{"id":6098,"date":"2006-03-05T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T06:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2006-03-05T23:53:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T06:53:59","slug":"what-you-mean-those-please-those-were-for-baking-soft-pretzels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=6098","title":{"rendered":"What, you mean those?  Please.  Those were for baking soft pretzels."},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Allah and Alarming News<\/a>, this potential bombshell (though its best to retain a healthy skepticism at this point). From Iran Focus-News<\/a>, “Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust”:\n<\/p>\n

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Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly told Iranian businessmen in Germany that he agreed with statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmyth\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami<\/i> reported on Monday.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe government-owned daily wrote that at a dinner gala with Iranian hoteliers and entrepreneurs, Kohl said that he \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cheartily agreed\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d with Ahmadinejad\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s remarks about the Holocaust.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWhat Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust was in our bosoms\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d, the former German chancellor was quoted as saying. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cFor years we wanted to say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d.\n<\/p>\n

\nAhmadinejad caused an international furore last year when he publicly declared that the Holocaust was a \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cmyth\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d and threatened that Israel must be \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cwiped off the map\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d.\n<\/p>\n

\nHis comments were supported by senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe country\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s state-run media have systematically defended the position of the Iranian president and given extensive coverage to historians and \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cexperts\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d who deny the Holocaust took place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nPersonally, that quote sounds to me a bit too much like an Iranian propagandist trying to mimic a western leader, so take it with a grain of salt.\n<\/p>\n

\nStill, western Europe’s slow steady creep toward a renewed anti-semitism—posing as a critique of Zionism—sadly makes such a statement at least plausible<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is unlikely, though, that a seasoned statesman like Kohl would make such a public gaffe.  But then again, who’d have thought a former VP (and likely 2008 US presidential candidate) would stand before a Wahabbist audience and essentially accuse his own country of the mistreatment of Muslims in a war that the administration has taken great pains not to frame as a clash of civilizations.\n<\/p>\n

\nI mean, honestly?  I just don’t know anymore.  My incredulism meter, once very reliable, has been damaged beyond repair by the partisan rhetoric of the last few years.\n<\/p>\n

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\nAce has additional commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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