Roger Garaudy
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Roger Garaudy (born July 17, 1913, in Marseille) is a French author and philosopher, and former communist who has converted to Islam. In 1998, a French court found him guilty of Holocaust denial and racial defamation, fining him FF 120,000 ($40,000) for his 1995 book, "The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics". Endorsing the views of French revisionist "historian" Robert Faurisson, the book declared that during the Holocaust, Jews were not killed in gas chambers.[1] (http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles/vaziri_garaudy.html) The book was quickly translated into Arabic and Persian and a Sudanese lawyer, Faruk M. Abu Eissa, assembled a five-man legal team to support Garaudy at his trial in Paris.
Garaudy is also known to be a friend of Abbé Pierre. The year of Garaudy's conviction, Abbé Pierre endorsed "the Founding Myths..." and also compared the Holocaust to the supposed "atrocities" of the ancient Israelites.
Garaudy has written over 20 books, including:
- Do we need God? (Avons-nous besoin de Dieu?)
- God is dead (Dieu est mort)
- The grandeur and decadences of Islam
- Islam and integrism
- Call to the living
- Who do you say that I am?
- Towards a war of religion