David Ahenakew, a Senator with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and a former chief of the Assembly of First Nations made these shocking comments at a FSIN meeting last Friday:
"The Jews damn near owned all of Germany prior to the war," Ahenakew said.
"That's how Hitler came in. He was going to make damn sure that the Jews didn't take over Germany or Europe. That's why he fried six million of those guys, you know. Jews would have owned the goddamned world. And look what they're doing. They're killing people in Arab countries."
Approached afterwards to clarify his comments on Jews and the Second World War, Ahenakew said he agreed with his German friends. When asked how he could justify the Holocaust, Ahenakew said: "How do you get rid of a disease like that, that's going to take over, that's going to dominate?"
It's time for the FSIN to publicly repudiate Ahenakew, boot him out the door and treat him like a pariah. Anything less is completely unacceptable.