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Thread ID: 4029 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2002-12-15
2002-12-15 18:25 | User Profile
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Leaders distance FSIN from anti-Semitic rant Group's ex-chief praises Holocaust
James Parker
Saskatchewan News Network
Saturday, December 14, 2002
CREDIT: StarPhoenix file photo
David Ahenakew
SASKATOON -- A respected Saskatchewan Indian leader said Friday Hitler did the right thing when he "fried" six million Jews during the Second World War.
In comments one local Jewish leader described as unfortunate, David Ahenakew, a senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN), a former chief of the organization and a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), said the Nazi leader was trying to clean up the world during the war.
"The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war," Ahenakew said in an interview.
"That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe.
"That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries."
The 68-year-old Ahenakew made his remarks after giving a 45-minute, profanity-laced address to delegates attending an FSIN conference on a new Health Canada policy requiring Indians to sign a consent form before receiving certain health services.
During his wide-ranging speech, in which he complained about bigotry in Canadian society, accused the media of creating racial conflict and continually referred to non-Indian Canadians as "immigrants", Ahenakew said he lived in Germany during the late 1950s when he was with the Canadian Army.
He said Germans told him the Jews started the Second World War.
He said Israel and the United States are about to start a third world war, a reference to the current troubles in the Middle East.
Approached afterwards to clarify his comments on Jews and the Second World War, Ahenakew said he agreed with his German friends. When asked how he could justify the Holocaust, Ahenakew said: "How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?"
Ahenakew said when he served in Egypt in 1964 he saw Jews kill people. When asked for details,.....................
2002-12-15 21:11 | User Profile
A few more comments like that, and the ADL will start talking about needing to institute "the Palestinian approach" to our indigenous peoples. ;)
Seriously, I suspect sentiments like this are widespread. That's why the fed's make sure American Indians are kept on the reservation, dependent on government handouts.
These comments no doubt will cost the tribal organizations he represents.
2002-12-17 14:00 | User Profile
A Canadian Indian it to be investigated for the remarks he made recently regarding Hitler and the Jews...
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