` :If I am well informed there are currently in world 195 countries which have a seat at the UNO and can therefore be seen as independent sovereign countries.  Among these 195 countries there are only 11 which have specific laws against holocaust denial.  And I never got the feeling that holocaust denial is more widespread in said countries than in other ones.  Beside a weak student usually does not know what he is talking about but does normally not promote a fringe theory.  When someone is promoting holocaust denial he is not proving himself to be a ``weak student`` but to be a holocaust denier (for many possible reasonS among which anti-Semitism is the more common one).   `