Islam Supports all Oppressed People, Muslim and non-Muslim.
Anas ibn Malik, r.a., narrated: The messenger of Allah,
peace and blessings of Allah be on him, said: Be afraid of
the cry of the oppressed, even if such be an unbeliever,
because such a cry is not hidden [from Allah Almighty]."
[Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, hadith number 12577, the book
of Anas ibn Malik.]
Comments by Kaukab Siddique:
True Muslims support all oppressed people, be they Muslim or
non-Muslim. Thus it is Islamic behavior for Muslims to
support Native American rights in North Dakota and Canada
and indigenous people's rights in Australia as it is to
support African American victims of police atrocities.
Similarly Muslims in South Africa opposed Apartheid.
Support for the oppressed is for their humanity. It does not
imply that Muslims support the ideology of the victims. The
same applies to support for Islamic victims of America.
Muslims should oppose their mistreatment and dehumanization
regardless of the reasons for their imprisonment. If the
Blind Shaikhj Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman is too radical for
comfortable American Muslims, this does not give us the
right to ignore the fact that a blind man is being kept in
solitary confinement or that Dr. Aafia Siddiqi is strip
searched if her relatives come to meet her in prison, or Dr.
Kifah Jayyousi's daughter is forced to talk to him from
behind a glass-plastic aperture.
Guidance
From Sis. Yasmin
Fast on Monday and Thursday but there is a catch
Narrated Abu Hurairah ~ {Allah have mercy on him}~
Allah's Messenger...Prophet ~ [Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam]
said...
The Gates Of Paradise are opened on Mondays and Thursdays
and then every slave of ALLAH is granted Forgiveness If he
does not associate anything with ALLAH in Worship {!}
But ...the person in whose heart there is Rancour against
his Muslim Brother/Sister they will NOT be Pardoned {!} and
with regard to them it will be said Twice.."
{Source:-Sahih.Muslim also by Malik and Abu Dawud }
On October 26, Russian and Shia Alawite jet bombers carried
out six strikes on the village of Haas in Idlib province.
The target was a school. Among the 36 civilians killed were
22 children.
Douma, an Islamic suburb of Damascus run by the FSA was also
bombed by Assad on October 27 killing 8 civilians.
(Source : aljazeera, Syrian Observatory and others.)
Idlib province is under Islamic rule led by FSA factions and
al-Nusra. It is frequently bombed by the Assad regime and
Russia to stop the Muslims from having normal civic
life.
(The atrocity has been condemned worldwide but nothing is
done by America, Turkey or Saudi Arabia to deter the Assad
regime supported by Russia and Iran. America talks against
Assad but does nothing.)
Editorial
The Elephant in the room. When will America talk about
Israel and the Jewish lobby in America?
[From New Trend's media monitor]
Muslims have been talked about ad nauseum during the
presidential campaign. Black people have been talked about
quite regularly. Mexicans have been talked about often.
Why has Israel not been discussed? Why is the Jewish lobby
not even mentioned although it's the most powerful minority
in America?
Even Jewish organizations like AIPAC have not been
mentioned?
Now that we see the Zionists lining up behind Hillary, the
American people might turn on the Jewish power in this
country which is latent not only in politics but in movies,
TV, radio and newspapers.
Why do Americans find themselves unable to say ANYTHING
against Israel?
Why the $38 BILLION military aid package to Israel by Obama
just before the end of his regime? Why are the American
people being defrauded without any discussion of Israel at
all?
SPOTLIGHTS from Br. Badi
How to Face Depression and Stress·
The best cure for depression is prevention. So always keep
an open and optimistic mind.
Control your emotions by controlling your thoughts.
Many people make excuses for themselves and say "Stress made
me do it!" Don't blame your bad decisions on stress! And
remember, resorting to excuses all the time is one of
characteristics of a hypocrite.
At the end of the day, we must remember that we are all
being tested and Allah (SWT) is the most Just.
Depression is an illness. Do not let it destroy you.
