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Originally Posted by blankall
Considering that the muslim faith was written many centuries before the holocaust happened, I do not see how it could be against anyone's faith to accept the holocaust? More like it is against political extremists that are hijacking the faith for their own agenda. The fact that people are actually considerign pandering to that is pretty awful.
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It really only offends Muslims because, the rest of the world, when taken in context of the Holocuast, feels sympathy for Jews and thus the state of Isreal (I do understand that that this tide is turning presently, but historically this has some truth). Muslims are against the Isreali state because it was 'stolen' from them after WWII, largely directly due to the holocaust. This is where holocaust denial comes in. It's a whole lot easier for followers of Islam to continue to oppose Isreal if they believe that the Holocaust is some sort of Jewish conspiracy to take over the world as opposed to historical fact. As the grandchild of two grandparents who witnessed the Holocaust first hand, this is complete garbage and propaganda and it's absolutely repugnant that anyone would be motivated to deny this part of the world's history for any reason.
Back in the 1990s if white people in North America were seen as holocaust deniers they were tarred and feathered as racists, I don't see why muslim holocaust deniers aren't treated the same way in the 21st Century. Instead we're seeing in England that their backward beliefs are actually catered to. This is unacceptable.