Saturday, January 20, 2007

Is it a crime or just idiocy? / International Herald Tribune, 19 January 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/19/opinion/edsokol.php
Ronald Sokol
"Last week, Germany proposed that all European Union members adopt a uniform law to make Holocaust denial a criminal offense. Denial of the Holocaust is already a crime in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland.
The proposal has prompted a sharp debate on whether denial of an historical event should ever be criminalised."