AUTO-DA-FÉ AGAINST MODERN-DAY HERETIC

Religionists condemn
Holocaust® dissenter

A Letter from the Religion Department Faculty
The Daily Northwestern Monday, 13 February 2006

Unable to answer the arguments of Arthur Butz concerning the "Hoax of the 20th Century"* with coherent, well-reasoned counter-argument, members of the Religious Faculty at Northwestern University, at the behest of Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg, have condemned the controversial professor in the following bull published in the student newspaper— ironically on the anniversary of the very real DRESDEN Holocaust of 1945:

"Last week, Arthur Butz, a professor at our university, once again asserted the odious lie that the murder of six million Jews in Europe did not happen. His action brings disgrace to Northwestern.

"Our university president, Henry Bienen, has issued a powerful denunciation of Butz's words and deeds while rightfully making it clear that the administration must support the legal processes of academic freedom and tenure. It is unfortunate that Butz abuses the institution of tenure so crucal to the pursuit of knowledge. His words damage scholars throughout this country.

"While this is not the first time Butz has spread his lies, we think that today's context is significantly altered. He offers his remarks to support recent comments by the President of Iran, whose regime displays increasing extremism even as he publicly advocates "wiping out" the State of Israel. Our academic disciplines remind us of the violent forces people like Butz can unleash, for we know the power that hateful speech can have.

"As scholars we must denounce faked data in every context where it surfaces, whether in a lab making false claims about cloning or in a website making counterfeit pronouncements about history. This is not a matter of a professor with unpopular opinions; this is a matter of a professor who has promoted a fraud and allied himself with forces of hate.

"As members of Northwestern's faculty, we rise to say clearly: Arthur Butz is a moral and intellectual failure. He is not a scholar, and we do not regard him as a colleague. We look forward to the day when he leaves the university and stops debasing its name."

Dr. Butz's 369-page, illustrated classic The Hoax of the Twentieth Century is available for $16 postage paid from:

NS Publications
PO Box 188
Wyandotte MI 48192

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