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Iranian paper gets 700 cartoons about Holocaust
Columbus Dispatch (registration required) - via AP ^ | March 14, 2006 | Nasser Karimi

Posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:21 AM PST by Dan Middleton

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian newspaper’s contest for Holocaust-related cartoons has drawn entries from 200 people, with some drawings mocking the World War II slaughter. One entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline.

Most contest entrants are Iranian, but six are Americans and a few cartoons have been submitted from as far away as Indonesia and Brazil, according to the Hamshahri newspaper. A few of the drawings have been posted online.

Hamshahri began the contest last month as a test of the West’s readiness to print cartoons about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews.

The contest, which runs through May 15, comes in response to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests across much of the Muslim world.

One submission reflects the opinion of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew international outrage last year when he said the Holocaust was a myth.

The cartoon, by Iranian Firouzeh Mozafari, shows a circle of nine Jewish men entering and leaving a gas chamber that shows a counter reading "5,999,999," implying that Jews have inflated the number of Holocaust victims.

U.S. cartoonist Mike Flugennock’s cartoon asks: "What has Ariel Sharon learned from the Holocaust?" It shows bulldozers razing Palestinian homes and an Israeli soldier pointing a gun at a Palestinian protester’s head, above Flugennock’s answer to the question: "Humiliation, tyranny, brutality and murder."

Flugennock, of Washington, insists his entry is not anti-Semitic but legitimate political criticism because it criticizes not the Jewish people or their religion but Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.

"It specifically addresses policies of the Israeli state with regard to its behavior in Palestine, and their similarities to the strategies employed by the Nazi regime in Warsaw and elsewhere," he said in an email.

Flugennock said he saw the contest as a chance to tell the world "that there is ‘another America’ that sees through the policies of the Israeli state and isn’t afraid of reactionaries’ trying to tar them with the epithet ‘anti-Semite.’ "

Farid Mortazavi, who is managing the contest for Hamshahri, said he has received about 700 cartoons from some 200 artists.

A Web site run by contest organizers says entries have come in from 35 countries.

The newspaper is offering prizes of up to $12,000.

Some submissions, some of which were posted online, address the Palestinians’ situation rather than the Holocaust.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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1 posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:25 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: Dan Middleton

Er...I wasn't aware that the Danish cartoons were done by Jews.


2 posted on 03/14/2006 11:36:47 AM PST by Windsong (Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
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To: Windsong

Everybody who's not a Muslim is a Jew to them, it seems.


3 posted on 03/14/2006 11:37:46 AM PST by Dan Middleton (Radio...Free...Mars)
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To: Dan Middleton

I'm offended! Where's the nearest embassy to burn?


4 posted on 03/14/2006 11:40:10 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Exactly. Does anybody know what time the riot starts? I don't want to be left behind...


5 posted on 03/14/2006 11:41:42 AM PST by liberty_lvr (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA


Just burn down the offices of "CAIR" since that is the embassy of the Islamofascists in the US.


6 posted on 03/14/2006 11:50:02 AM PST by msnimje (SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
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To: Dan Middleton
Gary Larson Tapped as Director of new Cartoon Warfare Center. Many notable comic strip authors are already rumored to be on board to combat the latest Militant Islamic cartoon aggression. "We are planning something far greater in scale than the DoD's Shock & Awe. The effects will be devastating...and down right hilarious"
7 posted on 03/14/2006 11:54:15 AM PST by Sax
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To: Windsong

Hadn't you herd? islamites believe Jews are to blame for Denmark.

One "cartoonist", in an apparent attempt to deny the holocaust as reality, sent in a blank sheet of paper. The editors mistakenly thought it exhibited the exhuberant content of the 'toonist's character as he must have inadvertantly placed the wrong sheet in his submittal, so they threw it away. "When we looked at it, we just drew a blank", said one assistant, shrugging his shoulders. "Realizing our mistake, we later tried to secretly replace it with lined notepaper, which made the 'toonist so furious, he refuses to admit the contest exists," he declared.


8 posted on 03/14/2006 11:55:44 AM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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9 posted on 03/14/2006 12:01:56 PM PST by SJackson (There is but one language which can be held to these people, and this is terror, William Eaton)
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To: azhenfud
One "cartoonist", in an apparent attempt to deny the holocaust as reality, sent in a blank sheet of paper. The editors mistakenly thought it exhibited the exhuberant content of the 'toonist's character as he must have inadvertantly placed the wrong sheet in his submittal, so they threw it away. "When we looked at it, we just drew a blank", said one assistant, shrugging his shoulders. "Realizing our mistake, we later tried to secretly replace it with lined notepaper, which made the 'toonist so furious, he refuses to admit the contest exists," he declared.

No, it simply means his MIND is as blank as that piece of paper. Nothing to record from a mindless idiot!

10 posted on 03/14/2006 12:04:08 PM PST by micho
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(It was a tale of sarcasm.)


11 posted on 03/14/2006 12:06:52 PM PST by azhenfud (He who always is looking up seldom finds others' lost change.)
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To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; A Jovial Cad; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; adam_az; af_vet_rr; agrace; ahayes; ...
Israeli anti-Semitic cartoons contest (the Jewish cartoons are actually funny!)

Here is one of my faves (it being Purim and all)

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12 posted on 03/14/2006 12:20:55 PM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 72-76)
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To: Dan Middleton

And the irony will be lost on the lamestream media when the Jews don't riot.


13 posted on 03/14/2006 12:28:02 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Dan Middleton
I'm thinking of submitting an entry. It will have a picture of Mohammed with Adolph Hitler. Mo will be saying, "Way to go, Adolph, I couldn't have done a better job myself." Satan will be in the background applauding.

Think that one will win?

14 posted on 03/14/2006 2:16:10 PM PST by Defiant (Muslim Unitarian:There is no God but Abraham's, and Mohammed said he was his prophet.)
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To: Yehuda

I can't draw worth a lick, but if you can come up with a drawing using that idea, then I will make sure it gets submitted. Just call me Mr. Fatwa.


16 posted on 03/14/2006 9:11:45 PM PST by Defiant (Muslim Unitarian:There is no God but Abraham's, and Mohammed said he was his prophet.)
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To: liberty_lvr
We first have to over turn Ronald McDonald.....
17 posted on 03/14/2006 9:12:17 PM PST by Defendingliberty (www.gulagthebear.com)
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To: Defiant
This was a tough one for me to do....
18 posted on 03/14/2006 9:15:02 PM PST by Defendingliberty (www.gulagthebear.com)
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To: Dan Middleton

I just returned from the far east. Met and enjoyed the company of a Danish couple. He was obviously shockrd by my reaction when after introduc Oh Cut The BullShit. All the English language papers in TRhailand and Japapan and Korea were concerned , in editorials, letters to the paper , etc with the western hypocracy about the "press freedom" which allows mockery of the "prophrt" yet Jails David Irving for a book about the holocaust. Wake UP America.


19 posted on 03/14/2006 9:29:50 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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