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Als Deutscher schon erstaunlich, was in irischen Zeitungen (noch) abgedruckt werden kann:
Let me say from the outset; I'm with Bishop Richard Williamson on this.
There was no holocaust, (or Holocaust, as my computer software insists) and six million Jews were not murdered by the Third Reich.
These two statements of mine are irrefutable truths, yet their utterance could get me thrown in the slammer in half the countries of the EU.I admit that there was murder and "genocide" but almost in the same breath, insist that there was no holocaust? How is this possible?
Well, if you turn historical events into current political dogmas, you are thereby creating a sort of secular, godless religion, which becomes mandatory for all who wish to participate in public life.
It is an offence in German law to say that six million Jews did not die in the holocaust. Very well then. I am a criminal in Germany.
Moreover, there certainly was no holocaust. For if the word is to have any literal validity at all, it must be related to its actual meaning, which comes from the Greek words holos, 'whole', and caust, 'fire'.
Most Jewish victims of the Third Reich were not burnt in the ovens in Auschwitz. They were shot by the hundreds of thousands in the Lebensraum of the east, or were worked or starved to death in a hundred other camps, across the Reich.I'm a holocaust denier; but I also believe that the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jewish people, as far as their evil hands could reach.
And because the Nazis lost, the free-speech party won. So, this means that the bishop can believe, and even publicly state, if he wants, that Auschwitz was an ice-cream parlour and the SS was a dance troupe.
That is the nature of free speech. Any one of us should be able to declare any old counter-factual and even offensive nonsense, without being sent to jail, provided we preach hatred for no one. It's a free and equal world.Or is it?
Across Europe, there are countless Islamic madrasahs, in which imams regularly preach hatred for Jews, and where the holocaust is routinely denied.
Which member-state of the EU will pursue such conveyors of hate, or seek the extradition of an imam who says that the holocaust was a Zionist hoax? None of them. We know this.
For the EU has tolerated the creation of an informal historiographical apartheid. So, on the one hand, a single, eccentric (and possibly deranged) Christian bishop may be hounded for his demented historical beliefs: but on the other, there is a deafening silence over the widespread and virulent distortion of the 'holocaust' by Islamic preachers.
This disparity is now effectively an EU policy.
You can reasonably call such double-standards many things, but the words 'rational', 'wise' or 'consistent' are not among them.
'Suicidal' and 'insane', however, certainly are.