Denying the Holocaust...

http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2007/04/holocaust-denial-iranian-style/

The blog enrty that I had read is about why certain groups have denied that the Holocaust ever happened. In the west, the Holocaust itseslf isnt so much denied as the fundamental history. Like the gas chambers and the methods as to which the Jews were killed. However, in Germany where the Holocaust is denied is mostly coming from those who want to restore Germany's good name, as well as rehabilitate Fascism. In the Muslin world though, most of the denying is because the Islamic people are so infuriated that the Jews are being victimized by what has happened. The blog says that there are three main reasons why the Islamic people deny the Holocaust is because the want to make Europe look bad because they think Europe looks at itself as the tolerant and welcoming to outsiders. The second reason is because they want to demoralize the existence of Israel because they see themselves as the "legacy of the Nazis' victims" and the solution if another Holocaust were to happen. The last reason the blogger said is because they want to attack the United States because we use th Holocaust as a moral teaching against antisemitism.

The blogger said that if the United States along with the west and central Europe had not taken this stance on the Holocaust, there would be no point in denying it.

Then the issue of the Iranian President denying the Holocaust. The blog talks about the division that it has caused between the people and how there better not be a surge of people the agree with him and make him out to be some kind of martyr.