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  Negationism
Negationism is not necessarily a form of revisionism, which originally derives from certain socialists, such as Karl Kautsky[?] and Eduard Bernstein[?] who wanted to "revise" the fundamental principles of Marxism.
Ultra-Left Negationism was a political current including such people as Pierre Guillaume[?] (who was involved in the bookshop La Vielle Taupe during the 1960s), La Guerre Sociale[?], Jeune Taupe[?] and Revolution Sociale[?] were all Ultra-left negationists.
It is sometimes argued that New World Negationism remains the official policy of the United States and British governments.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Negationism.html   (559 words)

  
 Historical Revisionism (negationism) Encyclopedia Article @ Glanced.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In some countries historical revisionism (negationism) of certain historical events is a criminal offense.
Negationism Act), France (1990 Loi Gayssot), Germany, Lithuania, Poland and Switzerland (article 261bis of the Penal Code)-- have passed laws which make denial of the Holocaust a criminal offense punishable by prison sentence.
Crypto-revisionism is a derogatory term used to describe the act of engaging in negationism for primarily political purposes.
www.glanced.org /encyclopedia/Historical_revisionism_(negationism)   (3574 words)

  
 Negationism
It is a type of historical revisionism, developed following the Second World War, with the claim that Holocaust denial was a re-examination of the facts concerning the death camps and final solution of the Nazi regime.
Ultra-Left Negationism was a political current including such people as Pierre Guillaume (who was involved in the bookshop La Vieille Taupe during the 1960s); La Guerre Sociale, Jeune Taupe and Revolution Sociale were all Ultra-left negationists.
They claim that this booklet was available at La Vieille Taupe in the sixties, and that by the eighties La Vielle Taupe had become a major source of holocaust denial material.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/n/ne/negationism.html   (574 words)

  
 Negationism in India : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The political context of the frist attempts at negationism was chiefly the attempt of the independence movement, led by the Indian National Congress, to eliminate all factors of disunity between Hindus and Muslims.
A second factor in the genesis of negationism was the penetration of Western ideas among a part of the Muslim elite, and especially the (in Europe newly emerged) positive valuation of tolerance.
Another trick which a student of Holocaust negationism will readily recognize in the pro-Babri campaign of the Indian negationists, is that truly daring form of amnipulation: selectively quoting an authority to make him say the opposite of his own considered opinion.
la.indymedia.org /news/2002/12/25095.php   (9062 words)

  
 Historical revisionism (negationism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Negationism relies on a number of techniques such as logical fallacies and appeal to fear.
Negationism can be found in literature, for example Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and is used by hate groups on the Internet.
The term "crypto" is intended to refer to the use of obscure, little-known (or misunderstood) reasoning and overblown statements in order to hide the true intent behind the author's actions (in the same sense that cryptography is used to hide a secret message from prying eyes).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Negationism   (4327 words)

  
 Rewriting Indian History - Francios Gautier
In his foreword to the book of the same title, Koenraad explains that negationism, which means in this context "the denial of historical crimes against humanity", is not a new phenomenon.
In modern history, the massacre by the Turks of 1,5 millions Armenians, or that of the 6 million Jews by the Nazis, the several millions of Russians by Stalin, or again the 1 million Tibetans by the Chinese communists, are historical facts which have all been denied by their perpetrators...
Negationism means that this whole aspect of Indian history has been totally erased, not only from history books, but also from the memory, from the consciousness of Indian people.
www.geocities.com /dipalsarvesh/5.html   (2762 words)

  
 LISTSERV 14.4
Dear Indology-netters, The first three chapters of the book "Negationism in India: Cocealing the record of Islam" are available for distribution on the Internet, with the permission of the publishers, Voice of India.
Negationism usually means the denial of the Nazi genocide of the Jews and Gypsies in World War 2.
A section of the Indian intelligentsia is still trying to erase from the Hindus' memory the history of their persecution by the swordsmen of Islam.
listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9503&L=indology&P=14045   (680 words)

  
 Negationism In India - Chapter Two - Negationism In India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The negationism regarding the Nazi crimes has been the object of much public discussion.
Their Islam negationism is by far not their first systematic falsification of a chapter of history.
In this case, the more circumspect form of negationism is at work: keeping the inconvenient facts out of the readers' view, and manipulating the terminology.
www.bharatvani.org /books/negaind/ch2.htm   (16130 words)

  
 Atheism
The first is called “Negationism.” It is found in a few eastern philosophies and religions.
The reason is that Negationism does not have the elements needed to get us to knowledge.
Negationism doesn’t have the elements needed to get to knowledge, it also has the added problem that there is no place it can go to get the needed elements.
www.home.earthlink.net /~gbl111/atheism1.htm   (2956 words)

  
 Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Negationism in India - Concealing the Record of Islam is a book by Koenraad Elst published in 1992.
Elst also remarks that Negationism of the Holocaust is not accepted in the West, and negationists are often prosecuted in some countries.
Negationism and the Muslim conquests - Francois Gautier
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Negationism_in_India_-_Concealing_the_Record_of_Islam   (767 words)

