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| Iranian paper runs Holocaust contest |
| 2006-02-07 |
| Iran's biggest-selling newspaper has chosen to tackle the West's ideals of "freedom of expression" by launching a competition to find the 12 "best" cartoons about the Holocaust, the Associated French Press reported on Monday. Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor for Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper, said that the deliberately inflammatory contest would test out how committed Europeans were to the concept freedom of expression. "The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said. Iran has withdrawn its ambassador to Denmark and has said it plans to review trade ties with all countries where the cartoons were published. Protests, some violent, swirled through the Muslim world Monday while politicians sought diplomatic solutions to the growing and increasingly violent crisis surrounding published caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Four protesters were killed in Afghanistan. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has made comments about the Holocaust over the past few months, including suggestions that European countries give Jews some of their land in order to solve the Palestinian problem. "If your newspapers are free why do not they publish anything about the innocence of the Palestinians and protest against the crimes committed by the Zionists?" the Mehr news agency recently quoted him as saying. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #12 I thing Mahomoud really does thing the west is going to rise up in protest and react in kind; firebombing embassies, kicking oout ambassadors, boycotts and - well my, whatever shall we do without fatwas to kill the authors. do we have those? He's nuts! The thundering silence and lack of interest of concern is going to drive him bananas. What a hoot this is going to be. Mind you, more foaming at the mouth would just him closer to the button on his nuke. This could both implode and explode. Coool. |
| Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-02-07 19:01 |
| #11 Big Yawn. Yeah, I'll go get my placard prepared and practice my chanting. Where is the Iranian embassy again? |
| Posted by: Unique Battle 2006-02-07 18:32 |
| #10 Wow! Zenster! Who's gonna draw that up? Who will explain all the symbolism? It's like Moby Dick in one page! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-02-07 16:53 |
| #9 Here's your Holocaust cartoon. (It took a while to come up with something appropriate.) The image of an overstuffed Nazi crematorium with yarmulka-clad heads sticking out of the open portal. Crouched beneath it is a trembling Ahmadinejad feverishly attempting to stoke the furnace with handfuls of pages being torn from a Koran. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-07 16:00 |
| #8 The more we learn about them, the more crude, barbaric, and expendible they become to civilization. When I first arrived here at Rantburg, I felt obliged to dispute this point, at least in some degree. As with Islam's thundering silence I, too, find myself increasingly silent in the face of such observations. If the spectre of a nuclear armed Iran did not loom over all of these proceedings, this Holocaust cartoon would be superbly appropriate as a demonstration of just how sick the mullahs are. Instead, this is one of the last unlit red warning lights finally coming on upon the launch board. These twisted sh!ts must be brought to account. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-07 11:40 |
| #7 I must say, I don't see that there could possibly be any equivalence between "published caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad", and the caricature of the slaughter of 6 million Jews. |
| Posted by: Graiter Claling1714 2006-02-07 11:24 |
| #6 The more we learn about them, the more crude, barbaric, and expendible they become to civilization. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-02-07 09:56 |
| #5 Look for the Pig Faced Preacher from Pennslyvania to particpate. Mark Dankof can be found on pages 5-6. |
| Posted by: Groping Pervert 2006-02-07 09:56 |
| #4 This should be enlightening for them. Are they expecting crowds of angry Iranian Jews to riot in their streets, others to burn down their embassy in Syria, and a demand from Israel to curb free speech in Iran? |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-02-07 09:54 |
| #3 How will anyone know when they are running the contest? The contents of the paper will be the same as any other islamic publication. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-02-07 09:16 |
| #2 Anti-Mohammed cartoons. A new Ted Rall parody series added since yesterday: http://tinyurl.com/c36xz |
| Posted by: Wholing Shese7154 2006-02-07 08:56 |
| #1 I can't draw, but a few suggestions to those who can. Kurds in baggy pants drive ethnic persians out of their homes Caption; "We just need lebensraum" Arabs look over a ring of American tanks around Khuzestan, oil wells in the background Caption; "This is our promised land" Azeris, in newly independant South Azerbaijan, grovelling Persians beg for some access to the Caspian Sea, with a map behind that shows South Azerbaijan now controls the entire southern shore (with requisite oil wells in the background). Caption; "We needed a final solution to the Persian problem" I am sure others can add their own suggestions. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-02-07 08:41 |