The infamous Holocaust denial conference took place in Tehran on December 11-12. Afterwards even Arab columnists condemned the conference's organizers and participants, calling them hate-mongers and "distorters of historical fact." These columnists argued that the conference was not an academic event but an opportunity to spread hateful ideas. The Iranian claim that Westerners needed this opportunity to express themselves was dismissed - in Iran there is no freedom of speech.
Even in Iran itself, the Baztab website, published a highly critical view of the event.
MEMRI has translated these items that I recommend to see.
Reading the translations, it is striking to see how morally clear some of these writers are and comparing their freedom of expression with that of European writers, how brave too. Suddenly it seems that not enough condemnation was expressed by European intellectuals and influential writers at the time of the event.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 8:34 AM
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