Depression is contagious. Stay away from those who complain
and whine all the time
"And never give up hope of Allah's soothing Mercy: truly no
one despairs of Allah's soothing Mercy, except those who
have no faith." (Quran, 12:87).
Depression is disbelief. (Kufr)
-Imam Badi Ali leads a large Muslim community in Greensboro,NC
PAKISTAN
Jamaate Islami's Deputy Leader Advises Women Activists.
Pakistanis Want Sharia.
by Qaiser Sharif
Islamic system only way to progress
LAHORE, Oct. 29; Deputy Chief of the Jamaat e Islami, Rashid
Naseem, has said that the only way to establish a neat and
clean society and for the development of the country was to
adopt the system given by Islam, the religion of nature.
Addressing the workshop for the JI women's wing at Mansoora
on Saturday, he said that Turkey had started its march
toward progress and prosperity only after adopting the
system given by Islam.
The JI deputy chief said that according to recent national
and international surveys, eighty per cent of Pakistanis
wanted the rule of the Shariah whereas the rulers wanted to
push the county towards secularism.
He said that the rulers claiming heavy mandate had only been
indulging in mudslinging against one another. He pointed out
that in the country's elections history, the urn out had
never been fifty per cent. On the average, only thirty per
cent of voters had turned out to vote and almost seventy per
cent of the voters had been indifferent to the polling
process. In this way, those coming to power enjoyed the
support of hardly twenty per cent.
He said there had been martial law for most part of the
country's history, and during the so called democratic rule,
there d been exploitation and injustice, loot and
plunder.
He said that the allegations and counter allegations beings
leveled by the present and past rulers against each other
were quite true and the masses should know their worth.
He said the statement of the Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad
describing the tenure of JI's Naimatullah Khan as Karachi
Mayor as the best and golden period, was the evidence of a
JI's political opponent admitting the integrity of JI
leadership.
Urdu Columnist
Serious Criticism of Imran Khan and his associates by Muneer
Khalili.
Muneer Khalili writes very well in Urdu.
He is very diappointed with the way Imran Khan is
behaving.
Hot rhetoric, fixation on removing Prime Minister Sharif and
women dancing in the streets is not the way to change
Pakistan. Is Imran playing the game of the army?
October 28-30: Shi'ite-Iranian-Hizballah offensive was
beaten back from Aleppo on October 28.
On October 29, mujaheddin in eastern Aleppo, several FSA
factions led by al-Nusra launched an all out counterattack
on the combined pro-regime forces. In spite of air attacks
by Russia and the Damascus regime, the mujahideen broke into
western Aleppo enclave held by the Alaewites. They captured
al-Assad town and are trying to destroy the entire Shiite
defense structure. By last reports 55 of Assad's trops were
killd. Fighting continues on October 30 as Assad urges more
bombing by the Russians and UN claims that mujahadeen are
pushing too hard.
On October 30, ISIS took back from Turkish led fighters the
villahe of Qaer Kalbin which the pro-Turkish militia had
taken on October 29 north of Aleppo.
Also near Kweiris air baseeast of Aleppo, attacked Assad's
forces and pushed them back in heavy fighting.
The Russians are bombing areas of Deir ex Zor under the
control of ISIS while ISIS is using the military areas of
the city, on the west held by Assad. Also ISIS advanced
towards HOMS again and FSA advanced toewards Hama. Fighting
is also reported around Damascus.
IRAQ
Heavy Fighting around Mosul. Kurds and Shi'ites suffered
heavy losses.
American air force is slaughtering the ISIS fighters. 300
ISIS cubs killed.
After two weeks of heavy fighting, the massive Kurdish and
Baghdad army has not been able to reach Mosul. The Kurds
suffered heavily after being hit on the battlefield by a
series of martyrdom attacks. Erbil is in chaotic conditions
as casualties come in.
The Shiite Baghdad forces are bogged down after suffeting
casualties on a daily basis. The Baghdad army kis now
bringing in Shia militias backed by Iran and in some cases
lead by Iranian officers.
