British Holocaust Day Remains...

Fortunately, reason has prevailed.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said Monday it had no plans to rename Britain's Holocaust Day, despite calls from Muslim groups to make the annual memorial more inclusive.

The proposal by a committee of Muslim leaders advising the government as it seeks to combat Islamic extremism want to replace Holocaust Memorial Day with a Genocide Day that would include recognition of Muslim deaths in the West Bank and Gaza, Chechnya and Bosnia, according to the British paper the Sunday Times.

A Home Office spokesman said that it would consider the proposals but said it regarded the Holocaust as a "defining tragedy in European history," according to the Times.

"There are 500 Palestinian towns and villages that have been wiped out over the years," Ibrahim Hewitt, chairman of the charity Interpal, told the Times. "That's pretty genocidal to me."

And, these are the muslims advising Blair!