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Iran paper to publish Holocaust ‘cartoons’
In apparent retaliation for the publishing and reprinting of the infamous Mohammed cartoons by various papers overseas, an Iranian paper has announced that it is going to hold a contest on cartoons on the Holocaust. Via Australia’s NEWS.com.au:
IRAN’S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
“It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust,” said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper – which is published by Teheran’s conservative municipality.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of 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’s fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe’s Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated.
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe’s Jews as a “myth” used to justify the creation of Israel.
Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow’s edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with “private individuals” offering gold coins to the best 12 artists – the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Um, the obvious question would be: what in the world does an Iranian newspaper know about the freedom of expression?
I know that the paper is claiming that this is in retalation for those ‘offensive’ cartoons, but the real story here is not so much about the cartoons as it is about Iran taking yet another opportunity to openly taunt Israel and the West by openly denying the Holocaust yet again.
Read more commentary on this via Gina Cobb, Debbie Schlussel, Tigerhawk, Confederate Yankee, Stop The ACLU
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Another US media double standard re: cartoons
- US media will print Abu Ghraib photos but not controversial cartoons
- Multicultural sensitivity and how it can have brutal consequences
- US sides with Muslims in cartoon controversy
- More European papers reprinting “offensive” Islamic cartoons
- Bomb threats made against Danish paper over Mohammed cartoons
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Regarding this latest asininity from the appalling travesty of government that is the leadership of Iran: Who Cares? Just more Arab shtuyot; nu, gai cocknif in yam, eh, Iran?
I say this as an observant Jew, and without bile; after all, the Arab press is DAILY filled with cartoons that represent Jews as Nazis, drinkers of Gentile blood, secret rulers of the world, et cetera. . .it is my fervent prayer that this overt display of the GOIran’s innate and pernicious ugliness will rebound upon it by forcing even the most dim-witted of the flocking moonbats to acknowledge the danger we confront in pretending we can parley with these beasts.
I enjoy your writing, and admire your forthrightness and concern. Kol Hakavod!
Kol Tuv
6PO
I’m sure their Holocaust Cartoon contest, will really hit home with all of those Danish Zionist jews……..
LOL….Iran trying to retaliate against who ??
“parley with these beasts”, with that statement one wonders which side is actually the “beast”? It is possible, with and open mind, to see a couple of positive developments with the Iranian excercise, not the least of which is to see what they create and what it means. In psychoanalysis one can not get on the road to recovery without first expelling their demons. This is a battle between extremists. Wahhabist extremists, Zionist extremists and evangelical Christian(armageddonists) extremists. Peace
Print something offensive to non-Muslims and get a lot of protest mail. Print something offensive to terrorists, get riots, destruction, and death. While the ‘impartial’ MSM tells one group to be tolerant and apologizes to another group, guess which side will run out of cartoons first?
Innocent people in the middle may properly question if the pen is mightier than the sword.
steve, you are the extremist here who wants to see Israel pushed into the sea. Iran’s leadership is psychotic, to say the least.
These guys should now wait for all the Jewish guys to burn embassies and kill people all over the world. Heh, NOT!
The worst thing the Danes ever did was Danish cookies with trans fats. And suddenly they’re all evil and should die in hell and be decapitated and blah blah blah.
This doesn’t seem like a very big deal to me. We all know that there are nutjobs in the Islam faith, and a particularly large chunk of them in the Iranian gov’t.
It’s really just an opportunity for the West to show Islam how to protest in a civilized fashion. Or to show that we really don’t care what they print at all. Either way, it’s a valuable lesson.
What do you all think of this awful retaliatory muslim cartoon?
What hateful bigots huh?
Bandwidth exceeded Andrew. Here’s one though!
steve says, It is possible, with and open mind, to see a couple of positive developments with the Iranian excercise
Exercise? You think what is happening is an exercise?
What will anything positive come of this? They wish to have a contest for anti-semitic cartoons also. Positive? All it will do is fuel hatred.
Yes Alex, steve would like to buy a clue now.
“Bandwidth exceeded Andrew. Here’s one though!”
I noticed that. They’re cheapskate bigots too.
Since Denmark’s foremost religion is Evangelical Lutheran why is Iran’s newspaper targeting the Holocaust for cartoons? Sounds to me like they are trying to provoke Israel which I don’t believe reprinted the cartoons in any of their newspapers. If they are really trying to prove a point why not print cartoons of Jesus or of the Mother Mary since that would cover the major religions in Europe. Could it be that any thing that “Offends Muslims” is going to be blamed on Israel? Maybe President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to focus the people’s attention on one enemy and divert their attention away from the people’s problems and what his Government is doing? That would be the same tactic as Hitler used to rally the German people around him.