Shiite militias advanced towards Tel Afar on the Syria-Iraq
border to cut the ISIS supply line. ISIS reinforcements
have arrived on October 30 [say Reuters and al Jazeera] and
the Shia advance on Tal Afar has bogged down.
Waves of air strikes by American, French, British and
Australian jets are hitting Islamic defenses in Mosul around
the clock. Hundreds of supporters of ISIS were killed
including 300 Islamic Cubs [children] who had come from
Syria to help the Islamic Caliphate.
Pakistan
First ISIS attack in Pakistan. Heavy Police Losses.
Quetta: On October 24, 61 police trainees were killed and
117 injured in an attack claimed by ISIS via Lashkare
Jhangvi and Pak Taliban breakaway group.
The three attackers were also killed.
On October 27, also in Quetta security forces killed four
men said to be connected to the attackers.
Egypt
General Who Protected Israel, Killed.
On October 22, in a suburb of Cairo, an Egyptian army
general was gunned down by attackers who escaped. The
general was in charge of a brigade which guarded the Sinai
border near the Israeli military lines to prevent attacks on
Israel.
News Within the U.S.
Uncovering the Story of Huma Abedin, the Clintons, the
Saudis and the "liberal" wing of Muslim Brotherhood Movement.
by [Imam] Badi Ali
The White House, the Clinton's and the Democrats are putting
up a big fight against their own government and against the
FBI boss. This means that if Mrs. Clinton does not win this
presidency, they will all have some huge loss.
If Hillary Clinton wins, this means that we are entering a
new era: The Era of The United States of the Clintons.
Huma Abedin is an American citizen, born in Michigan with a
Pakistani background. She went to a Saudi school in
Washington, where she learned to speak Arabic well. She has
worked in several Muslim organizations and her parents
worked in Saudi Arabia, influenced by the Saudi tradition.
Huma Abedin is a close friend of Hillary's and they
obviously have shared a lot of time together. Among the many
ideas they share: they both believe that men are nothing but
dogs who only betray women.
It has been said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan asked Bill
Clinton to hire Abedin in the White House for translation.
Later, she became an important member for the Clinton
foundation.
Huma Abedin violated the principle of her faith by marrying
a Jewish Congressman. They separated when her husband was
accused of a sexting scandal in which he sent inappropriate
images and texts to underaged girls.
Huma, who had relationships with different Arab politicians,
represents a medium between these politicians and the
Clintons. Clinton was receiving information regarding the
Muslim world from Huma. Huma adopted the understandings and
approaches of the Saudis and conveyed information and
letters to the Clintons, who took her messages as expert
opinion.
Huma's family are openly and well-connected to the liberal
wing of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and to the royal
family of the rich Arab countries. Huma is the main driving
force behind the new policies and destruction of the Middle
East.
Huma was a friend of Hisham al Talib, Jamal Barzinji and
Ahmed Totnaji who were Muslim brother leaders from Iraq who
were against Saddam Hussein. They were also advocates for
the American war on Iraq and the occupation of Iraq.
Therefore, this explains why Clinton was an advocate for the
war on Iraq.
The question here: With all Abedin's family background that
is connected to the wealthy regimes as well as most of the
mainstream Muslim organizations, why did she marry a Jewish
congressman? Was she planted to serve these rich, wealthy
countries as well as the interests of the American
country?
This explains why the Clintons have started to behave like
the royals too. Huma is telling them that according to the
Arab culture, it is imperative to accept their gifts as well
as to become rich at the expense of the American people.
RESEARCH
Domestic Violence in Jewish Law
[Note from New Trend Editor: This is published for
educational purposes. Not for profit.]
Excerpt from Article:
'Much of the discussion around beating of wives as
"punishment" occurs in the context of the grounds for a
divorce. Immodest behavior considered worthy of punishment
includes "going out with uncovered head, spinning wool with
uncovered arms in the street, conversing with every man."
