A spokesman of Egyptâs Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood retracted yesterday a remark made earlier by the groupâs top leader that the Holocaust was a âmyth.â In his weekly article posted Thursday on the groupâs website, the groupâs leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef had described the holocaust as a âmyth.â âAmerican democracy is a democracy (that endorses) a single perspective and attacks anyone who disagrees with the vision of the sons of Zion concerning the myth of the Holocaust,â Akef wrote in echoing similar controversial remarks recently made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But Essam El-Eriane, a Brotherhood spokesman, yesterday retracted the remark, adding that it was âonly a minor part of Akefâs article.â El-Eriane told Deutsche-Presse Agentur that the use of the word myth was âinappropriate.â âThe Holocaust happened to the Jews like it happened to other groups and we canât deny that,â El-Eriane said.
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