"One can wonder endlessly about the usefulness of such legislation, but from the moment it was adopted, any setback, any complacency is the ignominy. It is not just an insult to the Jewish community, but an irreparable injury to the necessary memory of the people. "
La Libre Belgique ( Blame Napoleon an opinion Marc Uyttendaele columnist). Excerpts:
"But the worst is elsewhere. At a time when intercultural Audience intend to place the religion in the heart of the organization of society and celebrate the particularities, they propose to clear in the law to punish Holocaust denial, reference to the Holocaust and thus to deny that s' acts of a particular moment, unique in modern history. One can wonder endlessly about the usefulness of such legislation, but from the moment it was adopted, any setback, any complacency is the ignominy. It is not just an insult to the Jewish community, but a irreparable injury to the necessary memory of peoples.
Napoleon errors can lead to trivializing Hitler. Consider now that the Holocaust is a horror among others, is to neglect so unbearable that is even the depths of European humanism and the base of its historical memory. The memory of the Holocaust, continues to evoke what was the key moment in the recent history of humanity are essential to maintain the spirit of resistance. Resistance against all forms of totalitarianism, against all discriminations cons and all the stigma that too often in history people have drawn their source in exactly the religious. But the only guarantee that it does not become harmful, do not infringe the freedom of thought of each and equality, especially between men and women, is to circumscribe the freedom of conscience each and in the sphere of intimacy. Yet it is precisely the opposite is suggested by these sad Assize.
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