By Arthur R. Butz
February 14, 2006
I have been asked "why people are so reluctant to consider" the validity of "Holocaust" revisionism. I shall try to answer that, showing the relationship to Iranian President Ahmadinejad.
The principal obstacle to the propagation of revisionism is, simply, fear. At present, the entrenched legend is protected by a system of legal and extra-legal prohibitions ("taboos"). Nobody could dispute the truth of that statement in Europe, where laws in most countries specifically proscribe the expression of revisionist ideas as criminal offenses. For me, the most painful instance of that intellectual terror is the incarceration of my chemist friend Germar Rudolf, presently being held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison near Stuttgart.
His heinous crime? As a chemistry graduate student he did a forensic analysis of the walls of the alleged gas chambers, didn't find the cyanide residues that ought to have been there and concluded they weren't gas chambers. The lack of such forensic evidence is well known in the field. For example, in the Wall Street Journal of July 7, 2004, Timothy Ryback wrote that "there is little forensic evidence proving homicidal intent" in the ruins of Auschwitz.
For Germar that was a 14 month rap in 1994, and he bolted rather than serve it. Last November he was finally deported back to Germany by the US government, despite his application for political asylum and his marriage to an American woman. For his subsequent writings the Germans are now charging Germar with a new 5-year rap, enacted into law after his original "crime."
This is not a strictly European reign of terror. The U.S. is definitely complicit. How many Americans know that our foremost execution technologist declared the alleged gassings not possible at the alleged sites? That was Fred Leuchter, who actually preceded Germar in the cyanide residue investigations. Leuchter was considered foremost in the execution field until 1990, when his views were widely publicized, and his business ruined by the refusal of authorities to work with him. I doubt he has any work in the field now. Illinois barred the politically unclean Leuchter from servicing the lethal injection machine he had designed and built. During the execution of John Wayne Gacy, there was a hitch attributed to incompetent operation of Leuchter's machine.
The terror exists in the U.S., but it is more subtle than in Europe. That brings us to President Ahmadinejad of Iran. For many years I ignored revisionism coming from Islamic countries, because I found it inept. With Ahmadinejad, I found something else; his statements were formidable in their perspicacity. My original statement on him has to be read to make the specifics clear. He understands the intellectual terror in the West. However, the best surprise came after I wrote my endorsement. British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a routine pompous suggestion to Ahmadinejad: Visit the camps and see for yourself. Ahmadinejad replied: Good idea, I'll bring a scientific team. He knows about the forensic issues too.
The most recent Iranian development has come from Hamshahri, Iran's largest newspaper. They will answer the offensive cartoons of Muhammad, defended in Europe in the name of freedom of expression, with a cartoon contest on the theme of the "Holocaust." Let's hear the Europeans preach "human rights" and "freedom" then! The cartoons will likely be criminal offenses throughout continental Europe and perhaps actionable in Britain as well. The hypocrisy is staggering.
In the present Iran, we have a formidable enemy of some Western trends that ought to be vigorously opposed by all who value "freedom" as more than a mere slogan. That, and not mere "denial," was the basis of my involvement with Ahmadinejad's statements. Beware. Present-day Iran has our number, and is giving it to others.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Abu Ghraib, More Pictures, More Provocation
I'm starting to wonder...
If this is all a ruse, the US wants out but can't seem to escape Iraq so what better way than to cause more provocation, ergo they must leave, therefore, crazy fanatics and everyone elses emotions that have run high call for reprecussions for these actions.
What do they do, take time for a military court, the accused will be suspended then punished appropriately and court marshalled. You see the US is civilised that is how they punish one who has a wonderful hand in atrocities - Look at the farce called Saddam Hussein! He must have a trial to show him the right path to democracy. Please do that on your own time for us Iraqi's we've had enough, give him the same justice that he has dealt to his own people for years.
WHY? Why is it that he sits in a luxury prison without being abused like those in the pictures and others have their own excrement smeared on their faces?
When is enough pain and torture for the Iraqi people, there's Saddam, his bunch of thugs (who won't stop unless he DIES), the americans, blind idiotic fanatics who think God Almighty has blessed them with his sword of justice, simple-minded bored individuals who have no direction and feel that they do not belong in society, who join groups that give them importance and claim they know the way to God through their own definition of Jihad.
All of that for Iraqis. Have we not paid our dues, if any, to history life, existence & humanity? Enough.
The latest Images [WARNING: Pictures may be disturbing] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/16/content_4187530.htm
If this is all a ruse, the US wants out but can't seem to escape Iraq so what better way than to cause more provocation, ergo they must leave, therefore, crazy fanatics and everyone elses emotions that have run high call for reprecussions for these actions.
What do they do, take time for a military court, the accused will be suspended then punished appropriately and court marshalled. You see the US is civilised that is how they punish one who has a wonderful hand in atrocities - Look at the farce called Saddam Hussein! He must have a trial to show him the right path to democracy. Please do that on your own time for us Iraqi's we've had enough, give him the same justice that he has dealt to his own people for years.
