If my father had been murdered and someone came along and told me that he had died peacefully in his sleep, and that person claimed I was a liar, although I had witnessed my father's murder, I would get a tad upset, too.
If someone told you that the deaths and mayhem during Partition had never happened, what would you say? Would you accept it as just another opinion? -Frank --- Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Somehow, I'm not very comfortable about this. To me, > freedom of speech > is meaningless unless it protects the right to say > things that are > objectionable. > > As has been attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of > what you say, but > I will defend to the death your right to say it." > > -- b > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4446646.stm > > Austria holds 'Holocaust denier' > David Irving > Irving maintains his conclusions come from serious > research > British revisionist historian David Irving is being > held in Austria > under laws against denying the Holocaust. > > An interior ministry spokesman said police in the > province of Styria > acted on a warrant issued in 1989 to arrest him last > Friday. > > Mr Irving was on his way to give a lecture in the > capital, Vienna. > > In his books, Mr Irving has argued that the scale of > the extermination > of the Jews by the Nazis in World War II has been > exaggerated. > > He also claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler knew > nothing of the Holocaust. > > He told a libel hearing in London in 2000 that there > had been no gas > chambers at the Auschwitz camp. > > He lost the case and the judge branded him "an > active Holocaust denier". > > 'Anti-Semitic' > > A spokesman for the Austrian interior ministry, > Rudolf Gollia, told > the BBC that Mr Irving was first taken to the town > of Graz, but was > now in custody in Vienna. > > Anti-Nazi groups in the UK congratulated the > Austrian government. > > The chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, > Lord Greville Janner, > said he hoped the move would "lead to a successful > prosecution". > > The head of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said > denial was not a > matter of opinion. > > "Austrian law demands incisive action to protect its > citizens from a > repeat of the past," he added. > > Mr Irving was previously arrested in Austria in > 1984. > > This time, the historian was stopped near the town > of Hartberg while > reportedly on his way to address a students' club in > Vienna. > > Mr Irving came into the spotlight in 2000 when he > sued US academic > Deborah Lipstadt for describing him as a "Holocaust > denier" in her > 1994 work Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault > on Truth and > Memory. > > Giving his verdict, the British judge said Mr Irving > was "an active > Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist > and that he > associates with right-wing extremists who promote > neo-Nazism". > > ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com
