Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.The Brussels-based Conference of European Rabbis (CER) denounced the idea and urged the Muslim world to do likewise.
The Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism, described the competition as "deliberately inflammatory."
The Iranian daily 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.
"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 asked.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Engagé
The battle is engaged! Pop the popcorn! Man the ramparts and towers! Poison the arrows! Dart the boards! Hide the women and children! Parachute the angels! Saddle up the donkey! Nuke the whales! Why won't God/Allah/Elohim/Zeus/Brahman/'Ngai/The Jade Emperor/Ahura Mazda/Waheguru/Jah/Tenri-o-no-Mikoto/Ometecuhtli/Odin just remove his supersoaker from his omnipotent bat utility belt and hose down everyone involved? Could it be...?
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I read about that. In fact, I'm working on my entry right now. Any word on what the prize is going to be?
I was wondering about why it took so many months to bring this outrage out (the cartoons were published back in September) and I was reading today that Danish Muslim Imams went to the Middle East to stir things up BY ADDING THREE CARTOONS to the original 12 and it's THESE THREE that are causing the furor. One shows Mohammed as a pig, one show him being fucked by a dog, and the third portrays him as a pedophile. The Danes are accusing these Imams of being the cause of this. I was wondering, because those original 12 are pretty tame stuff.
I think the prize ought to be a giant inflatable Tickle-Me-Elmo.
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