WHY? Why is it that he sits in a luxury prison without being abused like those in the pictures and others have their own excrement smeared on their faces?
When is enough pain and torture for the Iraqi people, there's Saddam, his bunch of thugs (who won't stop unless he DIES), the americans, blind idiotic fanatics who think God Almighty has blessed them with his sword of justice, simple-minded bored individuals who have no direction and feel that they do not belong in society, who join groups that give them importance and claim they know the way to God through their own definition of Jihad.
All of that for Iraqis. Have we not paid our dues, if any, to history life, existence & humanity? Enough.
The latest Images [WARNING: Pictures may be disturbing] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/16/content_4187530.htm
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
He said, she said...
"I could use some inspiration you know"
"hmmm what inspiration do you need"
"I need to know the taste of olives and beach sands , and how they smell
together
and why does the ocean feels so sad"
"it's salt on your lips from the sea air and a hunger for a lazy lunch in the middle of the afternoon, its like dreaming whilst asleep in the noonday sun and awakening to a glare & haze of a memory you fondly remember. and look around and realise you are nowhere there and weep and let your tears seep through the salty oceans air and rain sadness for the rest of the afternoon.
You awake and realise, this is just a figment of your fruitful imagination and cry some more till your tears soak your pillows and lasts far too long into your life."
"hmmm what inspiration do you need"
"I need to know the taste of olives and beach sands , and how they smell
together
and why does the ocean feels so sad"
"it's salt on your lips from the sea air and a hunger for a lazy lunch in the middle of the afternoon, its like dreaming whilst asleep in the noonday sun and awakening to a glare & haze of a memory you fondly remember. and look around and realise you are nowhere there and weep and let your tears seep through the salty oceans air and rain sadness for the rest of the afternoon.
You awake and realise, this is just a figment of your fruitful imagination and cry some more till your tears soak your pillows and lasts far too long into your life."
Monday, February 13, 2006
It's been a while...
It's been a while... and I haven't written, I haven't breathed, I haven't smiled and haven't thought. It's been a while that I have been barren, arid and dry, it's been a while.
I am not myself anymore, I don't seem to recognize me, am I more me than the guise that I'd seemed to be?
When I chose my name, Al Mulhama, I never realised how close to the truth it may have been... Upon searching on the net one would find many returns reflecting the Sufi faith but mostly it is the inspired self.
"The Inspired Self - Nafs al-mulhama
If the nafs al-lawwama progresses farther along the path, improving itself, becoming more tolerant and inspired, perhaps even creative, it becomes what is known as nafs al-mulhama, the inspired self. It develops a ‘live and let live’ attitude. It says, ‘why not?’ or ‘It’s crazy - let’s do it!’ Everything goes, even the wildest ideas."
I had lost this inspiration for four months now and finally, today, a trigger nudged from my slumber. I received an email from the author of a book Irving Karchmar Master of The Jinn : A Sufi Novel. which seemed to come from the mist as a wake up call. I will not go into Sufism as I know little if any, but I will say that it's spirituality heightens the soul to the nth sky, perhaps spirituality in itself does so for me.
In any event, coincidence, fate, kismet, call it what you may, has brought this to my humble doorstep and like a 10 year old faced with a ferrari, I didn't know what to do? where is the door? What is a window (this is begining to sound like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance???)
A week ago as I was feeding my mind junk food and channel surfing I fell upon a 70's version of an older Arabic movie by the name of Rab'a Al Adawiya.
I reflect and think, I may have misplaced my inspiration...
to be continued...
I am not myself anymore, I don't seem to recognize me, am I more me than the guise that I'd seemed to be?
When I chose my name, Al Mulhama, I never realised how close to the truth it may have been... Upon searching on the net one would find many returns reflecting the Sufi faith but mostly it is the inspired self.
"The Inspired Self - Nafs al-mulhama
If the nafs al-lawwama progresses farther along the path, improving itself, becoming more tolerant and inspired, perhaps even creative, it becomes what is known as nafs al-mulhama, the inspired self. It develops a ‘live and let live’ attitude. It says, ‘why not?’ or ‘It’s crazy - let’s do it!’ Everything goes, even the wildest ideas."
I had lost this inspiration for four months now and finally, today, a trigger nudged from my slumber. I received an email from the author of a book Irving Karchmar Master of The Jinn : A Sufi Novel. which seemed to come from the mist as a wake up call. I will not go into Sufism as I know little if any, but I will say that it's spirituality heightens the soul to the nth sky, perhaps spirituality in itself does so for me.
In any event, coincidence, fate, kismet, call it what you may, has brought this to my humble doorstep and like a 10 year old faced with a ferrari, I didn't know what to do? where is the door? What is a window (this is begining to sound like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance???)
A week ago as I was feeding my mind junk food and channel surfing I fell upon a 70's version of an older Arabic movie by the name of Rab'a Al Adawiya.
I reflect and think, I may have misplaced my inspiration...
to be continued...
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