Steve – With all due respect, I don’t think you have a point to make.
“‘parley with these beasts’, with that statement one wonders which side is actually the ‘beast’? It is possible, with and [sic] open mind. . .”
I don’t know what you are getting at. You seem to be suggesting I am an extremist (and you even slipped in the obligatory “Zionist” at the end, nice going) because I refer to those who call for acts of mass murder as “beasts”.
I shudder to think what one would have to do or be to make YOU willing to call them a beast.
Or is it all good by you – after all, in some cultures, gang rape is fine – as long as it only happens to someone else?
I listen carefully to many people who disagree with me, but I expect them to present reasoning better than “it’s all the extremists’ fault”.
From my POV, people who refuse to acknowledge Iran and all other hateful Muslim entities for what they are – based on the WORDS AND BEHAVIOR OF THE MUSLIMS, not on the dreamy imaginings of a Western moonbat – are the true extremists; so secure and certain in their moral inviolability that they will loudly demand a halo for their bravery while simultaneously betraying countless millions to death, fear, and suffering (generally at the hands of governments like Iran’s.)
Since you are evidently willing to write off other people’s freedom and lives so long as your own is protected, I hope you will consider the ugly implicit ethical cowardice in that position. Many people in the world are deprived of the freedom and safety that allow this poisonous ideology to fester.
Do not support the evil men, Steve. They sure wouldn’t support you. And remember, extremist is as extremist does. I believe passionately, but conduct myself decently and civilly at all times. . .you see, that’s part of my Jewish “extremism”.
Shalom
6PO
You will win support if you do not refer to other people as “beasts”. When you do that the level that you reach is the same level as those to whom you refer. And it is the extremist who cause the violence, not the middle. All of the groups that were refered to are extremist groups who should be dis-credited. Peace
The people from whom I could “win support” by accepting their premise that mass murderers are not beasts are not persons from whom I wish to elicit support.
You have essentially reiterated your original statement that this is an issue of extremists. I disagree. You have not answered my previous post.
Where do YOU draw the line? Or is ALL behavior “non-beastly” to you? What is your position vis-a-vis the victims of the acts perpetrated by those you say I wrongly label “beastly”?
I hear you disagreeing with me, but so far you don’t seem to have an argument.
Should you consider actually addressing my points, you might also explain how you class Wahabbists in the same group as Zionists. Both groups have been the subject of intense study for me, and I see few similarities.
I believe I can predict your response, but I would be pleased to be proven wrong.
Kol Tuv
6PO
6pointsout, Steve will never have an argument. Steve does not respond to logic or reason. You won’t learn much by discussing things with him. He is the unfortunate product of sociology101, and won’t make sense until he has taken sociology 201 or 202, or more likely until he has gone out into the real world. Until then, he’ll spout anarchist/communist rhetoric (but use big words sometimes!) as if they are truth. In the interst of your sanity, I suggest you ignore his comments
For the first time however, I grudgingly agree with him. Calling the other side ‘beasts’ is a severe hindrance to diplomacy. It is almost an admittance that diplomacy has failed and is over.
For my part, I have no problem admitting this. It’s over. The attempt from the world of Islam to suppress the rest of the world’s freedoms was the last straw. Diplomoacy has failed, and the next option on the list should be tried (I guess that’s sanctions, but only for a few months).
Blogagog – point about not feeding trolls well-taken. I should better control my ire.
That said, your last para tells it all. You see, “diplomacy” can only exist between parties that approach the table in good faith.
People who repeatedly return to the table only to tell more lies and threaten more killing are not parties to diplomacy; they are beasts.
My purpose in using this language is to implicitly declare my feeling, too, that “diplomacy” is dead as an infidel in Saudi Arabia. See what I’m saying?
May we all be strong and good enough to build a better world soon.
Shalom
6PO
Well put. We’ve got a painful road ahead of us.
I had to go back to 2/7 to find an Iran post…
Here is a proposal by Condi Rice
Err.. I believe printing Holocaust cartoons is a typical retaliation to the entire western world, since its probably the most sticky wicket here. I don’t have a problem with Holocaust cartoons just as I don’t have a problem with anti-Islam cartoons. Its a nice way of Iran to rile up the west. You gotta give’em credit for that. You gotta be fair. I think the rioters are uncivilized and the reaction is barbarian. But when it comes to cartoon, I believe anything is fair game.