MyJewishLearning.com/article/domestic-violence-in-jewish-law
"How Judaism Views Wifebeating"
By Naomi Graetz
For many years there has been a myth that domestic violence
among Jewish families was infrequent. However, there is much
data demonstrating that domestic abuse is a significant and
under-recognized behavior in Jewish communities in Israel
and the Diaspora. Jewish women typically take a longer time
to leave abusive relationships for fear that they will lose
their children and because they are aware of the
difficulties in obtaining a get, a Jewish divorce document.
Wife beating in Rabbinic Literature
In biblical times, acts of sexual assault and abuse against
women were of concern to the degree that they violated male
property rights. The Bible delineated the marriage
relationship by calling the husband ba'al which implies both
ownership and lordship ( Ex. 21:28). Thus, for example, if a
wife is physically harmed by someone, compensation is paid
to her husband. The husband is not only the owner of his
wife, he is also the owner of her pregnancy ( Ex. 21:22). If
a man's "property rights" are violated, he is entitled to
compensation.
In Mishnaic and Talmudic literature there is no reference to
battered women as a class, and the Talmud does not discuss
wife beating as a distinct category of corporeal damage. The
one major allusion to wife beating in the Talmud is couched
in a discussion about the unlearned lower class, the am
ha-aretz (lit. "people of the land"). "It was taught, R.
Meir used to say: Whoever marries his daughter to an am
ha-aretzis as though he bound and laid her before a lion:
just as a lion tears [his prey] and devours it and has no
shame, so an am ha-aretz strikes [hits/beats] and cohabits
and has no shame"(B. Pesahim 49b).
Much of the discussion around beating of wives as
"punishment" occurs in the context of the grounds for a
divorce. Immodest behavior considered worthy of punishment
includes "going out with uncovered head, spinning wool with
uncovered arms in the street, conversing with every man."
The list of women deemed worthy of being divorced without
receiving their ketubah, ("divorce compensation"), includes
the following case: "Abba Saul said: Also that of a wife who
curses her husband's parents in his presence [and in his
children's presence]. R. Tarfon said: also one who screams."
(B. Ketubbot 72a). Although beating is not allowed or even
suggested in the case of the screamer, the woman who curses
will in later rabbinic texts be repeatedly used as an
example of where beating is a justified means to an end.
ANALYSIS
Shi'aism emanated from the ideas of Ibn Saba and Mukhtar and
continued to Develop in opposition to Islam.
[Part 2]
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
In part 1, I discussed the criticism of Shiaism by Muslim
scholars and the false Shia denial of any significant role
for Ibn Saba.
Muslim historians do confirm the historic reality of Ibn
Saba and after that of Mukhtar. The seminal; but undeveloped
concepts of the "infallibility" of Ali, r.a., and Ali's
"disappearance" and his expected return are available in the
rumors spread by Ibn Saba. These concepts were picked up by
Mukhtar who claimed that the third son of Ali, r.a, Muhammad
ibn al-Hanfiyyah too was infallible and he was the
Mahdi.
[As I pointed out the 13 hadith about the Sunni idea of
"Mahdi" were debunked by Ibn Khaldun as fabrications or too
weak to determine any matter of faith.]
The literature which is not available to me was researched
by William F. Tucker, a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies and
Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. Tucker
affirms that Ibn Saba was definitely an influential historic
person. In his book Mahdis and Millenarians [Cambridge
University Press, 2008] Tucker has a chapter on Bayan ibn
Sama'an. Tucker documents the further development of the
Sabayya mythology by Bayan who rose against the Ummayad
governor of Iraq, was defeated in battle and executed in 737
c.e.
Bayan and his cult, the Bayaniyyah. according to Tucker
based on Muslim sources, extended the Mahdi idea to Abu
Hashim, the son of Muhammad ibn al-Hanfiyyah. They claimed
that Abu Hashim was the Mahdi. Thus the progression of
"imamat" from father to son became part of Shi'aism and
survives into the beliefs of the 12er Shias in Iran
today.
Bayan took an open ended attitude towards the Qur'an and
could project any word he found favorable to extend the
influence of his cult. For instance, Bayan claimed that a
word in the Quran referred to him because it says: "This is
a manifestation [bayan] to the people." [3:132]
This "symbolic" misuse of the Qur'an became typical of
Shi'ism. Modern shias, for instance often claim that the
word "shia" in the Quran refers to them.
