oD Writers and the Cartoon Controversy,

David Wood — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:49:47 +0000

Reading through the response of oD writers to this issue, I have varied reactions: Roger Scruton asks some serious questions in amongst his usual scattergun and hardly very pointed attacks on randomly chosen things about the modern world that he doesn't like very much. Sajjad Khan asks what seems to be a very common question from Muslims recently - which is what is the difference between this and holocaust denial. This seems to me to be a depressingly incorrect comparison. The holocaust is not a matter of Jewish belief it is a matter of fact for people of all religions and none. Saying that the holocaust did not happen is simply a lie. Now, the issue we have at question here is a matter of belief. Perhaps for believers, what is believed in is truer and more profound than mundane facts outside of the religion, for the non-religious, less true, but nevertheless these are different categories. To suggest further that the holocaust is an item of Jewish belief like the Torah is simply ignorant. Read the rest of this post...

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oD Writers and the Cartoon Controversy,