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Muslims back Holocaust website

April 14, 2009 15:58

ByNatasha Lehrer, Natasha Lehrer

2 min read

A website to educate Muslims about the Shoah has been launched with the aim of countering Holocaust denial in the Arab world.

The Aladdin Project will provide Arabic, Farsi and Turkish speakers with an accurate account of the history of the Holocaust and information on Jewish religion, history and culture.

The project was initiated by the Paris-based Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah and was enthusiastically welcomed by Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schroder and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was launched at a conference in Paris, attended by Egypt’s Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, representing President Hosni Mubarak, as well as many prominent intellectuals from the Arab and Jewish world, imams from major French mosques and French Justice Minister Rachida Dati, who is of Muslim origin.

The conference was the first time that prominent leaders from the Muslim world had joined European counterparts to honour Jewish victims of Nazi persecution and denounce Holocaust denial.