Bayan and more "liberally" his cult claimed that Allah has a
"face" [nauzoobillah] because the Qur'an uses the word
"face" for God. This totally subjective misuse of the Qur'an
became typical of the Ismaili cult of Shiiam. . It has also
influenced Sufiism.
Another important Shia belief which comes from Bayan is that
the Prophet, pbuh, Fatima, r.a., and the imams of the Shias
are from a "pre-existent" light. God is light and all those
who have God in them are also made of light.
[nauzoobillah].
Tucker does not say so but I have noticed in my studies that
sufiism too is heavily influenced by this heresy of the
"pre-existent light."
The Qur'an is the antidote for these Shia beliefs because
Allah told the Prophet, pbuh, to say to the people that he,
pbuh, was a human like them except that he, pbuh, received
revelation [wahi].
"Say [O Muhammad], I am no more than a human being like you,
one to whom revelation is made. 'Your Lord is the one and
only God. Hence whoever looks forward to meet his Lord, let
him do righteous works, and let him not associate anyone
with the worship of his Lord.' " [The Qur'an 18:110]
To be continued, inshaAllah.
VIEWPOINT
A Big Attempt to Deny Holocaust Denial Failed Miserably.
Foreword to Fail: "Denying History"
by Germar Rudolf
[Rudolf is the most outstanding critic of the holocaust
story today ....Editor of New Trend]
October 23, 2016
This is my foreword to Carlo Mattogo's book Fail: "Denying
History." How Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman Botched Their
Attempt to Refute Those Who Say the Holocaust Never
Happened.
When you go to Amazon and pull up Michael Shermer's and Alex
Grobman's book Denying History, here is what comes up (see
the cover of the 2009 edition below):
"Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who
say the Holocaust never happened and explores the
motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have
dismissed the Holocaust deniers as antisemitic neo-Nazi
thugs who do not deserve a response, historians Michael
Shermer and Alex Grobman have immersed themselves in the
minds and culture of these Holocaust 'revisionists.' In the
process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust
happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any
historical event. This edition is expanded with a new
chapter and epilogue examining current, shockingly
mainstream revisionism."
Cover of Shermer/Grobman, 'Denying History', 2009
The primary author of this book, Michael Shermer, has
written on the subject since 1994, when he dedicated the
major part of an issue of his Skeptic Magazine to
discussing, "Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened? And Why
Do They Say It?," the issue's subtitle, which is also the
subtitle of the book that is the topic of the present
study.[1]
Discussing revisionist arguments, rather than ignoring them,
was still a rather new, if not revolutionary approach back
in the 1990s. As a result, Shermer became the scholar to go
to when it came to "refuting the deniers."
He subsequently had a number of exchanges with revisionists,
most notably an appearance on national TV on March 14, 1994
during an episode of the Phil Donahue Show, where Shermer
debated the two U.S. revisionists David Cole and Bradley
Smith. This debate can be watched online
YouTube.com/watch?v=VUjRIcgtz2Y
A little more than a year later, Michael Shermer accepted
the invitation of the revisionist Institute for Historical
Review for a panel discussion with the Institute's director
Mark Weber. This discussion took place on July 22, 1995, and
can also be watched online
YouTube.com/watch?v=4l8ZUVVB4z8
Rather than foisting my own opinion upon the reader, I
invite you to watch these debates and make up your own mind
regarding Shermer's competence.
There is more to it than meets the spectator's eye, though,
because the Donahue Show had a very interesting background
story which David Cole told in his 2014 book Republican
Party Animal [3] and the various interviews he has given in
more recent years about it, most of which are on YouTube. A
summary of this background story was compiled by Jonas E.
