Iran Did A Holocaust Review, But Seriously, Why Are We Not Allowed To Debate This Issue In The West?

Question

In many western countries, if you express doubts about the Holocaust, you are not made to look like an idiot, you are arrested and put in jail. This is what I mean. We are not allowed to hear the arguments of people who dont buy it wholesale, if you get me.

Germany, France, Austria, Australia(Asia), Holland, Belgium, Sweden etc etc

And the Holocaust is not a holy thing but an evil thing so it should not be treated like a holy ghost issue that resulted in people being put in prison if they say that less than x amount or such things, should it?

Answer 1

What ever every one else on here is saying ,i agree with you .i don`t think the point is if the holocaust happened but why it`s only accepted that jewish people suffered .My grandmothers family where Roma gypsies and by the time the Nazi`s had finished with them they were near enough wiped of the face of the earth but theres no recognition for their suffering let alone sympathy in fact their human rights are still abused in eastern europe And i think in particular Isreal plays on what happened to justify the atrocoties they have commited .

Answer 2

Correction: Iran did NOT do a "Holocaust Review" (as your question says). It put on a propaganda show to support their view that the Holocaust was merely invented by the West. It was not a debate--the other side was not allowed in; it was not a review or discussion or conversation. Iran steps on very slippery ground when it tries to prove a negative.
What are Iran's motives in trying to discredit the Holocaust? Easy--if they can say the Holocaust never happened, then they believe this will undermine Israel, which received many survivors of the Holocaust. It will take away Israel's legitimacy to exist, Iran thinks. But what is the legitimacy of Iran's dictatorship that goes back to the Ayatollah Khomeini???

Answer 3

We are free to discuss it in America. People have been having forums, writing books, making statments denying the Holocaust for a very long time. It just hasn't been publicized. A question I would have to ask is, why is it OK for Iran to have a forum for Holocaust deniers, but if the US were to have a forum denying, Mohammand, there would probably be a whole lot of trouble.

Answer 4

What is their to debate? Everyone in the west knows for a fact that the Holocaust happened. US troops liberated concentration camps in Europe and there's documented proof. The US has Nazi documents of everything having to do with the Holocaust. Their are thousands of Holocaust survivors living in the US. There is nothing to debate other than whether it was 6 or 8 or more that died.

Answer 5

Because the Jews control the media and are running the US? Is that true? Maybe. It's seen as insensitve, rude, rather like making Caricatures about Mohammed is seen by Muslims.

What really needs to be debated is Israel's behaviour and the holocaust is often used as an excuse for the Israelis to kill whoever they like (usually the palestinians).

Plus of course there have been lots of holocausts in the World (staling, pol pot and look what's going on in Darfur right now) but none of them get the press, recognition and films made about them that the Jewish one does. The word holocaust itself is synonymous with what the Nazis did(not the Germans we're not allowed to say that either. are we? You see how our minds are being controlled?).

Answer 6

The truth of the holocaust is undeniable. What I don't like to see is the drum beat of anti-semitism that is being heard again throughout Europistan, and the U.S. What is your source saying that you are not allowed to debate this issue in the west? Maybe just the voices in your head telling you this.

Answer 7

I believe that we are mostly tolerant
I believe that any view has a right to be considered, and that we have, and continue to have, a dialogue about what happened under the Hitler regime.
I believe that all sorts of diverse opinions have been, and continue to be heard.
I believe that that is one of our glories. That diverse opinions can still be heard.
I believe that that is important.
I believe that there were diverse peoples who were targeted and who suffered from attempts to totally eliminate them under the Hitler regime.
I believe that the Jews were amongst those people.
I believe that the Jewish people, who suffered greatly, gained a disproportionate level of empathy following the end of the war, and that minorities were, comparatively, ignored.
I believe that the Jewish people were given, by a guilty winning alliance, an opportunity to create a wonderful state in which they above all, because of their own suffering, would be able to assimilate, learn from, teach and tolerate people, particularly, of those lands they had been given by our all conquering heroes..
I believe I have been severely let down.

Answer 8

Theres FAR too much evidence to show the holocaust did happen. Its like debating if the world is flat. Theres just no support for the holocaust denial wing of the argument

Answer 9

What do you mean "not allowed"? You are allowed to debate and review whatever you would like...But if you hold the stance that the Holocaust did not happen, then you will wind up looking like an idiot.

Answer 10

You are allowed to debate anything here but the truth is it's a done deal. Anyone that says the holocaust never happened is misinformed or has ulterior motives. Ahmadinejad is all of the above...