An antisemitic white supremacist is running for Attorney General in the state of Alabama. In the Democratic Party. Ala. Candidate’s Views Startle Democrats.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Democratic Party leaders are wondering what to do about a candidate for attorney general who denies the Holocaust occurred and wants to “reawaken white racial awareness.”

Larry Darby, the founder of the Atheist Law Center, made an abortive bid for the AG job as a Libertarian in 2002, but only recently have his views on race and the Holocaust come to light.

He has no money for campaign advertising and has made only a few campaign speeches, but garnered 12 percent support in the June 6 primary in a poll of 400 registered voters last month.

But it’s even more disturbing to note that in this article about a Holocaust denier, the Associated Press uses “neutral” language when referring to the Holocaust. It isn’t a simple historical fact. It’s something “historians say,” as opposed to what “Darby said.”

You might almost get the impression that the reality of the Nazi atrocity is a legitimate subject for debate.

In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the “Holocaust industry.”

Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group’s Internet site.