Some commentators have pointed out the absurdity of a particular form of Muslim retaliation for the cartoons: turning around and threatening to publish cartoons mocking Jews, Judaism or the Holocaust. Beyond 800-lb elephant of the Der Sturmer cartoons that already inundate Muslim media, the reaction is just bizarre. You Westerners have attacked our prophet? Well... we hate the Jews! Do they think the Quai d'Orsay is losing sleep over this?

But if you look deeply, you realize the insane logic behind this Muslim response: they appear to believe that we in the West worship the Holocaust in some manner. They worship Islam and its prophet; we worship our Jewish controllers and their Holocaust totem. If I remember correctly, this isn't the first time I've heard Islamists make this claim.

How bizarre is the political culture in that part of the world.

Heard a great clip on the radio coming back from picking up my grandson from ski class. A recording of this rant was morphed back and forth with a Hitler rant. Although the languages differ, the tone, pitch and response from the listeners were virtually indistinguishable. And, of course, everything bad was the fault of the Jews.

I've been looking around for some quotes to back up my interpretation above. Haven't yet been able to turn anything up by a Muslim source, but here's Robert Faurisson in an interview with the Tehran Times:

"For many years now I have been telling my acquaintances in the Muslim world that the Jews and the Zionists want to impose the religion of the alleged "Holocaust" of the Jews on the whole world. It is normal that Jews and Zionists should seek to foist such an imposture on us, for it is the sword and the shield of the Jews in general and of the Jewish State in particular."

Another Revisionist source, Michael A. Hoffman II's interview with Iran's Mehr News Agency entitled Holocaustianity:

Mehr News January 4, 2006: As you know, nowadays the "holocaust" has been turned in to a religion. How has this come about?

Hoffman: The US Constitution mandates a separation of church and state; that is to say, there can be no establishment of any single religion as the official creed of the US government. The Judaics managed to get around this through the "Holocaust." By pretending that the "Holocaust" is history, they turn what is actually a synagogue into a "holocaust museum."

This is the case in Washington D.C. where President Ronald Reagan--the American leader who urged Saddam Hussein to wipe out the Islamic Republic of Iran--instituted the "US Holocaust Museum" on federal property. But this "museum" does not adhere to rules of evidence and does not submit its exhibits to critical inquiry and investigation. Skepticism is not allowed because the "Holocaust" does not entail the history of World War Two, rather it is a religion, the religion of Judaism for gentiles. To honestly question or doubt the details of the gas chambers is to be a "hater" and an "anti-semite." Historical accounts can be questioned and doubted freely. Religion cannot be questioned or doubted. Therefore, the "Holocaust" is a religious cult masquerading as history. The US "Holocaust Museum" is actually a synagogue comprising a house of worship for the first state religion of the United States of America, Holocaustianity.

Nice finds. There's no question they think the Holocaust is a "sacred cow" of the west, believed for extra-intellectual reasons (since clearly, it never happened, right?).

Riiight. :) How batshit insane do you have to be to believe the Holocaust was faked?

Well, perhaps I'm about to answer my own question. I found the quote that was rolling around in my head. I should have known it was by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

There were those who created a myth about the Holocaust and insisted on it, even more than on the belief in the religion and the prophets. When a man expresses his lack of belief in God, the religion, and the prophets, they do not oppose him - but they will rise up against anyone who rejects the [claim regarding the truth] of the Holocaust...