Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shows ignorance of history and his hatred of Jews

Reuters/Washington Post:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said that Germans should no longer allow themselves to be held prisoner by a sense of guilt over the Holocaust and reiterated doubts that the Holocaust ever happened.

In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Ahmadinejad said he doubted that Germans were allowed to write "the truth" about the Holocaust and that he was still considering traveling to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament.

"I believe the German people are prisoners of the Holocaust. More than 60 million were killed in World War II. . . . The question is: Why is it that only Jews are at the center of attention?" he said in the interview published Sunday.

In the rare interview with a Western news organization, Ahmadinejad said that if the Holocaust really happened then Jews should be moved from Israel back to Europe.

"We say if the Holocaust happened, then the Europeans must accept the consequences and the price should not be paid by Palestine. If it did not happen, then the Jews must return to where they came from."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians have said his previous remarks questioning the Holocaust were "unacceptable." Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany punishable with a prison term of up to five years.

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Perhaps the Germans should arrest him when he shows up for the World Cup. They could them make him tour the concentration camps and see the holocaust exhibits. Of course that would still not be a cure for his ethnic hatred of the Jews, but it might cure his ignorance of history. His continuing ignorance suggest the Iranian education system is pretty low functioning.

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