Garaudy converted to Islam in 1982, and has been engaging in the same kind of historical revisionism and appropriation of history that other Muslims use so energetically to try to discredit Israel and turn world opinion against Jews in general. All this is in a larger sense on a continuum with the theological and historical deligitimization that is an aspect and consequence of dhimmitude. "French Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy on Iranian TV: Gas Chambers Were Not Used to Kill Jews," from MEMRITV, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Following are excerpts from an interview with French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, which was broadcast on Iranian TV Channel 1 on December 13, 2005....[...]
The only film presented to the judges in the Nuremberg trials showed the Dachau gas chamber. The construction of the Dachau gas chamber was never completed, and it was never used. Since this gas chamber was never completed, yet the film presented at Nuremberg portrayed it as if it were completed, this film must have been a means of deception by American agencies stationed at Dachau.
This film is always shown to tourists, since the eye-witness testimony has already been accepted as fact, and the existence of gas chambers during the Third Reich is considered an indisputable fact. One must therefore conclude that no Jews or other prisoners were killed by poisonous gas - not in Dachau, Bergen, or Buchenwald.
Roger Garaudy started life as a Stalinist. He ended as a devout Muslim. No contradiction there. The line of continuity is that of the Seeker of Absolutes. Absolute Certainties, with Something to Follow Blindly. Could be Hitler, could be Stalin, could be the Total Regulation that Islam, and only Islam among those belief-systems called religions. And what distinguishes a "religion" from a "cult"? A "cult" includes constant brainwashing, a cult regulates everything, in a cult new members are inveigled into it without knkowing very much about it (it's better that way), in a cult the members are not permitted to leave, and are threatened in all sorts of ways if they attempt to do so. Is Islam more like a "religion" or like a "cult"? What do you think?
Whatever it is, it is right up Roger Garaudy's blind alley.
Hugh,
Garaudy talks right out of his blind alley.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the preface to his holocaust-denying book written by none other than Noam Chomski?
Elephant,
I think you are thinking of Robert Faurisson.
Give them 100 years and quite a few hot baths and the Holocaust will never have happened. They are very good at this. They have had 1450 yrs of practice.
Islamic disinformation has distorted history for this amount of time.
I do not think that scholars give enough recognition to this very obvious point
What is the point of truth unless it has Islamic value? It has no inherent value in itself as the Qur'an is all the truth we need.
Remember we have to be grateful to Islam as it only destroyed 99% of the books and scrolls that it discovered in the libraries and the palaces of conquered Christian cities.
If all of the ancients had used only paper there would be almost no ancient history once the Muslims hit an area.
It is a very well tried out and carefully calculated technique of confusing and distorting truth via the censorship of history thru the elimination of sources. All in the name of Islam
I've spent a fair amount of time debating holocaust "revisors". In general, they tend to greatly admire western civilization and are horrified by the prospect of its demise. What trips them up is their dogged insistence that "the Jews" are somehow behind all this. So, I have spent many frustrating hours trying to "bring them around" - with sadly limited success.
It's a frustrating process, I can assure you. Fortunately, most of them have been raised in a culture that values rational discourse, so progress is possible. If Holocaust "revisionism" catches on in the Muslim world - which, correct me if I'm wrong, appears to lack a remotely comparable appreciation of rational discourse - the way "The Protocals" have, I think there's little hope of ever correcting it.
Islam is the ONLY example of a successful dictatorship continued over the centuries.
All dictatorships founder on the rock of succession. Some do so immediately. Some do so a generation or so later. But always there is a loss of doctrinal purity as each successor puts his own imprint upon the rule.
Muhammad has found the only way to maintain doctrinal purity post mortem by using religion to ensure this. he still has Islam by the ^^%$# 1450 yrs later.
Had Hitler succeeded Nazism would have evolved into a religion. This was already underway in 1944.
It is MHO that Islam is a repressive political system hiding behing the facade of a religion and so intermixed that it is impossible to separate them.
Of course I have no evidence for Muhammad doing this deliberately other than my own suspicions and the Qur'anic inconsistencies so atypical of a supreme being who knows his own will, but very typical of a man manipulating people in the name of a false god..
I went to watch 'Belzec' in Paris last weekend. The movie is a documentary which tells of how 600,000 jews were killed in a 300 square metre patch of Poland in a few months.
This movie was only released on the 25th of November and yet is being shown in only one Paris theatre, with no poster outside advertising the film. You have to go in and ask the staff, who will discretely point you towards the Salle de Seance Deux.
