Iranian Holocaust Contest gets 700 Cartoons
Is that disgusting or what?
200 Artists from around the world entered, including a few Americans.
These cartoons are designed to mock Israel and the Holocaust, in response to the 12 Danish cartoons.
So what now?
Will Iranians, and other Muslims so inclined, be seen marching in the streets waving signs that say "700 to 12", and chanting "We beat the Great Satan!"?
Most of the contestants are Iranian, but at least six Americans have submitted cartoons, including Mike Flugennock, whose entry asks: "What has Ariel Sharon learned from the Holocaust?" The answer: "Humiliation, tyranny, brutality and murder."
This guy had the nerve to say HIS cartoon was not Anti-Semitic.
The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, one of the nation's top five, conceived the contest as a response to the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten's solicitation of cartoons depicting Islam's prophet Muhammad, which evoked a violent reaction around the Muslim world.
In February, Farid Mortazavi, Hamshahri's graphics editor said the paper intended to turn the tables on the assertion offensive material can be published in the name of free speech.
"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 said.
Offering a $12,000 first prize, Hamshahri has received about 700 cartoons from 200 artists from 35 countries, the Scotsman reported. The best 12 artists will be rewarded, the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper.
The WorldNet Daily story also tells of an Israeli response to this, the logic of which is hilarious:
"We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!" said Sandy "No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!"
Ooookaaay. ;-D
The question now is this: How will the Media in the West react?
Will the Networks, Newspapers, and Magazines, which showed, or printed the Danish Muhammad Cartoons publish some of the most offensive of these as well?
Will the Networks, Newspapers, and Magazines, which DID NOT show, or print, the Danish Cartoons also decide to not show any of these as well?
How will these fine folks explain their decisions to their readers, and viewers?
Hi,
The US main stream will not publish anything offensive to Islamist Radicals as our main stream has the backbone of an Ameoba.
Also, many organizations have Arab Government Money flowing into them.
This means influence.
Accuracy in Media has several articles on this.
As far as Shoa cartoons, Iran need only look to our own US mainstream press.
If you'll recall a few years ago, the NEA commissioned a photo, which was changed a bit to show a concentration camp inmate (Auschwitz, I believe)starved, holding a can of diet coke.
Apparently this was artistic expression and freedom of the press, as the various degraded Christian pieces of Art with which we have become so familiar.
Anything that would offend the pocketbooks or skins of our glorious main stream is of course off limits.
Posted by: paul | 03/15/2006 at 04:35 AM
Check out the site for the Israeli reply - these guys really DO do it better. (A lot of theirs are actually funny.)
Posted by: Kathy K | 03/18/2006 at 03:16 PM