Fathi Shihab: “The Greatest Lie In Human History.”
Sharona Schwartz, TheBlaze — Fathi Shihab is a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who used to head its labor department, but now chairs the Culture, Tourism & Information Committee in the Egyptian parliament.According to Front Page Magazine Writer Daniel Greenfield, Shihab also heads the Supreme Press Council, which means he’s responsible for choosing editors for the state-owned newspapers, making his a voice to which people listen.
That he occupies this influential position in the Egyptian establishment is raising alarm about an article he wrote in 2010.
On Saturday, Greenfield – who refers to the official as Fathi Shihab-Eddin – published quotes from an article Shihab wrote in 2010 on the Brotherhood’s website, Ikhwan Online, in which he claims the Holocaust was an American fabrication and an effort at propaganda to disparage the Nazis. Shihab also wrote that six million Jews were never murdered, rather moved to the U.S.
The year he published his article, 2010, was the same year now-President Mohammed Morsi stated that Jews are “the descendants of apes and pigs” and “bloodsuckers who attack Palestinians.” Morsi’s spokesman now claims those words were taken out of context.
Here is the translation of one of Shihab’s quotes (via FrontPageMag.com):
The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented. U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created it to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit “Hiroshima and Nagasaki” with the atomic bomb.
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Perhaps the most notorious Holocaust denier in the region is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who calls the extermination of six million Jews during World War II “a myth” and says that Israel exploits the Holocaust to extract world sympathy. Note that “myth” is the same word the Egyptian official Shihab used to describe the Holocaust.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad called on Muslim nations to mobilize together to destroy Zionism – that is, Israel. Whether by design or not, Ahmadinejad made his call on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Egyptian media reported last week that Ahmadinejad will visit Egypt on February 6, the first visit by an Iranian head of state in 30 years. » Read More
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Sharona Schwartz is a Middle East correspondent for TheBlaze. Prior to joining the site, she was coverage manager at CNN’s Washington bureau. She also served at the network as scriptwriter for Wolf Blitzer, State Department producer and Middle East producer. She and CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta received the Clarion award for their report, "Sabrina's Law."
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