Zeal For Truth

French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was sentenced for WWII remarks. He was found guilty of denying a crime against humanity and complicity in condoning war crimes, over the remarks made in an interview with a far-right magazine in 2005. Here is what Le Pen said:

In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses — inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres. …If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn’t have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.

For that, he received a three-month suspended jail sentence and a 10,000 Euro fine. Look, I don’t like a holocaust denier as much as the next person, but jail and fines for people who happen to take a different view of history than the establishment? This is insane.

Religion
A transcript of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s interview about Sharia law (This has caused an uproar). Read it for yourself to see if it’s justified.

More on the Archbishop from Christopher Hitchens…

Christianity Today reports that Iowa State University has denied an assistant professor tenure because he believes in intelligent design.

Police and Military
Boston Police launch a free service to search people’s house for guns, without warrants naturally.

Codepink blocking the entrance to a Marine recruitment office.

Miscellaneous
That guy that killed his wife as an assisted suicide? Yea, looks a lot more like murder now.

This 90-second history of the middle east is very interesting…