Ahmed Rami (writer)

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Ahmed Rami (born December 12, 1946) is a Swedish writer and Holocaust denier. He gained attention as the founder of the radio station Radio Islam, which now functions as a website.

Rami was born in Tafraout, Morocco, where he was an army officer and still claims to have close ties with General Mohamed Oufkir.[1] He sought and obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1973, after claiming to have participated in a failed coup against King Hassan II.

In 1987 Rami began using a public access Swedish radio station to broadcast "Radio Islam", ostensibly a public relations program for Sweden's Muslims. However, the content of the shows focused on Jews, and the station was accused of being a vehicle for antisemitism. In 1989 Rami was charged by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice for hate speech (hets mot folkgrupp). The charge was based in particular on programs aired on Radio Islam but also on passages of his book Vad är Israel? ("What is Israel?"). Among those who defended Rami's right to free speech was Swedish author Jan Guillou and the Swedish islamologist Jan Hjärpe. Rami was sentenced to six months jail in 1990, and Radio Islam's transmission permit was revoked for a year. The station resumed broadcasting in 1991 under the direction of David Janzon; however, in 1993 Janzon was convicted of the same crime. Radio Islam was off the air from 1993 to 1995, but the program returned in 1996 under Rami's direction, the same year that he established the Radio Islam website. Rami was again convicted and fined by a Swedish court in October 2000. Rami has been investigated for hate crimes in France and Sweden for his role in maintaining the Radio Islam website. The latest investigation ended in 2004 when the Swedish prosecutor was unable to prove that Rami was responsible for the content. According to Rami a "group of youngsters" were in charge of the website. He did not provide any names.

Rami frequently attends Holocaust denial conferences and maintains relations with such figures as Robert Faurisson, Ernst Zündel, Jürgen Graf, David Irving, Otto Ernst Remer, Jürgen Rieger and John Demjanjuk.[2] He also maintains relations with Swedish Neo-Nazi groups[3] who distribute many of his books.[4][5]

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  1. ^ "Ahmed Rami´s revelations concerning the coup d'état attempts in Morocco"
  2. ^ The Victms (Sic) Of Jewish Persecution, radioislam.org
  3. ^ Föreläsning i Stockholm om judefrågan (Swedish). National Socialist Front (2006-11-25). Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
  4. ^ http://nordiskaforlaget.se/sok/?q=rami%2C+ahmed&n=1&re=0
  5. ^ http://www.nsf-butiken.com/?q=rami%2C+ahmed&binfo=search&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search

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