PARIS (JTA)A French human rights group says it will press charges against a Holocaust-denying British bishop.
The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism said Wednesday in a statement that it would charge Richard Williamson with contesting crimes against humanity and denying the Holocaust in an article published in the German der Spiegel magazine and in a television interview.
In an interview published Monday in der Spiegel, Williamson said he needed proof that the Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews during the Holocaust, despite a recent request by Pope Benedict XVI that the rehabilitated bishop distance himself from such views.
It is entirely reasonable and appropriate that a human person should be able to ask for proof, when he is being subjected to tyrannical demands to recant his personal beliefs. It is shocking in the extreme that anyone could imagine that this asking for proof is in any way criminal.
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The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism said Wednesday in a statement that it would charge Richard Williamson with contesting crimes against humanity and denying the Holocaust in an article published in the German der Spiegel magazine and in a television interview.
In an interview published Monday in der Spiegel, Williamson said he needed proof that the Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews during the Holocaust, despite a recent request by Pope Benedict XVI that the rehabilitated bishop distance himself from such views.
It is entirely reasonable and appropriate that a human person should be able to ask for proof, when he is being subjected to tyrannical demands to recant his personal beliefs. It is shocking in the extreme that anyone could imagine that this asking for proof is in any way criminal.
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