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writes from Sweden, on
Rami’s stupid prank backfires
I was reading your article by Bjorn Hanssen about the 1992 “anti-Zionist
Conference” and I remembered an interview of Ahmed
Rami in the Swedish newspaper
Göteborgs-posten. This interview was part of a series of articles about different revisionist, among them yourself.* The date of the Rami interview is April 8, 2000.
This is a translation of part of the Rami interview about the Conference entitled “He has his own view of history.
Ahmed Rami spreads revisionism among muslims” (original
Swedish below):
Rami laughs when he tells about how he then fooled the
mass media, the politicians and the police. We are
sitting in the home of one of Ahmed Rami’s friends, in a
house near to the Bromma church, because he doesn’t want
to show us his office.I told a friend, from Algeria, that I want to see if
Säpo [The Swedish Secret Police] really is informed. I picked up the phone and said to TT
[Tidningarna Telegrambyrå, a Swedish news agency] that I was going to organize an anti-Zionist world conference. And there was a great debate. Säpo started to suspect that the conference would be held in a boat. Others thought that it would be held in the
Stockholm Globe Arena [a well known building in
Stockholm].Israel sent a letter of protest to the
Swedish government to stop the conference. The chief of
Säpo and the prime minister made statements. So much uproar about a joke!The funny thing is that the Algerian guy phoned me up.
He asked why I was pulling his leg. I’m not, I said. But you told me it was only a joke. Yes, but it is only a joke. No, it’s on the TV, radio and the newspapers. It is true, he said.This spring the joke has been news again. One of the parts in the book about the Holocaust deniers that has made the author David Irving sue Deborah
Lipstadt and Penguin books for libel speaks about
Rami’s joke.
I hope the translation is good enough, it’s quite different reading English and writing in it. As this story is quite different from the one on your website, I thought it would be interesting.
H E [name known to this website] Sweden
* The links are as follows:
- Ahmed Rami: http://www.gp.se/special/fornekarna/art8.shtml
- David Irving: http://www.gp.se/special/fornekarna/art7.shtml