And here is the link to the above mentioned movie
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=59882.html
One must therefore conclude that no mohammedans or other fellow travellers were affected by recorded history - not in Saudi Arabia, Iran,or Jordan.
Sebastien...in a couple of years(not decades) it wont be possible to screen it anywhere in France.
Within 100 years you wont be able to see it anywhere in Europe as even if there was a copy, you wouldn't wish to see it as it would contain nothing but christian lies and as a good muslim you would heed the tug on the ring in your nose and not see it.:))
Zathras...I had no idea good muslims wore nose rings. I believed this was limited to pigs and goth chicks. :)
The movie about Belzec ought to have been deliberately attended by high officials of the French government. All of them ought to have turned out en masse for the film, all of them ought to have insisted -- perhaps Sarkozy can insist -- that it be shown all over France.
That would mean something. Visiting Israel and making that pro forma visit to Yad Vashem, with a pro forma solemn look and pro forma pledge of Never-Again and a pro forma ready tear or two - that's easy. That means nothing.
Do something for god's sake. It should be clear that French Jews need some sign, the tiniest sign, of solidarity. Where the hell is it?
Really disgusting to see such a dead man babbling.
Hugh, someday you should post an article about the list of new EUrabian janissaries: Monsieur Garaudy, Mister Galloway --did he convert to Islam?-- and the likes.
Day by day, the bag of EUro-Muslim puppets must be inflating.
Deeply disgusting...
What about notorious U.K convert David Myat-once
Nazi supremo now posting as Abdul Aziz...Yes Hugh is right, these guys 'n'gals must follow some Totalitarian Ideology be it Communism,Nazism or Wham Bam Islam. Scary eh!
Forgot to mention that Muslim Posters are finding
out about Gorgeous George's past as a dedicated Commie.Several angry comments on Islam Channel about this Kafir who 'supported Soviet invasion of Afghanistan' - Galloway's statement "Fall of Communism the greatest catastrophe of my life" quoted against him. Even Sister Yvonne Ridley now
shouting her mouth off on 'Agenda' is copping flak from fellow bros & sisters. Supporters of Caliphate & Sharia[which are many] have been infuriated at the way she has treated them in Talkbacks, naive Ridley still insisting on Democracy.SHE IS A KAFIR NOT A TRUE BELIEVER!
What a Hoot!! Only needs someone to spread a rumour on the Internet that Ridley & Galloway are
spies in the pay of British Intelligience [everyone knows they love money] for them to be
lynched/beheaded by ROP. Rather fancy the pair of
them will find 'flirting with Islam' a deadly game.
Another article related to this topic:
Holocaust denial is 'scientific debate', Iran says
So what's new?
The Ottoman Turks didn't harm any Armenians either...
http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/03/daily-03-09-2001.shtml
Morgane, you've made my day. Perhaps those two 'walking latrines' (as another poster aptly put it) will be done in by the savages they seek so desperately to appease.
Muslims have a lot of practice with holocaust denial. They've been insisting that there was no genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians for nearly a century. They claim that Muslims liberated India instead of exterminating millions of Hindus and Buddhists. Then there are the Zoroastrians who never really existed either.
When Hitler was asked how he expected to get away with the genocide of the Jews, he responded "Who today remembers the Armenians?"
On the other hand, these same Islamic apologist seem to glory in the total extermination of the Jewish tribes of Arabia under their psychotic Prophet.
Garaudy was once the chief ideologist of the French Communist Party, not some simple rank and file member. It is indeed curious and requires much consideration and study, Why so many converts to Islam and apologists for it come out of the Communist ranks. There's Garaudy, Carlos the Jackal, Galloway, livingston, etc. What is going here? This is a bizarre phenomenon since one might think that "scientific materialism," the supposed philosophical foundation of commies, would be as much opposed to Islam as to other religions. I can't explain it "while standing on one foot" as we say in Hebrew, but it goes back at least to the early days of Bolshevik rule in Russia. See link below:
http://ziontruth.blogspot.com/2005/10/bolsheviks-for-jihad-genocide-stalins.html
Eliyahu,
That's not suprising. Hitler said that the best nazis were former Marxists and ordered that communists be inducted as nazis without question. The East German Stasi used the same recruitment for "former" Nazis.
Communism, Nazism, and Islam are all manifestations of the same totalitarian psychosis. Look into the minds of any of them and you'll find the same murderous concepts.
And who exactly does this guy think was in those concentration camps during WW2? The Addams family on vacation???