Holocaust cartoon fair opens in Iran

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by Rick_Michael, Aug 14, 2006.

  1. #1
    *Too much time on their hands....they need a hobbie.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060814/wl_mideast_afp/iranmediaholocaust

    TEHRAN (AFP) - An international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust opened in Tehran in response to the publication in Western papers last September of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

    "We staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in," Masoud Shojai, head of the country's "Iran Cartoon" association and the fair organizer, said.

    "They can freely write anything they like about our prophet, but if one raises doubts about the Holocaust he is either fined or sent to prison," he added.

    "Though we do not deny that fact that Jews were killed in the (second world) war, why should the Palestinians pay for it?" Shojai told the opening ceremony of the month-long fair in Tehran's Palestine Contemporary Art Museum.

    He added that around 1,100 cartoons were submitted by participants from more than 60 countries and that more than 200 are on show.

    He said the top three cartoons will be announced on September 2, with the winners being awarded prizes of 12,000, 8,000 and 5,000 dollars respectively.

    Shojai did not elaborate on the source of the prize money, but emphasized that it did not come from any governmental body.

    The fair is being staged by
    Iran Cartoon and the country's largest selling newspaper Hamshahri newspaper, which is published by Tehran's conservative municipality.

    The contest was announced in February in a tit-for-tat move after caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed were first printed in Denmark and then picked up and published worldwide, enraging Muslims.

    Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionists, who maintain that the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews and other groups during World War II was either invented or exaggerated.

    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also prompted international anger by dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth" used to justify the creation of
    Israel.
     
    Rick_Michael, Aug 14, 2006 IP
  2. Lord Brar

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    Maybe someone needs to make more mohommad cartoons right now to compare limits of freedom on both sides. :D
     
    Lord Brar, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    Don't worry, they will be sent trembling again ;)

    Where are the pics?
    Guess they are nor sure about what to do?
     
    Arnie, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    So if thousands of people don't take to the streets over here in protest, then the people that protested over here will admit they're all uptight @ssholes who over-react?
     
    MattUK, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    :confused: What would that translate to in English?
     
    Lord Brar, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    Masoud Shojai seems extremely immature in doing this. "Sticks and Stones" attitude is stupid.
     
    Xitanto, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    not a surprise ...
     
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    LOL - Cartoon #6

    Brilliant!
     
    MattUK, Sep 13, 2006 IP