jorvik wrote:
and look at his occupation "Historian"
also the guy who was imprisoned was a historian
Actually he isn't. Irving briefly tried college twice, first majoring in physics and then in political economics, but never graduated. What he has done has been to make a career of making up history. In the 1960s he published a popular book about the bombing of Dresden which inflated the death toll, basing his estimates on information told to him by "Dresden's Deputy Chief Medical Officer along with some supporting documentation. According to Irving the death toll was 100,000-250,000 (although he later lowered it to 50,000-100,000). Irving was completely discredited when it was revealed in a 2000 trial that
Irving based his estimates of the dead of Dresden on the word of one individual who provided no supporting documentation, used forged documents, and described one witness who was a urologist as Dresden's Deputy Chief Medical Officer. The doctor has since complained about being misidentified by Irving, and further, was only reporting rumours about the death toll. Today, casualties at Dresden are estimated as most likely 25,000-35,000 dead, and probably towards the lower end of that range.
Regarding Irving's book
Hitler's War, mentioned in the news article about Irving's sentencing in Austria, in it
Irving manufactured battles; for instance, crediting Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner with a victory in April 1945 against the Red Army for the control of Ostrava, a battle which did not, in fact, take place.
Not much of a historian. But even if he were a historian, historians are not above the law.
jorvik wrote:
We can talk freely about all manner of holocausts right back to Roman times , but for some strange reason we can't talk about this one, why?
You are side-stepping my point. It's a matter of being sensitive to those still around who were affected by a horrific event and time...and I am referring to the whole event, war, holocaust, etc, that engulfed a continent. If you want to judge the Austrians and others in Europe who created these laws as a result of that time, you better be prepared to investigate and try to understand what they went through at the hands of the Nazis first, as that directly relates to why they created these laws.
....so maybe the good Bishop is talking rubbish..but it would be nice if he could threaten his detractors with 5 years prison time 
......and what if he is correct? would the folks who've told us that there has been a holocaust accept that there wasn't one ?.free speech does cut both ways but we don't have free speech do we 
.......and in some countries this is not even open to debate.....a lot of Muslims don't believ that there was a holocaust.just good publicity for the Jewish cause
