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Iran launches Holocaust cartoon exhibit
AP ^ | August 14 2006

Posted on 08/14/2006 10:07:28 AM PDT by jmc1969

An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened Monday as Iran's response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran's hard-line president, Mahoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a "myth" and saying Israel should be destroyed.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 12cartoons; antisemites; antisemitism; blasphemy; cartoonjihad; cartoons; editorialcartoon; editorialcartoons; holocaustdenial; islamonazism; itcanhappenhere; mediabias; mediawar; revisionisthistory; sharialaw; whywefight

1 posted on 08/14/2006 10:07:28 AM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Well, let's not be adult about this, huh.


2 posted on 08/14/2006 10:08:47 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: jmc1969

Hasn't this guy learned anything from the Mel Gibson fiasco?!?!?!

Oh yeah, I forgot. Muslims get a free pass on hatred.


3 posted on 08/14/2006 10:16:10 AM PDT by Gator101
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To: jmc1969
There are some famous American cartoonists who submitted works to this "competition".

Art Spiegelman among them (he won a Pulitzer for his 2 volume comic book "graphic novel" biography about his parents' time in Auschwitz).

Some of them took the opportunity to jab at Iranian antisemitism for thinking that there is a parallel between the two subjects.

4 posted on 08/14/2006 10:16:30 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: jmc1969
Hey, Iran....


5 posted on 08/14/2006 10:16:36 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: My2Cents
Better yet...


6 posted on 08/14/2006 10:27:31 AM PDT by oldleft
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To: oldleft

I like yours better.


7 posted on 08/14/2006 10:28:43 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: jmc1969
Well, that must be a real hoot for these Islamic-Nazis. Now, I want Zbigniew Brzezinski and GEN Barry McCaffrey to explain again why a nuclear Iran is acceptable or something we'll just have to learn to live with. That should be a hoot too.
8 posted on 08/14/2006 10:32:40 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Civilization and democracy are under attack in Israel. Stand by her.)
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To: weegee

Followup to my comment.

Some of the famous artist submissions were published in The Comics Journal. I doubt that they got through the Iranian judges/censors.

There are some excerpts from the lengthy article here but no pictures....

http://tcj.com/275/n_danish.html


9 posted on 08/14/2006 10:35:26 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

War of the 12 Cartoons PT II


10 posted on 08/14/2006 10:36:22 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: jmc1969
One cartoon by Indonesian Tony Thomdean shows the Statue of Liberty holding a book on the Holocaust in its left hand and giving a Nazi-style salute with the other.

What a freaking cretin! He can't even get his imagery straight. It was the guys who used to do the "Nazi-like salute" who took roughly the same position as he would take, and it was the Statue of Liberty guys who kicked their @sses.

11 posted on 08/14/2006 10:45:35 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on......)
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To: jmc1969

So are Jews going to arrange to protest and shut cities down the way the Muslims did in France over a few cartoons? Naturally not but I wonder if the world notices the difference between class and terrorist tactics.


12 posted on 08/14/2006 10:52:48 AM PDT by Peach (Prayers for Israel and all who love her.)
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To: jmc1969

bump


13 posted on 08/14/2006 11:13:59 AM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: jmc1969

They can dish it out but they can't take it.


14 posted on 08/14/2006 11:41:49 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: jmc1969


When they say "Destroy Israel" I'm sure they don't really mean it....


15 posted on 08/14/2006 11:42:48 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Peach
So are Jews going to arrange to protest and shut cities down the way the Muslims did in France over a few cartoons?

Yeah, they're going to burn cars and shoot guns in the air... (NOT)

16 posted on 08/14/2006 12:31:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (Al Gore - the original "Millions Could Die" kind of guy....)
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To: jmc1969

Perhaps it's time for Mahoud Ahmadinejad and his camel lover cartoon spread.....


17 posted on 08/14/2006 1:39:06 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Don't you wish there were a knob on the computer to turn up the intelligence?)
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To: All

ON THE NET...

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html


18 posted on 08/15/2006 4:39:50 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: jmc1969

I hope this isn't a 'signal' considering his comments about 8/22. Somehow, the fact that it's exhibited now, with everything else that's going on, makes my stomach knot.


19 posted on 08/15/2006 4:47:29 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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