The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday on Saturday stated that when he called the Holocaust a myth recently, he did not mean to say it never happened. The office of Mohamed Mahdi Akef said in a statement that his comments on Thursday was directed merely to make a point about the West's attitude toward democracy and the Palestinians. In his message on Thursday, Akef said: "Western democracy has attacked everyone who does not share the vision of the sons of Zion as far as the myth of the Holocaust is concerned."
But on Saturday, Akef's office said, according to Reuters: "Some media gave this a meaning which he did not intend a denial that the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis during World War Two happened. The fact is that he did not deny that it took place."
"He cited that as evidence of the West's policy of a double standard and of the democracy of exclusion which it practices on a wide scale," the statement added.
