, but Holocaust revisionists are not allowed
to freely express their viewpoints. The free
speech rights of revisionists like Dr. Faurisson are routinely violated.

Furthermore, it appears as though the policy of
the French government to prosecute Holocaust
revisionists is simply a reflection of the wishes
of influential French Jews. It was reported in
the February 4, 2006 issue of The International
Jerusalem Post (p.10) that filmmaker Claude
Lanzmann wants Holocaust revisionism to be
outlawed. In his own words: “How do you fight
against Arab denial of the Holocaust? Certainly
not like in Western countries. But I don’t know,
I’m not Sephardic…It has to be outlawed, like in France, that’s all.”

If you do prosecute Dr. Faurisson, this will not
only demonstrate the French government’s
hypocrisy, but it will also help to show that the
Holocaust legend really is a weak and flimsy
ideology that cannot be defended with reason and
science. In a word, the Holocaust is a false
doctrine that needs oppressive laws and prison
sentences to protect it from rational criticism.

Sincerely, Paul Grubach

Holocaust revisionist and researcher Paul Grubach
holds an Associate Arts degree in liberal arts,
and a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, with
a concentration in chemistry and minor in
history, from John Carroll University (Ohio).

Press TV has received a copy of this letter

The full story in
<http://worldpressnetwork.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133>http://worldpressnetwork.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133

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