By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Iranian President Mahmoud ahmadinejad, hosting Holocaust deniers from around the world in a "conference" debating whether the World War II genocide of Jews took place, can hardly depend on getting facts from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Duke thinks Canada is run by a president.
"The President of Canada said it very well. He said that Bush is like a puppet. He knows what he has to say to get the support of the media," Duke told an interviewer with the Washington-based www.memri.org on a November 2005 radio show.
Since the Canadian government has outlawed his books, you would think that Duke would know that Canada elects a prime minister and not a president.
But the facts never got in David Duke's way.
according to him, Mossad was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Indeed, the american-born Duke is much more concerned with the "hatred" and "terrorism" generated by america in Iraq than he is about the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.
In august 2005 he published an article stating his support for Cindy Sheehan saying "the Iraq war and her son's death did not defend americans for hatred or terrorism."
Duke is one of 67 participants from 30 countries representing the rogue's gallery of Holocaust deniers and revisionists at ahmadinejad's media-swarmed two-day conference that wraps up today.
"The New York Times reported that Duke, a white supremacist, was expected to claim that Germany built no gas chambers or extermination camps during World War II." (CBS News).
"Depicting Jews as the overwhelming victims of the Holocaust gave the moral high ground to the allies as victors of the war and allowed Jews to establish a state on the occupied land of Palestine," Duke said, according to the summary of the paper he will deliver, the Times reported."
But Duke announced to BBC cameras in Tehran that he is not a Holocaust denier.
"I'm a Holocaust questioner," he told the BBC. "But I'm here to defend freedom of speech."
Before even speaking to the Holocaust conference, Duke had already posted broad criticism of how the media would quote him, on his Internet homepage.
Others being entertained by ahmadinejad include a number of Western Holocaust skeptics who have been prosecuted in Europe for publishing their theories casting doubt on whether 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis or whether gas chambers were ever used.
"The number of victims at the auschwitz concentration camp could be about 2,007," australian Frederick Toben told the conference, according to a Farsi translation of his comments. "The railroad to the camp did not have enough capacity to transfer large numbers of Jews."
It would seem that ahmadinejad, who has described the Holocaust as a "myth" and called for Israel to be wiped off the map, likes to surround himself with the crme de la crme of Jew haters. Earlier this year, his government backed an exhibition of anti-Israel cartoons in a show of defiance after Danish cartoons caricaturing Islam's prophet Muhammad were published in Europe, raising an outcry among Muslims.
Duke has singled out the Canada government as an enemy.
"The government now seizes and burns My awakening and Jewish Supremacism, he laments on his website. "In fact, in addition to seizing and destroying my books, will send a bill for their destruction to the Canadian book companies who dare to object to their books being burned.
"In use of language that goes well beyond Orwellian newspeak, the government classifies my books as quote hate propaganda. But their definition of hate propaganda is so nebulous that most books in Canada could easily be banned under this law."
Meanwhile if Duke is not, as he informed BBC cameras, a Holocaust denier, he has expressed his support for Ernst Zundel, a prominent Holocaust revisionist, and has made a number of statements in support of Zundel and his Holocaust denial campaign.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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