There are some terms that people in Islamic and Western countries should never say to each other, because they confuse and inflame more than they clarify. The most obvious ones would be “jihad”, “crusade” and “great satan”. All of them are used in somewhat innocuous ways by the people who utter them, but mean something completely different – and much more inflammatory – to foreign ears.
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mentioned the "myth of the holocaust" He knew what he meant by the phrase, and I know what he meant, but if he thinks that most people in the West are going to hear it and respond with anything more profound than “Holocaust deniers!” then they are deeply ignorant.
When he “denies” the “myth” of the Holocaust, he is not denying theHolocaust, he's not even duscussing it.
It's all about finding a justification to bring about regime change in Iran.
Or why else did he get misinterpreded?
2007-10-28
20:51:16
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