by Bruce Bawer
While in Budapest attending the Conference on Democracy and Human Rights, the vice-chairman of "Egypt's top secular party" makes a few eye-opening statements:
He denied that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.
“The Holocaust is a lie” Mr. Ezz El-Arab said. “The Jews under German occupation were 2.4 million. So if they were all exterminated, where does the remaining 3.6 million come from?”
Mr. Ezz El-Arab said he accepted that the Nazis killed “hundreds of thousands” of Jews. “But gas chambers and skinning them alive and all this? Fanciful stories,” he added.
Mr. Ezz El-Arab also attacked the authenticity of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” which he said he studied as a doctoral student in Stockholm. “I could swear to God it’s a fake,” the Wafd leader said. “The girl was there, but the memoirs are a fake.”
Fortunately, there are non-secular parties in Egypt whose officials do acknowledge that the Holocaust took place. Unfortunately, more than a few of them think that it was a good thing.
The Dish 