Showing posts with label Holocaust-denial. Show all posts
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Holocaust: British Bishop Fined 10,000 Euros for Partial Holocaust Denial

DEUTSCHE WELLE: Ultra-conservative bishop Richard Williamson has been fined 10,000 euros for denying aspects of the Holocaust in an interview for Swedish television. He made the comments while on German soil.

A court in the Bavarian city of Regensburg has fined a conservative British bishop 10,000 euros ($13,500) for partial Holocaust denial in a television interview.

Bishop Richard Williamson did not attend the hearing, and his lawyer said he was instructed not to by his ultra-conservative order, the Saint Pius X Society.

"Bishop Williamson would gladly have come," defense lawyer Matthias Lossmann told the court in Regensburg, "but the Saint Pius X Society suggested he did not. To be precise, they forbade him from coming."

While the maximum sentence for Holocaust denial - a criminal offence in Germany - is five years in prison, the court in Regensburg had said in the run-up to the trial that a fine would be the most likely outcome in the case of a guilty verdict.

The clergyman had already incurred a 12,000-euro fine for a 2008 Swedish television interview he gave from the Saint Pius X seminary near Regensburg. Because Williamson refused to pay this, the Regensburg court elected to open criminal proceedings against him.

In the interview he argued that only "200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps," and further argued that gas chambers had not been used as a method of mass-execution. The German issue >>> msh/dl/AP/AFP, Editor: Chuck Penfold | Friday, April 16, 2010

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Richard Williamson 'Unrepentant' Over Holocaust Denial

THE TELEGRAPH: Richard Williamson, the Catholic Bishop soon to face trial in Germany on charges of denying the Holocaust, is apparently unrepentant, allegedly telling colleagues recently it was a "huge lie" that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.

The notorious English bishop also allegedly told colleagues from his ultraconservative brotherhood that "a completely new world order" had been built on the "fact" that Jews were systematically gassed in concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.

Jews, he added, had become "ersatz saviours thanks to the concentration camps," according to a report in German news magazine Der Spiegel.

"The fact is that the six million people who were supposedly gassed represent a huge lie," it is claimed he wrote to fellow members of the Society of St. Pius X.

In a separate email, he is said to have written that "1.3 million deported people" were not gassed in the Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec and Sobibor concentration camps as historians claim, but were rather transported to the Soviet Union.

Williamson is due to face court in the southern German city of Regensburg on April 16 over allegedly Holocaust-denying remarks he made to Swedish television in January last year. >>> David Wroe in Berlin | Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Piusbruderschaft: Williamson leugnet weiter den Holocaust

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Unbelehrbarer Bischof: Auch ein Jahr nach seiner Holocaust-Leugnung hält der Brite Richard Williamson nach SPIEGEL-Informationen an seinen umstrittenen Thesen fest. Aus Mails der erzkonservativen Piusbruderschaft geht hervor, dass Williamson "die sechs Millionen Vergasten" für "eine Riesenlüge" hält.

Hamburg - Bischof Richard Williamson bestreitet weiter den Holocaust. Während seine erzkonservative Piusbruderschaft direkt mit Papst Benedikt XVI. über Glaubensfragen verhandelt, bleibt der Brite uneinsichtig.

Vor einem Jahr hatte Williamson die katholische Kirche durch seine Ansichten in eine tiefe Krise gestürzt. Aus internen E-Mails der erzkonservativen Piusbruderschaft geht nach SPIEGEL-Informationen hervor, dass Williamson "die sechs Millionen Vergasten" nach wie vor für "eine Riesenlüge" hält. >>> | Samstag, 30. Januar 2010

Bishop Richard Williamson: Holocaust-denial

Friday, September 25, 2009

The Naif-in-Chief

NEW YORK POST: Who wrote President Obama's speech for the start of the UN General As sembly yesterday -- Rodney King? You know, the guy whose videotaped run-in with cops sparked the 1992 LA riots, leading King to ask: "Can't we all just get along?"

Today that question is used derisively, to mock naive "solutions" for social ills. But it essentially sums up Obama's 38-minute UN plea, as Washington's former UN envoy John Bolton noted.

Except that Obama is supposed to be the wise leader of the Free World.

What a truly pathetic performance.

Not only because of the president's stunning cluelessness about the world's nature. But also because of his repeated insults to America. And his back-stabbing of Washington's top Mideast ally, Israel.

Obama, yet again, focused on the world's "distrust" of this nation, thanks to the "belief . . . that America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interest of others" -- presumably, under George W. Bush's presidency.

Not to fear, though; Obama's here: He's closing Gitmo, he said, banning torture, quitting Iraq, scrapping nukes . . .

What about protecting America?

Obama believes "deeply," he said, that "the interests of nations and peoples are shared." (Cue the Kumbaya singers.)

Indeed, he practically begged world leaders to take their "share of responsibility" in responding to global challenges.

Did no one brief him about who'd be at the event? Like lunatic Libyan murderer-in-chief Moammar Khadafy (who ranted for 95 minutes)? And Holocaust-denying, terror-sponsoring, nuke-building, election-stealing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

Obama can't truly believe these guys will do their "share" to make the world safe, however much he pleads.

And what's up with those gratuitous slams at Jerusalem? "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," Obama hissed. He insisted that "Israel respect the legitimate claims . . . of the Palestinians."

Memo to POTUS: Israel has always respected legitimate Palestinian claims.

Indeed, it is neither Israeli disrespect nor settlements that stand in the way of peace there -- but the Palestinian fantasy (fueled by folks like Ahmadinejad) of wiping the Jewish state off the map.

Obama can wish all he wants for everyone to "just get along."

But wishing won't make it happen.

