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'''Roger Garaudy''' is a [[France|French]] [[author]] and [[philosopher]], and former [[communism|communist]] who has converted to [[Islam]]. In 1998, a French court found him guilty of Holocaust denial and "racial defamation," fining him FF 120,000 ($40,000) for his 1995 book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. The book declared that during the Holocaust, Jews were not killed in gas chambers.[http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/vaziri_garaudy.html] Still cited as a credible source in some circles, the book was quickly translated into Arabic and Farsi and a Sudanese lawyer, Faruk M. Abu Eissa (nominated for the 1998 UN Human Rights Award) assembled a five-man legal team to support Garaudy at his trial in Paris. |
'''Roger Garaudy''' is a [[France|French]] [[author]] and [[philosopher]], and former [[communism|communist]] who has converted to [[Islam]]. In 1998, a French court found him guilty of Holocaust denial and "racial defamation," fining him FF 120,000 ($40,000) for his 1995 book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. The book declared that during the Holocaust, Jews were not killed in gas chambers.[http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/vaziri_garaudy.html] Still cited as a credible source in some circles, the book was quickly translated into Arabic and Farsi and a Sudanese lawyer, Faruk M. Abu Eissa (nominated for the 1998 UN Human Rights Award) assembled a five-man legal team to support Garaudy at his trial in Paris. |
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Garaudy is also known to be a friend of [[Abbé Pierre]]. The year of Garaudy's conviction, Abbé Pierre endorsed "the Founding Myths..." and also compared the Holocaust to the supposed atrocities of the ancient Israelites. Pierre was condemned by Paris Archbishop Lustiger for making attacks “against Zionism and against Jews in general.” |
Garaudy is also known to be a friend of [[Abbé Pierre]]. The year of Garaudy's conviction, Abbé Pierre endorsed "the Founding Myths..." and also compared the Holocaust to the supposed atrocities of the ancient Israelites. Pierre was condemned by Paris Archbishop Jean-Marie Lustiger (a Jewish convert to Catholicism who lost many family members at Auschwitz) for making attacks “against Zionism and against Jews in general.” |
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Garaudy has written over 20 books, including: |
Garaudy has written over 20 books, including: |
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Revision as of 19:28, 23 January 2005
Roger Garaudy is a French author and philosopher, and former communist who has converted to Islam. In 1998, a French court found him guilty of Holocaust denial and "racial defamation," fining him FF 120,000 ($40,000) for his 1995 book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. The book declared that during the Holocaust, Jews were not killed in gas chambers.[1] Still cited as a credible source in some circles, the book was quickly translated into Arabic and Farsi and a Sudanese lawyer, Faruk M. Abu Eissa (nominated for the 1998 UN Human Rights Award) assembled a five-man legal team to support Garaudy at his trial in Paris.
Garaudy is also known to be a friend of Abbé Pierre. The year of Garaudy's conviction, Abbé Pierre endorsed "the Founding Myths..." and also compared the Holocaust to the supposed atrocities of the ancient Israelites. Pierre was condemned by Paris Archbishop Jean-Marie Lustiger (a Jewish convert to Catholicism who lost many family members at Auschwitz) for making attacks “against Zionism and against Jews in general.”
Garaudy has written over 20 books, including:
- Do we need God? (Avons-nous besoin de Dieu?)
- God is dead (Dieu est mort)
- The grandeur and decadences of Islam
- Islam and integrism
- Call to the living
- Who do you say that I am?
- Towards a war of religion