Tikkun: Holocaust Denial Undermines Islam

Sh Hamza Yusuf on how holocaust denial undermines Islam. A lot of Muslims you mention holocaust to either would deny the extent of it, would either link it to the Israel=Palestine issue ( you can link it but you should not just directly link it without acknowledging the pain of the holocaust) or would say that "There have been other holocausts of other communities as well...Why is this overplayed so much"...I feel that you cant be talking about apples and oranges at the same time. YOu have to first acknowledge that the holocaust was a terrible thing. Sh Hamza Yusuf's article talks about the transformation of information and sees more Muslim sensitivity towards the holocaust a starting point for a discussion which could lead to more fruitful discussions on the more controversial issues:

Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature and basis of knowledge. How do we know things? It also studies the veracity of “truth.” How do we know the difference between belief, knowledge, opinion, fact, reality and fantasy? The Greek philosopher, Carneades, believed that knowledge of reality, of what is true or false, is impossible, that nothing can be known with certainty; his philosophy is known as skepticism. It does not reject belief altogether; Carneades felt that our belief about any given matter should be subjected to intense scrutiny and then, using a scale of probability, we should accept or reject the likelihood of its truth or falsehood. But we must make no absolute claims to it. Another Greek skeptic, Cratylus, however, was more radical in his approach and believed that nothing could be known at all, and thus no statements could convey anything true or meaningful. He finally gave up talking altogether. READ ON