  
 Negationism In America
"Negationism," the denial or suppression of facts, is present in most societies/nations.
The culture of negationism runs so deep in America that people have a tendency to deny or at least to downplay their mistakes.
The recent corporate disasters that have seen at least two giants go under and a third having had to admit that the profits were inflated by a couple of billion dollars is another fallout of the culture of negationism in America.
www.rense.com /general26/neg.htm   (1007 words)

  
 DenialACTAversionB2
In other words, Holocaust denial in the region ranges from sheer emulation of negationism elsewhere in the world to regional-specific forms of collective defense of national "historic memory" and to merely banal, indeed sometime cynical, attempts at the utilitarian exploitation of an immediate political context.
Deflective negationism is a specific form of the more general syndrome of "externalization of guilt"—a phenomenon with deep social and psychological roots, which crosses national boundaries.
Deflective negationism is also embraced in Hungary by the radical return Hungarian Justice and Life Party (MIÉP), which has, for all practical purposes, become an ally of FIDESZ after the 1998 parliamentary elections.
sicsa.huji.ac.il /shafir19.htm   (9394 words)

  
 La question de l'Etat
The second reason is that this article was based on one written by Gilles Dauvé, and this has been used to help justify false allegations that he also supported Faurisson and his ideas.
« La Question de l'Etat » is unmarked by either negationism, or by the misogyny evident in the loathsome « The Misery of Feminism », which appeared in the same issue of La Guerre Sociale.
Dauvé's more recent views on the ultra-lefts involvement with Faurisson and negationism can be found here and also here.
www.geocities.com /~johngray/questat.htm   (1300 words)

  
 Selective Negationism of The Holocaust in East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Romanian champions of selective negationism are not (as one might have expected) semi-educated marginals.
Ion Coja, the second emblematic figure of Romanian selective negationism, has traveled through many political parties, and at one point was even close to being designated a presidential candidate for the 1996 elections (see Shafir, 1996).
The signatories then challenged those who hold a different view to "produce evidence" and went on to say that they "respectfully ask" that where such evidence has been produced in the past and challenged, it should be reinforced with new proof.
www.bukovinajewsworldunion.org /Schafir.capitol.htm   (2959 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Negationism In India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Its chapter on the Sultanate period (which was much more bloody than even the Moghul period) does not mention any persecutions and massacres of Hindus by Muslims, except that Firuz Shah Tughlaq "made largely unsuccessful attempts to convert his Hindu subjects and sometimes persecuted them".
While nobody claims that Hinduism is without faults, or that Hindu society has never brought forth fanatical individuals,it is a plain lie that Hinduism has record of fanaticism similar (however remotely) to that of the three world-conquerors: Christianity, Islam and Mrxism.
India has its own full-fledged brand of negationism: a movement to deny the large-scale and long-term crimes against humanity committed by Islam.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/01/49764.html   (20490 words)

  
 Islam Watch - "Negationism and the Muslim Conquests" by R Narayan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In "Communalism and the writing of Indian history", Romila Thapar, Harbans Mukhia and Bipan Chandra, professors at the JNU in New Delhi, the Mecca of secularism and negationism in India, denied the Muslim genocide by replacing it instead with a conflict of classes.
It is sad that Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress perpetuated that brand of negationism.
And in India, Kashmir and Ayodhya are reminders that the Moghol cry for the house of Islam in India is not yet over, as Kargil has just shown.
www.islam-watch.org /RNarayan/IndiaNegationism1.htm   (2739 words)

  
 STRUGGLE IS OVER HISTORY
This is what brought together this seemingly ‘modern’ and 'Westernized' Leftist intellectuals and right wing Islamists with their roots firmly in Medieval history and tradition.
Negationism In India: Concealing the Record of Islam.
In this the culprit is Jihad Negationism, and the suspicion and hatred that it breeds.
members.tripod.com /ayodhya2000/struggle_is_over_history1.htm   (1900 words)

  
 negationism - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
B.K. Introduction Negationism in France: The Past and Present of...in France as le negationnisme -- "negationism," or the denial of the Holocaust.
The fact is that there is a long tradition in France of `negationism, the rejection of the accepted version of Hitlers Final Solution, and it is necessary to consider this tradition.
France is also the spiritual home of Negationism, a kind of anti-Semitism with footnotes, which denies that Jews were ever exterminated in the camps.
www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=negationism   (897 words)

  
 historical_revisionism_(negationism)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In some countries historical revisionism (negationism) of certain historical events is a criminal offence.
Historical revisionism can be used as a label to describe the views of self-taught historians who publish articles that deliberately misrepresent and manipulate historical evidence.
If at all any violence had occurred, it was as a matter of justified class struggle by the progressive forces against the reactionary forces, meaning the feudal Hindu upper castes.
www.ratemycats.com /wiki/?title=Historical_revisionism_(negationism)   (3907 words)

