Can you believe that only six decades after the liberation of Auschwitz and the other National SOCIALIST death camps, a major international leader wants to argue that it didn't happen -- and condemns those who object to his abrogation of documented historical fact as emotional and illogical?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust is a matter for academic discussion and the West should be more tolerant of his views, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad last week called the Holocaust a myth and suggested Israel be moved to Germany or Alaska, remarks that sparked international uproar and threaten diplomatic talks with Europe over Iran's nuclear programme.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi defended the president's remarks, which also drew a rebuke from the U.N. Security Council.

"What the president said is an academic issue. The West's reaction shows their continued support for Zionists," Asefi told a weekly news conference.

"Westerners are used to leading a monologue but they should learn to listen to different views," he added.

Some 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945.

Ahmadinejad, a former Revolutionary Guardsman who was elected president, also said in October Israel was a "tumour" that must be "wiped off the map".

A statement drafted by European Union leaders described last week's Holocaust comment as "wholly unacceptable". The White House termed the remarks "outrageous".

Asefi denounced international condemnation as emotional and illogical.

"The EU statement is not based on international diplomatic norms. They should avoid illogical methods," he said.

"Westerners are used to leading a monologue, but they should learn to listen to different views."

Fine -- you want scholarly debate and discussion? I'll give you a proposition to debate in a scholarly fashion, and demand that you not engage in emotional and illogical responses.

Muhammad (may pigs shit upon him) was a deranged pedophile whose demented ravings, as recorded in the unholy Koran, have been the leading source of untold misery and evil over the last 14 centuries.

Now stick that in your hookah and smoke it, Mahmoud.

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