A Timely Academic Conference

Those fun-loving mullahs in Tehran have decided on a final solution calm and academic inquiry into one of the important issues of our time: The Holocaust -- Myth or Reality? No. Really.

The official "Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting" website reports:

Isfahan, March 7 - A conference on the myth of Holocaust, entitled 'Holocause, myth or reality,' was held in Isfahan Monday attended by students and professors of the Isfahan university.

The conference was initiated by the Isfahan office of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution.

Head of the Presidential office on studying the Palestinian issue, Alireza Soltanshahi told the conference that the Holocaust myth has turned into an industry for the Zionists to gain money.

He explained that Germany had to pay compensation to Israel for the Holocaust untill 2020 while there is no documents to substantiate the claim.

Soltanshahi said the Zionist regime has tried to show that the Holocaust is real through new methods such as establishing international institutions to propaganda on it as well as giving literary prizes to people who had written about it positively.

It's good this question will finally receive serious consideration, and an authoritative resolution.

I'll bet they wouldn't really need to have this conference if they had an atomic bomb or two.

The staff here at G&S has been inspired by this news to consider sponsoring similar academic inquiries, all in the interest of international peace and brotherhood, and in order to lay to rest prejudiced or ignorant notions. Our first idea was this:

"Islam, The Religion of Peace: Myth or Reality?"

Then we thought, why not go right to the root of the matter:

"Mohammed: Prophet of God, or Sun-Addled Nut-Ball?"

But management agreed that either conference would be provocative and lead to all sorts of Jews, Baptists and Republicans rioting, burning, and blowing themselves up. And that would be counterproductive, wouldn't it?