 What in the name of God does this have to do with the holocaust? |
Posted on 02/08/2006 7:13:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Danish Editor Says He'll Print Holocaust Cartoons
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Iranian newspaper says it plans to publish cartoons about the Nazi Holocaust -- and a Danish editor says he'll reprint them if he can.
Flemming Rose was behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have ignited deadly rioting in the Muslim world.
Rose tells CNN he's trying to coordinate with the Iranian newspaper that's soliciting cartoons about the Holocaust.
The Iranian paper -- "Hamshahri" -- says it will hold the competition to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of Muhammad.
Those cartoons were first published by the Danish newspaper -- "Jyllands-Posten"
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| What in the name of God does this have to do with the holocaust? |
Nothing. But as Jonah Goldberg said in his op-ed this morning, "Besides, why belittle the Holocaust for something a Danish newspaper did? (Partial credit given for the answer: "It's always useful to pick on the Jews.")"
Or Theo Van Gogh...who ended up murdered.
This is PATHETIC.
It is pathetic because they are letting these freaks tell them what to print. It's only the reverse side of the "you CAN'T print that" coin.
Very foolish to be doing this.
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