Alexis in his online paper "David Cole/Stein, Michael
Shermer, Holocaust Denial, and Mystery Religions."[4]
The gist of it is that Shermer was coached by Cole prior to
the Donahue Show, because Shermer was a novice in the field
and would have looked like a fool during the show, had Cole
not helped him out. Cole gave Shermer a list with all the
revisionist arguments he planned on bringing up. He then
encouraged Shermer to approach the best scholars in the
field for the best rebuttals.
The experts Shermer subsequently approached to help him
prepare his rebuttal were: Michael Berenbaum (then-director
of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and its research
institute), Sybil Milton (senior historian at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Henry Friedlander (a
Holocaust survivor who, for a quarter of a century, taught
history in the Department of Judaic Studies at the City
University of New York), and Alex Grobman (founding
editor-in-chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual). The
latter, of course, is Shermer's co-author for the book under
review here.
And here is the result of Shermer's inquiry with these
experts, as told by David Cole:[5]
"I asked him the results of his attempts to get Berenbaum,
Milton, Friedlander, and Grobman to address my points.
Michael told me, bluntly, that they were unable to address
them at all. In fact, he said, these foremost 'experts'
seemed stymied by the issues I raised regarding Auschwitz
and Majdanek.
'What are you going to say tomorrow?' I asked him
point-blank.
'I'll tell the truth.'
'You'll tell Donahue that you weren't able to get answers to
any of my questions? From the biggest names in the
field?'
'That would be the only ethical thing to do.'"
But that's not what Shermer subsequently did, as you can see
yourself when watching the show.
In fact, as Cole reports and documents in his book, Shermer
admitted to Cole in private that revisionists have the truth
on their side in some regards, but when speaking out or
writing publicly, he said the exact opposite. Shermer knew
that admitting publicly that we revisionists have many valid
points would ruin his career. So he went the other way,
lying in public about the revisionists and the validity of
their arguments rather than doing "the only ethical thing to
do."
In subsequent years, Shermer published two more works on the
issue. One, titled Why People Believe Weird Things, came out
in 1997.[6] Holocaust Revisionism was only one topic among
many addressed in this study.
Cover of 2002 edition of Shermer's 'Why People Believe Weird
Things'
The cover of the current, 2002 edition of Shermer's book Why
People Believe Weird Things.
Why People Believe Weird Things can be regarded as a mere
stepping stone between Shermer's Skeptic article and his
"ultimate" study on the topic in Denying History. So I won't
spend much time on it here.
The first edition of Denying History appeared in 2000. I can
only speculate why Alex is Shermer's co-author, since he
isn't exactly an expert in the field of Holocaust studies
either. But considering that Grobman is the founding editor
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's annual periodical, the
reason is not hard to guess.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is firmly invested not only in
making sure that no revisions of the orthodox Holocaust
narrative will ever be accepted by the mainstream, they are
also heavily engaged in spreading false atrocity propaganda
in order to push the world into wars against whomever they
perceive as an enemy.
Case in point in this regard is the spring 1991 issue of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center's periodical Response, which I
reproduce here. The Wiesenthal Center claims that this
particular issue was distributed in 381,065 copies mainly
all over the U.S. On the cover we read:
Response, volume 12, no. 1, spring 1991.
Response, volume 12, no. 1, spring 1991 (click to
enlarge).
"GERMANS PRODUCE ZYKLON B IN IRAQ"
And beneath the illustration of a German-made disinfection
device we read the caption:
"(Iraq's German-made gas chamber)"
When opening the magazine, right on page 2, we read
there:
"Shocking Revelation: German Firms Produce Zyklon B in
Iraq
True to their legacy of their Nazi-era predecessors, the
German business community has sought to absolve itself of
its share of blame in the current Middle East disaster. 'We
did not knowingly supply Iraq with weapons of mass
destructions - we violated no law - we were just filling
orders...' [...]
Even more ominous is the report that Iraq has developed a
new potent gas which actually contains Zyklon B. [...] this
gas, and the nerve gas, Tabun, were tested on Iranian POWs
in gas chambers specially designed for the Iraqis by the
German company [...] (see cover photo of gas chamber
prototype). German Gas Chamber: Nightmare Revisited."
