The following are excerpts from an interview with Saudi political science
professor Ahmad bin Rashed bin Said, which aired on Al-Ikhbariya TV on
November 13, 2005.

For more on professor Ahmad bin Rashed bin Said, see:

MEMRI TV Clip No. 254 "Saudi Professor Ahmad bin Rashed Criticizes Arab
Media for Lack of Support of Suicide Bombers (Archival)"
http://memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=254 .

MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 860 "MEMRI TV Monitor Project - Special Coverage
of the Saudi Counter-Terrorism Conference and Jihad on Saudi TV,"
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP86005

*Clip No. 926 - Saudi Professor Ahmad bin Rashed bin Said on U.N. Resolution
to Commemorate the Holocaust: U.N. Resolutions Are Not Sacred

We must reject this resolution. We must not adopt it, and we must say that
more than one holocaust have been committed against our peoples, even in
modern times - if we decide to put ancient times behind us. We must ask, in
all innocence: 300,000 people were killed in Bosnia - is this not a
holocaust? Many massacres were committed throughout history, but they say...
Do you know what they say? They say that the Holocaust is unique, unequaled,
and can never happen again, and cannot be compared to any other massacre in
history. One Jewish rabbi even said: [in English] "Holocaust can never be
over." They want to inflate it with a lot of propaganda and pain.

If the U.N. wants to talk about the Holocaust, or about massacres... This is
not the role of the United Nations. Let the U.N. talk about the Crusades,
about the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by the European Crusaders
throughout the Islamic world. Let the U.N. discuss the massacres committed
against the Muslims in Andalusia, in Muslim Spain. Let it discuss many
things. It is not for the U.N. to discuss history. Let it talk about
reality, about avian flu, International Tree Day, about the international
day of action against AIDS... That sort of thing. But when the U.N.
discusses the Holocaust, that is part of the policy of force, the policy of
hegemony, and of imposing facts on the ground.

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