With quite a delay, on January 4, 2006 I was informed that Ahmed Rami had achieved an important historic victory on November 10, 2005 in Sweden. This victory is of great significance when one recalls that some years ago, Ahmed Rami was sentenced to prison by the Swedish judicial system for his revisionist opinions. When confined to a first prison, he there developed his ideas with great success to prisoners and guards to such extent that authorities transferred him to another smaller prison, where the result was the same. With his origin in the Moroccan Atlas, Ahmed Rami, who does not roar but whose voice is as soft as persuasive, has, in my opinion, the courage that one gives a lion.

Account in three points as follows:

1) On November 10, 2005 a debate on Radio Islam and Ahmed Rami took place in the Swedish Parliament. The Jewish members of Parliament had criticized the Swedish government for having "abdicated" before Ahmed Rami’s anti-Jewish media activities in Sweden. Sweden’s Minister of the Interior and of Justice, Thomas Bodstrom, gave them the following answer in a speech in Parliament and on the government’s behalf: "(In a state governed by law) it is not up to me or the members of Parliament to prosecute or judge Ahmed Rami. It is the public prosecutor’s competence. But the latter has not been able to find any proof that Ahmed Rami has committed a crime against Swedish law." The minister added: "Swedish law does not forbid the questioning or the denying of the Holocaust."

2) Another extract from Minister Thomas Bodstrom’s speech:

"It is, for example, a matter of whether it should be forbidden to maintain that the Holocaust did not take place. We have come to a complete agreement in Sweden that this is something we should not forbid. If a person comes to another opinion, he can be free to state this in this context. We have the possibility to exert an influence here in Parliament and introduce a motion but, of course, also influence the work that is done in European Union. So far we have seen a unity in this. I am of the opinion that it is rather wise to meet such completely erroneous statements with a good discussion. One does not need to be the least afraid of losing such a discussion. I very much doubt that it needs to be proved in a criminal case in Sweden that the Holocaust has taken place or not when it actually is not criminal to contend the one or the other."

3) Ahmed Rami tells us that this debate took place in Parliament due to a great number of Jewish complaints to judicial Swedish authorities- demanding to have Ahmed Rami judged by a Swedish court of law or by a public international court. This demand had been expressed in Morocco by Robert Assaraf, responsible to the Moroccan Jewish community. In an article published by Jeune Afrique, Assaraf had written that In Radio Islam and during a debate in Al-Jazeera, "Ahmed Rami dared demand for the Moroccans the same rights as the rights that the Jews in Morocco have". Five years ago, the same Robert Assaraf had the impudence to declare: "Wouldn’t it be necessary today to mobilize Morocco’s Jews, who are dispersed throughout the world, in order to initiate a public trial against Ahmed Rami?" ("Morocco: from Islamism to anti-Semitism, "Jeune Afrique, March 7-13, 2000).

Islamism, Ahmed Rami claims, is the only political movement that the Jews cannot buy, nor infiltrate, nor crush. In Morocco, the Jews possess immense privileges from the present regime which they control totally. In consequence these privileged fear those who want to let the regime be overthrown to replace it with a democratic regime which the Moroccan people would control.

"Sweden, where famous Ahmed Rami, of Radio Islam, works, is not in arrears. The general atmosphere can be summarized through an astounding article by Katarina Mazetti in Ordfront Magasin where one can read: "Maybe it’s time to stop to make efforts to send our young Swedes to Auschwitz so that they learn the consequences of racism and ethnic cleansing. Maybe we should rather invite them, at Christmas, to go to Bethlehem, so that they can see what the grandchildren of the victims of Auschwitz do when they devote themselves to ethnic clearing."