  
 Congress-sponsored Negationism
With fire and sword, with crow-bars and axes, they carried on day after day their work of destruction.
"Negationism" means the denial of historical crimes against humanity.
Congress-sponsored negationism in India means concealing this known historical record of Islam in India.
www.indiacause.com /redirect.aspx?redirect=/columns/OL_060609.htm   (1503 words)

  
 Review of Fabrication d'un antisémite
Paul Rassinier invented Holocaust denial, or "negationism," as it is known in the France of his birth.
Fresco proceeds like an epidemiologist, tracing a plague back to the first reported case, as if understanding how it started is the most critical fact, as if, arrested at the point of mutation, the new virus could never have spread.
But no matter how important, the origins are not, as she implies in justifying her project, the only interesting aspect of negationism.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewas9.htm   (2553 words)

  
 FACTS ABOUT THE AYODHYA DISPUTE
This is what Elst has called Negationism in his remarkable book Negationism In India: Concealing the Record of Islam.
In this the culprit is Jihad Negationism, and the suspicion and hatred which it breeds.
We shall see later that until the Secularists showed them the value of it, the Muslims never used Negationism; far from it, they took great pride in their record of vandalization of Hindu sacred places.
www.caribbeanhindu.net /Ayodhya_Facts.htm   (9332 words)

  
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The book is a synthesis of his two article: "Lost and Found: The Ayodhya Evidence" and "The Secularists and the Ayodhya Excavations Report", written during 2003.
Negationism in Europe usually means the denial of the Nazi genocide on the Jews and Gypsies in World War II.
A section of the Indian intelligentsia is trying to erase from the Hindus memory the history of their persecution by the swordsmen of Islam.
www.indiaclub.com /shop/AuthorSelect.asp?Author=Koenraad+Elst   (926 words)

  
 Sify.com - Stay in touch through Sify connect. Email, messenger, chat,Discussions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He has published in Dutch about language policy issues, contemporary politics, history of science and Oriental Philosophies; in English about the Ayodhya Issue, and about the General Religio-political Situation in India.
It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within."
Negationism in India - part 3 by brahman1 (19:01:2006 09:45) - 1 replie(s)
sify.com /connect/discussions_lang/viewpostsflat.php?f=13446346&parentid=0&pid=28682   (796 words)

  
 The Romanian Jewish Community
It is COUNTRY-SPECIFIC OUTRIGHT NEGATIONISM -- in other words, it does not deny the Holocaust as having taken place ELSEWHERE but excludes ANY participation by members of one's own nation in its perpetration.
He was forced to resign from the latter position after the publication, at his own initiative and under the institute's auspices, of a venomous, racist, and particularly anti-Semitic book by a fellow PRM deputy (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 23, 24, and 28 August 2001 and Mediafax, 11 September 2001).
The assassination of historian Nicolae Iorga in those days was not committed by the Iron Guard either; it was rather ordered by the KGB, which had infiltrated the movement.
www.romanianjewish.org /en/memorie_si_luciditate_08.html   (2562 words)

  
 Other Voices 2.1 (February 2000), Ilana M. Blumberg "Against Denial"
Seeking to understand the causes for this denial—but, more specifically, trying to decipher the surprising union of French radical leftists with the right-wing deniers of the genocide—Finkielkraut returns to the infamous Dreyfus trial at the turn of the century to analyze the political choices of the left.
Conducting his historical inquiry less as a continuous survey of the century than as an accretion of symbolic case studies, Finkielkraut offers what can only be called a Marxist analysis of negationism that indicts the Marxist vision of history.
The revolution will begin once the conditions of the working class jump into focus, and these conditions can become the primary focus only when the one atrocity that claims to be worse is finally made to disappear.
www.othervoices.org /2.1/blumberg/finkielkraut.html   (1198 words)

  
 Marxists, Karl Marx and the Sanatan Hindu Dharma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The negationism has had the most evil influence on the uninitiated who don't know enough about various aspects of the Hindu culture.
Marxist historians at JNU (Bipan Chandra/ Irfan Habib/ Romila Thapar) etc. and etc. have time and again highlighted the bad aspects of the Hindu society, in their " spirited " attempts to defame and malign Hindu culture/ systems.
What I found missing was that Elst does not furnish any references, and this could allow one to dismiss his ideas as speculative.
www.hindunet.org /srh_home/1996_3/msg00172.html   (377 words)

  
 [BBC News]Four die in Afghan cartoon riot - e-pec.info
Their are limitations in this freedom which are written in our laws (negationism, promoting violence,...).
The law against negationism is in essence the same as saying 'you can't offend God' in my view though, we are not allowed to offend certain people.
I think this law originated as a way of dealing with our past, because everyone feels what happened in WW2 should never be allowed to happen again and should not be forgotten.
e-pec.info /forum/index.php?showtopic=1197   (1899 words)

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