Monday, September 24, 2007

Ahmadinejad flunks history

So Iranian strongman Ahmadinejad is here in this country.
Speaking to the National Press Club today, he said: "...if the Holocaust is a reality, why don't we let more research be done on it?"
Hello? Anybody home? Apparently the Iranian leader has missed the literally hundreds of historical works and first-person memoirs that are now part of what we call Holocaust Studies, from Daniel Goldhagen to Elie wiesel to Primo Levi and on and on and on. The Holocaust is one of the most well-documented historical events of all time. "If" it happened? Give us a break.
I suppose it is however a good thing that this anti-Semitic moron is being allowed to speak freely. We can all see for ourselves what racist stupidity looks like.