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...Islamic leaders have a great deal of freedom. They are free to destroy Buddhist shrines in Afghanistan without a word of protest from Muslim nations. They are free to deny non-Muslims the opportunity to worship freely, as in Saudi Arabia. They are free to deny the Holocaust and vilify the Jewish religion. Yet publish a few cartoons, and the Muslim world is aflame. Perhaps Islamic leaders will now acknowledge that their actions over many years have been deeply offensive to other religions and take steps toward a more balanced and sensitive approach. Michael Renan Cape Town...
JAILED. DAVID IRVING, 67, right-wing British historian; after pleading guilty to denying the Holocaust; by a judge in Vienna. Irving, who was sentenced to three years in prison, was arrested in November on charges relating to speeches he gave in 1989 in which he contended, among other things, that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Convicted under an Austrian law that makes it a crime to deny or "grossly play down" the Nazi genocide, Irving said he had become a "victim of political theater...
...SENTENCED. DAVID IRVING, 67, to three years in jail for denying the Holocaust; in Vienna, Austria. The controversial British historian was arrested last November on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, in which he called the gas chambers of Auschwitz a "fairytale" and claimed that Adolf Hitler had protected Europe's Jews. Irving, who was seized by Austrian police on his way to address a far-right student fraternity in Vienna, told the court that he had since changed his views and felt sorrow "for all the innocent people who died during the Second World...
...Speaking for the Silent In 1985 Elie Wiesel [INTERVIEW, Feb. 6] received the Congressional Gold Medal from Ronald Reagan "in recognition of his ... contributions to world literature and human rights." In describing Wiesel's achievements, TIME wrote of his witnessing the Holocaust and his memoir Night, currently a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Here is an excerpt from that article [March...
...innocent, the martyrdom of faith itself as a child watches the hanging of another child: 'Where is God? Where is he? ... And I heard a voice within me answer: Where is he? Here he is?he is hanging here on this gallows.' Some 20 American publishers rejected Night. 'The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,' the author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank was about as far as anyone wanted to venture into the dark.' Night, finally published in the U.S. in 1960, drew them far deeper, into an abyss that was appalling...