About Ahmed Rami
Born 1946. Ahmed Rami is a Swedish writer and journalist.
Ahmed Rami (; born 12 December 1946) is a Moroccan-Swedish writer, political activist, coup d'etat participant, military officer and Holocaust denier. He gained attention as the founder of the radio station Radio Islam, which now functions as a website.
Biography Rami was born in Tafraout, Morocco, the son of a Berber sheikh. While attending the école normale supérieure in Casablanca, Rami joined the National Union of Popular Forces. After graduating in June 1963, Rami taught history, geography, French and Arabic at secondary schools in Casablanca. In autumn 1965, Rami enrolled in the Royal Military Academy in Meknes with the intention — as an officer — of becoming more effective in his opposition to the regime. and the station was accused of being a vehicle for antisemitism. In 1989, "Rami was charged by the Swedish Chancellor of Justice with 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 sentenced to six months imprisonment in 1990, however, in 1993, Janzon was convicted of the same crime. In March 1992, Rami hosted the “world anti-Zionist conference” in Sweden, where he interviewed Robert Faurisson for Radio Islam. Other participants included Chicago Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, Holocaust revisionist David Irving and Fred Leuchter, as well as representatives of Russia’s anti-Semitic Pamyat movement and representatives from Hezbollah and Hamas.
Rami was a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Institute for Historical Review, an organization which promotes Holocaust denial, in 1992. 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.
In October 2000, Rami was again convicted and fined by a Swedish court. and the group distributed his books on their website. Rami also distributed NSF's own pamphlets and books.
In 2006 Rami attended a conference in Tehran hosted by the IRGC which promoted Holocaust Denialism. There were a total of sixty-seven participants from thirty different countries including former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, and Yisrael Dovid Weiss, a spokesman for Neturei Karta.
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Who is Ahmed Rami?
Moroccan and Swedish writer
When was Ahmed Rami born?
Ahmed Rami was born on 12 December 1946 in Tafraout.
What is Ahmed Rami's occupation?
Ahmed Rami is a writer and journalist.
What nationality is Ahmed Rami?
Ahmed Rami is Swedish.
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