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BOSNIAN MUSLIM PAPER DENIES EXTERMINATION OF JEWS DURING WWII
BBC Monitoring International Reports - January 12, 2005

Excerpt from article by columnist Fatmir Alispahic published in the 1 January 2005 issue of the Sarajevo-based Islamic fortnightly Saff: "Fight for survival, advertisement for tragedy"; subheadings and punctuation as published.

History is but a text the writing of which depends on the political power factor. Whoever does not have power does not have a recognized history either. If we know who wrote a history, we will also know what that history wants. It is an illusion to believe that history writes itself seeking to offer a fair account of events. History is a product with a political mission. Can the Bosnian tragedy be translated into a binding historical text? For the time being, no. Political, and thus historical, power is in the hands of those forces that are interested in having the Bosnian tragedy forgotten.

In Bosniak politics, there is no understanding at all of the importance of historical testimony, which in a multimedia reality is most effectively expressed through a film script. In addition, Bosniak politics does not understand history at all as a product with advertising potential in terms of politics and the future.

This text will, therefore, illustrate doubts regarding the authenticity of the Holocaust. Given that Jews, through the Holocaust media industry, chiefly through film, keep the world under a delusion regarding their suffering in order to amnesty Zionist imperialism and crimes, a historical text imposes itself as the foundation of the project. (Passage omitted)

Holocaust a tourist attraction

For years now, attempts have been made in the West to establish a scholarly alternative to the product on Jewish suffering in the WWII. Still, nothing of this research is reaching us. Understandably so, because the political power held by Jews does not allow for the "truth" on the Holocaust to be tampered with. The scholars who have sought to confront the official version with facts have been brutally persecuted.

(Passage omitted: Alispahic mentions Robert Faurrisson and Ernest Zundel as scholars persecuted on these grounds)

Still, some arguments have found their way through this media fog and shed a completely different light on the texts based on which we have unreservedly believed to date that Hitler had killed six million Jews. For example, these authors quote a text by Simon Wiesenthal from the journal Books and Bookmen (April 1975), which claims that there had been no death camps on German soil and that mass gassings had taken place only in Poland. They indicate that "gas chambers" had been built for tourists who visit Auschwitz. The US expert Fred Leuchter subjected samples from walls of these "gas chambers" to analysis and found no chemical traces of gases used for mass execution. He believes that "Auschwitz is a false exhibition and a shaky tourist trap".

(Passage omitted: Alispahic goes on to list facts ostensibly proving that no mass executions took place: cremation takes two hours and not ten minutes as official history would have it; no ash depot was found, and six million cremated Jews would have left at least "a slag heap"; that only four million Jews were in the Nazi-controlled territory, two million of whom fled to Russia; that only 300,000 Jews died, as a result of typhoid and exhaustion in concentration camps; that Zionists and Nazis agreed on the resettlement of Jews from Germany with a view to establishing Israel, which was in the interest of both sides)

Vukovar in a US drama

For a historical and media treatment of the wars in former Yugoslavia, it is absolutely inessential who suffered how much, who is the aggressor and who the victim. It is only important who will have more intelligence and inventiveness to transform their "righteous" story into as many good quality media expressions as possible. Bosniaks are, undeniably, the greatest victims, but Serbs and Croats have more films about their alleged suffering. They have churned out thousands of books, translated them into world languages, sent them to plenty of addresses, because they understand that the political and legal treatment of the war period depends on this "body of evidence". Croats have gone the furthest here, managing to get the international film elite to shoot a film about Vukovar, where the message is not explicit but wrapped in a sugary American family drama.

(Passage omitted: Alispahic outlines the plot of "Harrison's Flowers", a film about an American photographer and his wife, set in Vukovar)

To simplify it: if it is our interest to one day get a film about Srebrenica, to be watched by millions, then the film must not be ours, and then the story must be told from the perspective of an American "ubermensch", whose "suffering" is the only (suffering that is) valid in the media arena of this civilization.

History is a product

The only Bosniak who has understood the necessity to have the Bosnian tragedy perceived from an American perspective is Muhamed Sacirbey (former Bosnian ambassador to the UN, recently released on bail from US detention, where he was held on charges of embezzlement of Bosnian state funds), who at some point lobbied for a US director to make a film about Bosnia. (Passage omitted)

These films ("Harrison's Flowers" and Roman Polanski's "The Pianist") may inspire our ambition. We may realize that a film script is the most powerful weapon today in establishing a historical truth. For, we do not exist without history. And history is but a text... a text produced as any other product.

Source: Saff, Sarajevo, in Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian 1 Jan 05

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