[Dean's World] Dean: "We should speak out if even a single Jew is killed."

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Posted by Dean:
"We should speak out if even a single Jew is killed."
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1166583273.shtml


   Quoted:

     TEHRAN - Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami has
     described the Holocaust as a "historical reality" - a direct attack
     on his controversial and revisionist successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

     "We should speak out if even a single Jew is killed. Don't forget
     that one of the crimes of Hitler, Nazism and German national
     socialism was the massacre of innocent people, among them many
     Jews," the cleric said in comments carried in the Iranian press on
     Wednesday.

   Read the rest [1]right here. More on Khatami [2]here.

   I don't view Khatami's statement as being an apology for Iran's
   oppressive regime, nor do I view it as an endorsement of every
   position he might ever have taken. But I do view it as a sign for
   hope. And, I must say, I'm glad not only for his unswerving
   condemnation of the Holocaust, but also for recognizing, at least in
   passing, that there were many victims of Hitler's unforgivable evil.

   I don't mention it much because she is a private person, but, my
   mother-in-law has a small tattoo that she rarely shows anybody (and
   she might be embarrassed if she even reads this). She's a Pole, and
   was one of Mengele's kids. She was injected as a child with multiple
   experimental vaccines at his hands. The Jews were their most obvious
   victims, but they were not alone. The Gypsies, the Slavs, and
   countless other "undesirables" were their slaves and their
   experimental specimens.

   I have no excuses--none--for Iran's current ruling regime, which
   oppresses the everyday people of Iran and endangers all those around
   it. But I give a small cheer for this uniquivocal stance made by
   ex-President Khatami.

   (Via Ali, whom I think [3]draws some wrong lessons.)

References

   1. http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=15873
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami
   3. http://eteraz.org/story/2006/12/19/83228/139