Is anything a historical taboo?

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is holding a two day conference about the Holocaust. A spokesman said the conference would ask two questions:

“The first question to be posed is: Did the Holocaust actually happen or not? And the second one is: If it did happen, what was the scale of it?”

The conference is partly a response to governments defending the printing of Danish cartoons that offended Muslims under the principle of free speech.


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