He's got some serious learning to do. [Source: New York Post] | Thursday, September 24, 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009


Ahmadinejad 'Proud'* of Angering West over Holocaust Denial

HAARETZ: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he was proud that the West was outraged over his recent outburst of Holocaust denial, Iran's state news agency reported Monday.

The report by IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that angering the world's "professional man slayers" - an apparent reference to Israel and some in the West - was a source of pride for him.

He did not elaborate further. During a speech on Friday, the Iranian president told a Tehran crowd assembled for Quds (Jerusalem) Day Friday that, "The pretext [Holocaust] for the creation of the Zionist regime [Israel] is false ... It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim." >>> Associated Press and Haaretz Service | Tuesday, September 22, 2009

*What a sick little man Ahmadinejad is! "Proud" of angering the West? He should be thoroughly ashamed of himself! And what about that pathetic excuse for a religious leader, the so-called 'Supreme Leader', Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? What a joke he is!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

German Neo-Nazis Beat Up Black Briton in Front of Family

TIMES ONLINE: A black British man was assaulted in front of his family by three supporters of a German far-right party in Hamburg at the weekend.

Police said that the 46-year-old man was with his wife and four-year-old son at a bakery stall when the men approached him and handed him a flyer for the National Democratic Party.

When the man ripped the pamphlet up his attackers pushed him against a glass window and one man punched him while another sprayed pepper spray in his eyes.

Three suspects, who have not been named, have been arrested and are being investigated on suspicion of causing bodily harm.

The British man was treated in a hospital and released.

News of the attack came on the same day that German prosecutors brought charges against a man accused of hanging a blood-drenched pig’s head and a banner denying the Holocaust at a Jewish cemetery in the city of Erfurt.

The 47-year-old is believed to have hung the pig’s head from the Star of David on the entrance gate to the graveyard in Gotha near Erfurt and thrown two glasses filled with pig’s blood at the gate.

Police also found a cloth banner reading “six million lies” in a reference to the number of Jews killed by the Nazis. >>> Jenny Booth | Monday, August 24, 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Holocaust-denying Bishop Flies Back to Britain after Argentina Orders Him Out

THE TELEGRAPH: Richard Williams, the British bishop whose denial of key facts of the Holocaust provoked a crisis in the Catholic Church, will arrive in London on Wednesday after being expelled from Argentina.

Bishop Williamson, of the ultra-conservative breakaway Catholic group the Society of St Pius X, was dressed all in black, including sunglasses and a black cap, as he made his way through Ezeiza international airport in Buenos Aires to board a British Airways flight.

A man accompanying him manhandled a journalist who asked Bishop Williamson his destination and whether he would recant his views.

He refused to answer questions about his departure, which followed a decision last week by the Argentine government that his immigration papers were not in order and he should leave the country within ten days.

An interview in which the bishop questioned the scale of the Holocaust and the use of gas chambers was broadcast in the week the Pope cancelled his excommunication, sparking fury among Jewish groups.

The government of Argentina, where he had served as head of a seminary near Buenos Aires for the last six years, said that his comments "profoundly insult Argentine society, the Jewish people and humanity in general".

The British-born bishop is a member of the ultra-conservative Catholic group founded by the late Archbishop Lefebvre.

Father Richard Bouchacourt, the head of the Society of St Pius X in South America, told the Telegraph that he hoped that the scandal and attention it had attracted would now be over.

"This has damaged the society and it has damaged the Pope," he said. >>> By Nick Evans in Buenos Aires | Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Bishop Richard Williamson, the Holocaust-denier


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Vatican Controversy Spreads to the Netherlands

NRC HANDELSBLAD: The controversial rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying bishop by pope Benedict XVI is arousing strong reactions in the Netherlands. A theologist is leaving the church and the minister of foreign affairs is getting involved.

Roman Catholic bishop Ad van Luyn of Rotterdam has said that the pope's decision to rehabilitate renegade British bishop Richard Williamson is "disastrous". Speaking on public television, Van Luyn said that Williamson's denial of the Holocaust and its gas chambers are "shocking, totally a-historic, and at odds with the second Vatican Council [the 1962-65 church reform - see below*]". Williamson has claimed that the Nazis did not kill six million Jews, but 300,000 at most.

Following his opposition to modernising the Roman Catholic church, bishop Williamson was excommunicated in 1988, together with three other traditionalist bishops who had turned against reforms. The pope reinstated the four conservatives last week, as part of his stated ambition to reunite all forms of Christian worship under the umbrella of Rome.

A professor of theology and ethics at the Roman Catholic Radboud University in Nijmegen is leaving the church over the issue. Professor Jean-Pierre Wils told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, "For many years it has been known that Williamson and the other three traditionalists are anti-Semites. The pope must have known about this. Only now are people beginning to see what is really happening in the Vatican. People were idolising the pope over the past few years without asking themselves what his political ambitions were. These are political actions, it's not just a theological problem. It is important that political consequences are drawn from this." >>> By Rob Kievit for Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Monday, February 2, 2009

*Traditionalists and the Roman Catholic church

The four bishops whose excommunications were remitted by pope Benedict XVI are Richard Williamson, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, and Alfonso del Gallareta. They are the leaders of a schismatic society, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) inspired by the late archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of Switzerland. Lefebvre, who died in 1991, founded the SSPX in 1970. It is named after pope Pius X, who firmly opposed modernism in the church.

The society rejects the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965 which decided, among other things, that neither today's Jews nor the Jews of the time of Christ were all responsible for the death of Christ. The council also revised the liturgy, lifting some of the restrictions of the traditional Latin mass. Finally, the council aimed for pan-Christian unity (ecumenism) without requiring the conversion of non-Catholic Christians.

Traditionalists view the changes ordained by the Second Vatican Council as contrary to the interests of the church, and want to roll them back.


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