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With great conviction, my half-sister cried: "It's a lie! Jews have a way of blinding people. They were not killed, gassed or massacred. But I pray to Allah that one day all the Jews in the world will be destroyed."
She was not saying anything new. As a child growing up in Saudi Arabia, I remember my teachers, my mom and our neighbors telling us practically on a daily basis that Jews are evil, the sworn enemies of Muslims, and that their only goal was to destroy Islam. We were never informed about the Holocaust.
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Western leaders today who say they are shocked by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's conference this week denying the Holocaust need to wake up to that reality. For the majority of Muslims in the world, the Holocaust is not a major historical event that they deny. We simply do not know it ever happened because we were never informed of it.
Why they deny the Holocaust
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From the inside view: I grew up as a child in Germany in the late 60's and 70's where the dear educational system that was and still is very much controlled by the Government, conveniently skipped WWI and WWII. We were told that it happened, but that "what" happened. I educated myself on the atrocities that Germany had committed in both wars after I immigrated to the United States in 1983 and beyond. Information on all wars was freely available here. "If no one chooses to tell you, how can you possibly know?"
Believe it or not, until 1983 my Grandmothers believed that it was the American's fault that WWII was started. Misinformation and no information can be a very dangerous thing.
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