It had a circulation of 10,000 from among that distressingly large tiny minority of extremists. "Germany shuts down Islamist newspaper," from DPA, with thanks to Jeff Lastname:
BERLIN - Germany closed down on Friday a Turkish-language Islamist daily newspaper that has denied the Holocaust.Interior Minister Otto Schily put a banning order on the Yeni Akit publishing house, which brings out the European edition of Anadoluda Vakit. The title means "the times in Anatolia". Prosecutors have been collecting evidence against the newspaper for months.
The Interior Ministry in Berlin said the closure was ordered because Vakit had incited to ethnic hate. The newspaper had attacked Israel, Jews in general and the fundamentals of western society....
Despite warnings, the newspaper recently ran a letter headed "Hitler was right". In December last year, a member of parliament held up an issue that claimed "There Was No Holocaust" and appealed to the government to ban the paper.
In 1969 I drove through Turkey 4 times.
(I delivered Mercedes Benz luxury vehicles to buyers in Teheran)
Generally admired by the Turks who generously encouraged me to eat bulls-balls (sic) - in order to keep my red haired/green eyed girlfriend happy, - we drank lots of tiny glasses of sweet strong tea with them.
With German licence plates I was presumed to be German. Usually conversations went like this: "Ahh, German, German good, Hitler good...."
"Why?"
"Hitler good, Hitler killed the Jews..."
Imagine being Jewish!
Looks like nothing much has changed...
What is astounding is the sheer ignorance of the German mind and laws this reveals. Every donkey in creation knows that Holocaust denial is the ultimate no-no in Germany. It is almost the only country in which it is illegal without ifs or buts. How can people live in one country for decades, indeed be born in it, and be so wildly ignorant of the most obvious facts about it?
Yes,and the Crusades were a hoax by Muslims dressed up as Christians to slaughter Muslim martyr's that died for the Islamic cause to justify global Jihad to wipe the Earth clear of non-Muslims.
Oh,but the claim of Muhammed coming back to life from the grave and flying a wingged horse up to the heavens is a fact according to rumors from
1400 years ago when questioning the Prophet Muhammed got you killed.
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