Iranian paper seeks Holocaust cartoons

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:42 am

From msnbc.com:

KABUL, Afghanistan - A prominent Iranian newspaper said Tuesday it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

Hamshahri, one of Iran’s largest papers, made clear the contest is a reaction to European newspapers’ publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which have led to demonstrations, boycotts and attacks on European embassies across the Islamic world. Several people have been killed.

Hundreds of Iranians hurled stones, and sometimes gasoline bombs, at the Danish and Austrian embassies in Tehran in protest against the cartoons Monday. Austria currently holds the European Union presidency.
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The newspaper said the contest would be launched Monday and co-sponsored by the House of Caricatures, a Tehran exhibition center for cartoons. The paper and the cartoon center are owned by the Tehran Municipality, which is dominated by allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, well-known for his opposition to Israel.

Ahmadinejad, who was Tehran’s mayor until being elected president in June, provoked outcries last year when he said on separate occasions that Israel should be “wiped off the map” and the Holocaust was a “myth.”

Iran said last month it would sponsor a conference to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust, an apparent attempt to give voice to Holocaust deniers.

Hamshahri invited foreign cartoonists to enter the competition.

“Does the West extend freedom of expression to the crimes committed by the United States and Israel, or an event such as the Holocaust? Or is its freedom only for insulting religious sanctities?” Hamshahri wrote, referring to the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.

The cartoons were first published by a Danish newspaper in September. As Muslim protests mounted, numerous European newspapers have reprinted them in recent days in the name of free expression, provoking wider and angrier protests.

The drawings — including one depicting the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb — have touched a raw nerve in part because Islam is interpreted to forbid any illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad for fear they could lead to idolatry.

Eziekial · Post by **Eziekial** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:03 am

Nice. I wonder if there is a cash prize? Free gas for the rest of your life?

mappatazee · Post by **mappatazee** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:21 am

<a href="http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3565" target=blank>Muslim man complaint box</a>

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:30 am

ahahahahaha

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:32 am

Like Holocaust cartoons have never been done before.

Side note....that poor girl in your sig Ouchy!

mappatazee · Post by **mappatazee** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:34 am

Soon there will be a sitcom about Auschwitz

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:22 pm

How childish

Kramer · Post by **Kramer** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:41 pm

EVEN IF there was outcry.....

There would definetely NOT be gas bombs and terrorism involved in protesting it....

that is just freaking stupid...

noone cares that they are outraged or even that they take economic action, which is respectable, people in the west care that you are throwing gas bombs..... :eyecrazy:

when people in the US throw bombs they get put in prison, not celebrated for heroism.....

Post by **Ganzo** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:59 pm

what i want to know is how are jews responsible for Danish cartoons?

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:07 pm

Ganzo wrote:what i want to know is how are jews responsible for Danish cartoons?

Don't you know? Jews are responsible for everything evil against the Arab people.

Post by **Ganzo** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:11 pm

Well, i gues next time i hear "jews in a volkswagen" joke, i'm burning down Saudi Arabia embacy

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:22 pm

Ganzo wrote:Well, i gues next time i hear "jews in a volkswagen" joke, i'm burning down Saudi Arabia embacy

Jews in a volkwagen... sounds like a German joke... better to burn down the Nazi's embassy.

Yamori · Post by **Yamori** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:32 pm

Yeah, I'm willing to bet there won't be any people acting like animals and rioting over hollocaust cartoons.

Eldred · Post by **Eldred** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:35 pm

Well what the fuck are the Jew's gonna do about if they do make hollocost cartoons? Kill Jesus again?

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:56 pm

Ganzo wrote:what i want to know is how are jews responsible for Danish cartoons?

Exactly. Attack the jews, who cares if they had anything to do with the issue.

Another note. What ridiculous hypocrisy. We can do it, but if you do it we will kill your children and burn down your embassies?

Fascism with a nice religious buffer to protect and embolden it. Lovely combination. Instead of 'Aryan' its 'Arab.' Instead of Hitler its God. Woo Wee.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:22 pm

Cool... when the cartoons come out can we go kick some muslim ass in violent protests?

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:06 pm

We don't need a cartoon, silly! We have Bush! yeehaw!

Vincenti · Post by **Vincenti** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:26 pm

Eldred wrote:Well what the fuck are the Jew's gonna do about if they do make hollocost cartoons? Kill Jesus again?

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:37 pm

I'd love to kick some Muslim ass out of protest, but living in an Islamic country I have a feeling I'd be just slightly out numbered.

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:39 pm

Just bring 100 tanks with you.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:54 am

Vincenti wrote:
Eldred wrote:Well what the fuck are the Jew's gonna do about if they do make hollocost cartoons? Kill Jesus again?

dizaaaammn!

hahahah

I like how the muslims are going to make nasty cartoons about everyone else... and eye for an eye! They said it first...

I say we arm the nukes and wait for the next suicide bomber to take out some random family somewhere and then BOOM! entire city flattened.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:17 pm

Best jewish joke ever, gotta be white to tell this joke though.

Basically, listen to your friends tell jewish jokes, tell them

"Seriously, knock it off with the Jewish jokes, my grandfather died in Auschwitz"

"Oh man, I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't know man..."

"It's ok, he fell out of the guard tower."

dammuzis · Post by **dammuzis** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:58 pm

one that my friend told me once (knowing im jewish)

whats the difference between a jew and a pizza

the pizza doesnt scream when you put it in the oven

Zanchief · Post by **Zanchief** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:05 pm

dammuzis wrote:one that my friend told me once (knowing im jewish)

whats the difference between a jew and a pizza

the pizza doesnt scream when you put it in the oven

Two conservative Jews on this board. Ben Stein must be proud.

mofish · Post by **mofish** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:23 pm

Any of you ever heard of the 'Samson Option?'

I think its a secret (not so secret) Israeli defense policy. In the story of Samson, he pulls the walls down around himself and the Phillistines (?) in the end. I think it basically means, if a middle-eastern country launches and hits Israel with a nuclear weapon, Israel will then proceed to destroy the entire middle east, all countries.