Top Iranian Cleric Calls Nazi Holocaust "Superstition"

There are some who claim the Holocaust did not occur. That, in spite of definitive proof, the genocide of 6 million Jews, plus gypsies, communists and homosexuals never happened. I guess Hitler, too was a myth, conjured up by the West. There was no Nazi 'Final Solution', and the Allied Forces who documented and took photos of the death camps, the mass graves and the stick thin, starving survivors also never existed. I'm not sure where these wackos think the photos and filmed proof come from, but they conveniently avoid the answers to that question because its easier, I suppose, to maintain a 'clear conscience' when it comes to their desire for the total annihilation of Israel.

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad happens to be one of the most vocal Holocaust-deniers, but there are others who think the same way in his country, and elsewhere. And now, one of the most influential Iranian clerics has publicly chosen to call it a 'superstition'. Yes, the grand poobah Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi claimed that:

'The Holocaust is nothing but superstition, but Zionists say that people of the world should be forced to accept this. Americans and Westerners are affected by newly appeared superstitions such as the Holocaust. The truth about the Holocaust is not clear, and when the researchers want to examine whether it is true or the Jews have created it to pose as victims, they jail the researchers."

A superstition? And this from a people who believe in the Hidden Imam. Right! Talk about a superstition. At least there is visible proof of the holocaust: photos and witness accounts of not only those involved, but those non-Jews who helped save so many. What proof is there of a Hidden Imam. None, what-so-ever!

If this is what comes out of the mouth of a cleric who is considered to be one of the highest authorities in Shiite Islam, then I can't begin to imagine what the thinking processes of the lower ranking ones are.

Clinging to their beliefs that the ethnic cleansing of so many Jews was a non-event makes it easier for the deniers to call for the destruction of Israel, which is something Ahmadinejad does with frequency, and is the desire of many in that region. Denying the Holocaust is as egregious as denying the ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims during the Bosnian war.

I'm not quite sure what to think of people who can blatantly deny something that occurred in history. Are they ignorant? Or hateful? Or just plain evil? Maybe all three things.