Blair's office: No plans to change British Holocaust Day

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Blair's office: No plans to change British Holocaust Day
Haaretz Service and AP
September 12, 2005

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said Monday it had no plans to rename Britain's Holocaust Day, despite calls from Muslim groups to make the annual memorial more inclusive.

The proposal by a committee of Muslim leaders advising the government as it seeks to combat Islamic extremism want to replace Holocaust Memorial Day with a Genocide Day that would include recognition of Muslim deaths in the West Bank and Gaza, Chechnya and Bosnia, according to the British paper the Sunday Times.

A Home Office spokesman said that it would consider the proposals but said it regarded the Holocaust as a "defining tragedy in European history," according to the Times.

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[Maple]

1. Blair had no plans

to invade Iraq either.

[still_one]

5. interesting point, and Blair has lost all credibility, but I don't think h

will go back on this one, and he shouldn't

This should have nothing to do with politics

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2. Tony Blair: SuperSemite

[Nihil]

3. Probably has to get permission from Hallmark cards first

They'd have to scrap their current range of "Happy Holocaust Day" and
create a brand new set of "In Fond Rememberance of Global Genocide".

You know Tony wouldn't want to upset any money-making corporations now
don't you?

[still_one]

4. good, he shouldn't

the groups pushing him to do so were holocaust deniers

Remember the holocaust happened in Europe

but the apathy was worldwide