EU lawmakers want to ban Ahmadinejad from World Cup - for questioning the Holocaust?

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

To our friends around the world -

Ever more, the so-called "Holocaust" defines the Great Divide between 
those who realize they have been down the primrose path - and those 
who fix a crafty eye on crooks in pin-striped suits. 

Now wouldn't it be nice if we could have a big, united demonstration 
at World Cup events asking why Holocaust skeptics need to be 
kidnapped with the help of Zionist-beholden Western countries' 
embassies and dragged to Germany to be locked up in prison? 

The summary below was sent to me without a URL.  If you know where it 
came from, speak up so I can place it on the Zundelsite for other 
folks to ponder.

Ingrid

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EU lawmakers want to ban Ahmadinejad from World Cup

By News Agencies

A group of European Parliament members is seeking an indefinite EU 
travel ban on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has called 
for Israel to be destroyed and questioned the Holocaust.

A group of 75 lawmakers from all major political groups in the EU 
assembly signed a petition, which was submitted Thursday to EU 
president Austria and FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, 
asking them to prevent Ahmadinejad from traveling to Germany to watch 
his team play in the June 9-July 9 World Cup and banning him from 
traveling to any of the other 24 EU member states.

"Ahmedinejad's likely visit to Europe would send a wrong signal to 
the Europeans and the international community and in particular to 
the suppressed people of Iran," the petition said.

The lawmakers say Ahmadinejad must renounce statements doubting the 
Holocaust happened and calling for the destruction of Israel, and 
insisted Tehran comply with international demands to curb nuclear 
activities.

"There's nothing to stop the EU member states, individually or 
collectively, issuing a declaration that he will not be granted a 
visa and will not be able to come to any of the member states," 
British Conservative Charles Tannock said.

Tannock said the EU had issued visa bans on Zimbabwean President 
Robert Mugabe and Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko to protest against 
suspected human rights abuses in their countries.

"There is precedent for this and there's no reason why it cannot be 
extended to President Ahmadinejad," he said, urging EU leaders to 
consider such a step at a summit in mid-June.

The Council of EU Ministers declared a travel ban on Lukashenko and 
30 other top Belarusian officials following the March presidential 
elections in the ex-Soviet country which the EU considered rigged.

Only EU member states can declare a travel ban, which is unlikely 
because world powers, including Britain, France and Germany, are 
currently debating how to resolve the Iran nuclear crisis.

"We do not wish the Iranian president to come to Europe for very 
clear reasons - his attacks on Israel, his denials concerning the 
Holocaust," said Jana Hybaskova, member of the European People's 
Party, the biggest group in the European Parliament.

"What we want is not a short term solution, we want the European 
Council to deal with the issue like it dealt with Lukashenko."

Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned Israel's right to exist, said 
the country should be wiped off the map and called the Holocaust a 
'myth.'

Iran has qualified for the World Cup in Germany and Ahmadinejad was 
reportedly considering going to Germany to cheer on his team, but 
Hybaskova said the Iranian embassy in Brussels had informed her he 
was unlikely to go.
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