France is a country officially based on its form of laïcité, essentially the absence of religious involvement in governmental affairs.  It is welcoming that it has taken to heart a passage from the biblical Proverbs: it is joy to the just to do judgment, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.  That judgment is punishment for the denial of the Holocaust. That judgment should prevail in the trial of the 87-year-old extreme right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, currently a member of the European Parliament,  who on July 26, 2015 was summoned to stand trial for denying crimes against humanity, in this case the Holocaust. In 1987 Le Pen , the founder in 1972 and longtime leader of the Front National (FN) party, made a remark for which he was convicted of racial hatred and was fined 183,000 euros.  At that time, he said, “I’m not saying the gas chambers didn’t exist.  But I believe it’s just a detail...(Read Full Article)