Holocaust Cartoon Contest

by Kris   ⋅   February 8, 2006   ⋅   Comment now   ⋅    RSS

In case you haven’t heard, the Danish circulation of provocative albeit political caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (featured above), have received offensive outcries from Muslims, creating even more attention and tension and another good excuse for violent riots and flag burning. In response, they’ve created their own “cartoon contest.”

The [Iranian] daily paper Hamshahri said the contest was designed to test the boundaries of free speech — the reason given by many European newspapers for publishing the cartoons of the Prophet.

“A serious question for Muslims … is this: ‘does Western free speech allow working on issues like America and Israel’s crimes or an incident like the Holocaust or is this freedom of speech only good for insulting the holy values of divine religions?’” the paper said on Tuesday.

“Sadly, we are not surprised by this action,” CER President Joseph Sitruk (ho is also Chief Rabbi of France) said, recalling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls last year for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a myth.

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