Ahmed Rami (Arabic: أحمد رامي) (born December 12, 1946) is a Moroccan-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 Tafraoute, Morocco, where he was an army officer and still claims to have had close ties with General Mohamed Oufkir. He sought and obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1973, after claiming to have participated in a fail...
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Ahmed Rami (Arabic: أحمد رامي) (born December 12, 1946) is a Moroccan-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 Tafraoute, Morocco, where he was an army officer and still claims to have had close ties with General Mohamed Oufkir. 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?"). Rami was...
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