Iran to print some funny cartoons

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<p>Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons</p>

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<p>Iran's largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.</p>

<p>"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper, which is published by Tehran's conservative-run municipality, said on Monday.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>"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 asserted.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Systematic slaughter</p>

<p>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hardline president, 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.</p>

<p>Mortazavi said Tuesday'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 conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.</p>

<p>Last week the Iranian Foreign Ministry also invited Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to Tehran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Blair as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid".</p>

<p>Blair also said Ahmadinejad "should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe", to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators".</p>

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<p><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FCE073DD-7F1B-4714-95F0-DD1F354F1D9A.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FCE073DD-7F1B-4714-95F0-DD1F354F1D9A.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>umm, wow. i personally think the cartoon contest is immature.</p>

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<p>How immature and insensitive. About the Holocaust???</p>

<p>And hell, the slaughter of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, others on Hitler's unwanted list is NOT exaggerated nor made up! It's not a bloody myth! It was bloody reality!</p>

<p>:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:</p>

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<p>Well at least now the rest of the world will get to see how civilized nations protest. I guarantee you Israel and any other countries offended by the cartoons will not go riot in the streets, hold arabs captive as hostages, or blow up any iranian embassies. </p>

<p>Truthfully, I don't fully understand how this cartoon scandal involved into a war against the Jews. I guess I do because the arabs blame us for everything they dislike, but still. It's just immature and insensitive:(</p>

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<p>How childish can you get? The people who printed the cartoons weren't even Jewish so why does the Iranian paper want to print cartoons about the Holocaust? Why does that guy have to make everything about the Jews?</p>

<p>Further displays of idiocy by Iranians: Protestors in Iran attack the Austrian embassy. <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/06/content_4144619.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/06/content_4144619.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I think this will only serve to make the current rioters look, if possible, more childish and foolish. I cannot see the Jews or anyone else rioting in the streetsm burning flags or embassies. It is possible to take insult internally and not have an external meltdown over it and flip out for the whole world to see.</p>

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<p>If anything, they're losing any sympathy points that weren't already destroyed with the Austrian embassy. How pathetic.</p>

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<p>WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WAIT A SECOND. It may be immature but TECHNICALLY, they are using fire against fire. They are using freedom of speech back. I am no saying that they are doing the right thing, however, all I want to say is if we practice pacifism and not respond to the Holocaust cartoon like they did, then they will leave us alone because they will realize that they were overreacting to a cartoon. I mean... killing people, rioting, etc. Cmon. </p>

<p>Well, basically what i am tryign to say is if we show them we practice what we preach, they will stop.</p>

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<p>pwnt!</p>

<p>i think that the idea of the cartoons against the cartoons is a good one; it's better than killing people, certianly. and don't say that the holocaust is out of bounds if mohammad isn't. they should both be legal, niether should be done.</p>

<p>then again, middle eastern muslims have already been doing this, so it won't be a good change. and if the western world is sensible enough not to react, they can really show up the rioters, and this could blow up in Ahmadinejad's face. </p>

<p>lol blow up.</p>

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<p>I think Iran just pawned the Western World big time. They are so darn creative.</p>

<p>You guys have freedom of speech/press? Well lets see if this counts as freedom as well.... excellent. I hate how most of Europe will throw you in jail for questioning the Holocaust.</p>

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<p>the reason they're doing the holocaust? their hatred of the jews put aside, it's the single thing that would be most offensive to the western world. lots of us are unserious about christianity, we wouldn't be offended by an equally blasphemous picture of jesus, in part because we're more liberal and in part because we're used to it. to offend our sense of human rights and suffering is what will really **** us off.</p>

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<p>They're jackasses. Freedom of speech, sure. They're just exposing their true colors.</p>

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<p>how can they cry about the cartoon of moe but then think its ok to do what they consider equally offensive to another group? thats like the idiots who argue about the iraqi prison thing "well saddam tortured so its not bad for us to..." interesting thinking.</p>

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<p>Maybe because Jews make up a tiny % of the Western World? Most Christians wont care at all unless they're liberal (which doesn't go together in the first place).</p>

<p>Jews make up a tiny % but own politics/media/whatever.</p>

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<p>Cool.</p>

<p>Do they expect us to burn down Arab embassies and kill people because of this? Because that won't happen; we are much more civilized than that.</p>

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<p>Agreed. </p>

<p>(10 char.)</p>

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<p>I personally find it hilarious...a truly machiavellian move. It is not an immature move at all. You surely cannot expect them to take the moral highground.</p>

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<p>Conveniently ignoring that european newspapers did it first. Again, you cannot expect a group of people to take a moral highground...and you surely cannot expect them to react the same way you do.</p>

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<p>Although I definitely disagree with it and think it is a very bad thing to do, they too, are exercising "free speech". If people thinking printing offensive things about Muhammad is justified by "free speech/free press" then an offensive cartoon like this is also justified, by that logic. Don't think I'm supporting it. I think it's sick, but it might make people understand why the Danish cartoons were so offensive.
I don't think they expect other nations to riot and burn things, they just want to show them that "freedom of speech" goes both ways.</p>

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<p>Mocking Mohammed is different than mocking the deaths of six million people. Doesn't mean it should be restricted or that turnabout isn't fair play, but it is different.</p>

<p>And Tpeck is such a closet anti-Semite. I wonder if he's even ever met a Jew.</p>

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<p>jpp1, you're anti-Muslim, so I dont understand your flame with Tpeck.</p>