Brussels: Mosque links to Holocaust denial sites

Brussels: Mosque links to Holocaust denying sites

I think it's important to note that the mosque did not link to site which focus specifically on Holocaust denial. It linked to religious Muslim portals, and among various articles, they also offered articles denying the Holocaust. My question, therefore, and this is mostly for my Muslim readers: Is there any religious portal out there which does not have articles denying the Holocaust and blaming Jews for all evil?

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Links on the site of the Great Mosque of Brussels, which link to Saudi Arabia, linked to negationist (ie, Holocaust denial) items, which are criminal in Belgium. They were removed Wednesday.

The site of the Islamic and Cultural Centre of Belgium displayed links to two Saudi sites, WhyMuhammad.com and Islamway, which included outright negationist and xenophobic literature. Islamway published excerpts from the book by Abdallah H. Al-Kahtany, which talks of the 'Zionist propaganda and the myth of the Holocaust'. The author claims in particular that 'it would be ridiculous to claim that such chambers were used for executing people'.

The same author, in the same negationist momentum, argues that the 'number of Jews killed during the war was 300.000; much less than the number of Muslims killed in the Jewish Holocaust in Palestine'.

Belgian law not only penalizes denying the Holocaust committed by the German National-Socialists during WWII, but also minimizing it.

This is not the first time that the website of the Great Mosque of Brussels, chaired by the Saudi Ambassador in Belgium, indirectly relays Holocaust denial. Belgian site Parlemento.com had revealed similar cases in September 2009. The site administrators had removed the offending links in November 2009, after the intervention of the Centre for Equal Opportunity. They are now back online.

At the Great Mosque they explained that the site admin, Mr. Wasani, was not there, but that he had actually ordered to remove the controversial links. They couldn't explain why the links reappeared. "By mistake, we are told, because we obviously do not endorse the things you cite."

At the Center for Equal Opportunity they say that the Great Mosque is legally responsible for the links on their site. They say they already spoke to officials at the Islamic Center last year and that the links were then removed. They do not think that the authorities at the Great Mosque deliberately and knowingly reactivated those links on their site.

On Tuesday MR deputies Corinne De Permentier and Xavier Baeselen announced they intend to question the federal ministers of the interior, justice and foreign affairs on this issue.

The links were eventually removed on Wedneday.

Source: Le Soir (French), h/t Philosemitism