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Nobel Prize Winner, Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Attacked
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| MisterOpus1 |
Very sad. Glad he's okay, though:
| quote: | Nobel prizewinner, author attacked at S.F. hotel
Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 9, 2007
Elie Wiesel, a renowned Holocaust author and Nobel Peace ...
(02-09) 13:37 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Elie Wiesel, the renowned Holocaust author and Nobel Peace Prize winner, was attacked and dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator last week, possibly by a Holocaust denier who claims to have stalked Wiesel for weeks, police said.
Wiesel, 78, was at the Argent Hotel Feb. 1 for a conference on "Facing Violence: Justice, Religion and Conflict Resolution" when he was confronted in an elevator by a man insisting that he wanted to interview the author, according to San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Neville Gittens.
Wiesel said he would do so in the hotel lobby, but the man insisted on going to Wiesel's room. The man then stopped the elevator at the sixth floor and tried to force Wiesel into a room there.
"That's when the victim started yelling," Gittens said.
Wiesel escaped unharmed, made his way down to the lobby and called police.
A man calling himself Eric Hunt and claiming to be the attacker posted an account of the incident on a virulently anti-Semitic Web site. The account, posted Tuesday, matches the description of the attack police later released.
Gittens said police were aware of the Web site and that there is a suspect being sought. However, he would not say whether the suspect is the person who posted the Web account.
In his posting, Hunt said his goal was for Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40 books, to renounce the Holocaust.
"I had planned to bring Wiesel to my hotel room, where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his non-fiction Holocaust memoir, Night, is almost entirely fictitious," Hunt wrote on the site.
The site is registered to a Sydney, Australia, man who also writes on the site. A phone call and e-mail to the domain name owner were not returned.
E-mail Matthai Chakko Kuruvila at [email protected].
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Perhaps something can be said about creating a world of intolerance and bigotry. In many respects, we're all guilty. This must be quelled before we all blow each other up.
In other news, Anna Nicole Smith is still dead. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | | In his posting, Hunt said his goal was for Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of more than 40 books, to renounce the Holocaust. |
No words could describe my horror and confusion better than this pic. |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
No words could describe my horror and confusion better than this pic. |
uh....pic? :conf: |
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| Shakka |
| It's a pretty sad commentary on society when things like this happen. |
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| Demoted |
| I thought he'd be older. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
uh....pic? :conf: |
Wasn't there an (img) tag in my post? So, look it up :)
(It's safe for work) |
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| metalgearsolid |
where the hell do you come up with this garbage?
Damnit:whip: It didn't post too. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
where the hell do you come up with this garbage? |
hmm... I guess I searched for "what the hell" on Google Images :p
Anyway, let's not focus on the image more than on the news: that was just unbelievable! |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Wasn't there an (img) tag in my post? So, look it up :)
(It's safe for work) |
Sorry, my omnipotence meter appears to be broken...:clown:
what [img] tag? :conf: |
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| mango_tree |
| the perpetrator should be flogged to death :whip: |
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| shaolin_Z |
| I find it interesting how stuff like this is only a big deal when the victim is Jewish (or in some cases black) but not if it's any other ethnic/religious group. I guess since we haven't been enslaved or put in concetration camps we don't get special treatment yet. The power of guilt, and denial. Unless it didn't happen in your own backyard, it didn't happen. You know, like the Palestinian holocaust which our tax dollars pay for. [EDIT] I don't see any outrage being expressed about denying that holocaust eigther btw. |
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