U.S. professor supports Iranian president's Holocaust statements

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(Chicago Tribune (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) CHICAGO _ A Northwestern University professor known for denying the Holocaust happened has publicly sided with Iran's hard-line president, who has been on a campaign against Israel.

Engineering professor Arthur Butz said that he agrees with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remarks calling the Holocaust a "myth." Butz said his comments supporting the president recently were published by the English-language Tehran Times and Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency.

Butz, a tenured professor whose views have been known in the United States for years, is being promoted by Iranian news sources as one of the world scholars who support Ahmadinejad's views on the Holocaust.

"I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues and regret only that it was not a Western head of state," Butz said in a Mehr news report. He posted the same comments on his Northwestern-provided Web site.

Jewish leaders expressed fear that support from a United States educator could add credibility to Ahmadinejad's comments about Israel and the Holocaust.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/04/1342619.htm

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There are a lot of good Ph.D.s out there who would love a job at Northwestern. Hint, hint, hint.

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In breaking news Arthur Butz and Ahmadinejad both do believe in Santa Claus.

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There are a lot of good Ph.D.s out there who would love a job at Northwestern. Hint, hint, hint.

What's interesting is that he's an ENGINEERING professor.

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Holocaust denial is a field that blows my mind like none other. I can understand atheism, for example, even if I don't agree with it; plenty of people prefer not to believe in something for which they have no empirical proof. But there are photographs and eyewitness testimony about the concentration camps and forced removals. The Nazis were meticulous record-keepers; their own documents reflect the move toward the "Final Solution."

And yet there are Holocaust deniers. It's stunning.

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Holocaust denial is a field that blows my mind like none other. I can understand atheism, for example, even if I don't agree with it; plenty of people prefer not to believe in something for which they have no empirical proof. But there are photographs and eyewitness testimony about the concentration camps and forced removals. The Nazis were meticulous record-keepers; their own documents reflect the move toward the "Final Solution."

And yet there are Holocaust deniers. It's stunning.

Denying the Holocaust serves a purpose. That's why they deny it. Don't look for your usual scientific analysis in the minds of Holocaust deniers. Their agenda is much more basic.

Think about it: if the Jews made up the Holocaust, makes it real easy to hate them doesn't it?

Edited February 8, 2006 by Agent Smith

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I think he needs a history lesson, and a permanent vacation! I hear the MOJAVE is nice this time of year!

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There are a lot of good Ph.D.s out there who would love a job at Northwestern. Hint, hint, hint.

What's interesting is that he's an ENGINEERING professor.

That quite obviously has no clue about history.

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We could attach electrodes to his nipples and tell him. "BTW, this isn't really happening" zap zap

[Carol&Marc 0]

We could attach electrodes to his nipples and tell him. "BTW, this isn't really happening" zap zap

LMAO or maybe some good cartoons????

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We could attach electrodes to his nipples and tell him. "BTW, this isn't really happening" zap zap

Dude, I just spilled my coffee. Awesome...

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There are a lot of good Ph.D.s out there who would love a job at Northwestern. Hint, hint, hint.

What's interesting is that he's an ENGINEERING professor.

So extracting his head from outta his A$s should pose no technical difficulty then

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There are a lot of good Ph.D.s out there who would love a job at Northwestern. Hint, hint, hint.

What's interesting is that he's an ENGINEERING professor.

So extracting his head from outta his A$s should pose no technical difficulty then

he is a typical chopf##k