Needless to say, it was all a lie, designed to stir up the
world to wage the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein.
Why would the Simon Wiesenthal Center get involved in this
anyway, other than for having a staunch Zionist, war-hawk
stance on politics?
And where is the connection to our topic? Well, what can you
expect from an author who is also the editor of a periodical
published by an institution that readily spreads lies to
further extreme political goals like stirring up for war?
And why would Shermer, the skeptic, team up with him?
When keeping in mind that Shermer had a rather friendly and
understanding attitude toward revisionists in the mid-1990s,
the reason for his teaming up with Grobman becomes readily
visible. Having intimately socialized with revisionists,
Shermer had tarnished his reputation. He who lies with dogs
rises with fleas. So he needed an antidote, and in the
business at hand, a Jewish chaperon from the fundamentalist
Simon Wiesenthal Center is the best antidote one can think
of.
This Jewish chaperon was probably the political
prerequisite to turn this book into a commercial success.
Grobman's Jewish name and maybe even his intervention when
it comes to the book's contents and terminology probably
kept the book "kosher."
Alex Grobman[7]
In 2009, an new "updated and expanded" edition appeared. It
was expanded by adding a chapter on "The New Revisionism" to
the end of the book, which deals with "Race, Politics and
the Unnecessary Good War." Because it has nothing to with
Holocaust revisionism, we will ignore this new chapter
here.
The second expansion happened by replacing the old 4-page
epilogue with a new 12-page one that focuses entirely on
British historian David Irving's forced march from being a
mainstream scholar to becoming a "Holocaust denier." While
this may be interesting to some, it has little to do with
Holocaust revisionism, since David Irving has never
published even a single paper on the Holocaust, let alone a
monograph. He certainly made many provocative remarks about
the Holocaust since the mid-1980s, but he is not at all an
expert in the field, and says so at every opportunity.
Shermer's focus on him, which can even be glimpsed from the
Index where Irving has one of the longest entries, is
therefore utterly misplaced.
Next, let's see in which way the new, 2009 edition has been
"updated". Let me approach this by asking, in which way
should the book have been updated? Most non-fiction books
need updating, if, since its last edition, relevant has
happened in the field it addresses. In the present case,
this means that any major revisionist publication which is
superior to earlier works ought to be addressed by Shermer
in an updated edition.
But no!
Between the appearance of the first edition of Denying
History in 2000 and the second edition in 2009, many new,
ground-breaking revisionist studies appeared as journal
articles and books, which no serious scholar claiming to
refute the "deniers" can ignore. To be easy on Shermer and
Grobman, I ignore here the many relevant works published in
other languages, foremost those in Italian, German and
French, and will focus exclusively on those in the English
language. And to be even more merciful with them, I name
here no journal articles but only monographs, and among them
only the most important ones (which are all part of the
prestigious series Holocaust Handbooks):
Germar Rudolf (ed.), Dissecting the Holocaust: The Growing
Critique of 'Truth' and 'Memory', Theses & Dissertations
Press, Chicago 2000 (2nd, revised edition 2003)
Germar Rudolf, The Rudolf Report: Expert Report on Chemical
and Technical Aspects of the "Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz,
Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003
Jürgen Graf, The Giant with Feet of Clay: Raul Hilberg and
his Standard Work on the 'Holocaust', Theses & Dissertations
Press, Capshaw, Ala., 2001
Jürgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno, Concentration Camp Stutthof:
Its History & Function in National Socialist Jewish Policy;
Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2003 (2nd ed., ibid.,
2004)
Jürgen Graf, Carlo Mattogno, Concentration Camp Majdanek: A
Historical and Technical Study; Theses & Dissertations
Press, Chicago 2003 (2nd ed., ibid., 2004)
Don Heddesheimer, The First Holocaust: The Surprising Origin
of the Six-Million Figure; Theses & Dissertations Press,
Chicago 2003
Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf, Treblinka: Extermination Camp
or Transit Camp?, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2004
Carlo Mattogno, Belzec in Propaganda, Testimonies,
Archeological Research, and History, Theses & Dissertations
Press, Chicago 2004
Carlo Mattogno, Special Treatment in Auschwitz: Origin and
Meaning of a Term, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2004
Carlo Mattogno, The Bunkers of Auschwitz: Black Propaganda
versus History, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2004
Carlo Mattogno, The Central Construction Office of the
Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz: Organization,
Responsibilities, Activities, Theses & Dissertations Press,
Chicago 2005
Germar Rudolf (ed.): Auschwitz: Plain Facts: A Response to
Jean-Claude Pressac, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2005
Germar Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial
Issues Cross Examined, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2005
Fred A. Leuchter, Robert Faurisson, Germar Rudolf, The
Leuchter Reports: Critical Edition, Theses & Dissertations
Press, Chicago 2005
Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz: Open-Air Incinerations, Theses &
Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005
Germar Rudolf, Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz Lies: Legends,
Lies, and Prejudices on the Holocaust, Theses &
Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005
Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz: The First Gassing: Rumor and
Reality, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago 2005
Carlo Mattogno, Auschwitz: Crematorium I and the Alleged
Homicidal Gassings, Theses & Dissertations Press, Chicago
2005
Several more monographs have appeared since 2010 but, of
course, they could not have been covered by Shermer in the
2009 edition.
I have rendered in bold the book which contains an earlier
version of the present rebuttal of the 2000 edition of
Shermer's Denying History.
One important criterion of scholarship is that one
absolutely has to discuss published opposing opinions, in
particular if they are directly aimed at one's work, and if
discussing opposing opinions is the declared goal of a
study. Both are the case here. Shermer claims to discuss and
refute revisionist arguments. So, does the 2009 edition of
their book fulfill the minimum requirements of scholarship
by updating it to include a discussion of these new
revisionist works and the arguments they contain?
Actually, comparing the two editions of 2000 and 2009
results in the astonishing fact that nothing of the old text
was updated at all! The only changes to the 2009 edition are
the added chapter and rewritten Epilogue, both of which are
irrelevant in the present context. The bibliography does
not contain any of the books I just listed, and the index
has no entries on the most important revisionist authors
pointing to pages in the book where any of their works or
arguments are discussed.
In other words, the claim that the 2009 edition was
"updated" is simply a lie, an implicit denial of the
existence of opposing facts, evidence and arguments.
three_monkeysHence, Shermer simply plays the infamous three
monkeys, pretending that there is nothing to see, nothing to
listen to, and nothing to say about the ever-growing body of
revisionist research results.
Nowadays, any book talking about "Holocaust Denial" has to
address first and foremost the arguments laid out in the
almost 40 volumes of the growing series Holocaust Handbooks
(accessible at www.HolocaustHandbooks.com). Any such
"debunking" needs to have its main focus also on the many
papers and monographs written by Carlo Mattogno, whose
knowledge on the Holocaust may be second to none, and that
not only includes the revisionists, but probably also all
orthodox Holocaust historians worldwide.
In Shermer's book, however, you will search in vain for the
name Carlo Mattogno (other than in a caption to an
irrelevant photo on p. 42) . Maybe he is unfamiliar with
Mattogno's work, and also with the series Holocaust
Handbooks. Even though that is possible, it is not an
excuse. If an author is unfamiliar with the most important
published works of the topic he is addressing, he cannot
seriously claim to be a scholar. He is an ignorant fool at
best. Or else he knows what he is omitting, and then he is
merely a liar, an obfuscator and a fraud.
Denying History is therefore merely another work produced by
a set of deliberately autistic fiction writers.
Germar Rudolf, Red Lion, August 11, 2016
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[1] Michael Shermer's paper itself in that issue was titled
"Proving the Holocaust: The Refutation of Revisionism & the
Restoration of History," Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4
(June 1994), pp. 32-57
(www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/skeptic.magazine/).
[2] A summary of that event was published in the Institute's
periodical M. Weber, "Debating the Undebatable: The
Weber-Shermer Clash," The Journal of Historical Review, Vol.
16, No. 1 (1996), pp. 23-34.
