Iran Holocaust cartoon contest kicks off

AFP ^ | Febuary 13 2006 | Siavosh Ghazi

[jmc1969]

A controversial contest for cartoons of the Holocaust was launched in Iran on Monday in a tit-for-tat move over the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that have enflamed Muslims worldwide.

The first entry was said to be from renowned Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig, according to the Website organizing the competition with Iran's biggest selling newspaper Hamshahri, triggering outrage in the United States and Germany in particular.

"As a show of solidarity with the Muslim world, and an exercise in free speech, I would like to submit a cartoon to you on the theme of the Holocaust," Leunig was quoted as saying in a statement on the Irancartoons.com Website.

Hardline President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has already prompted international anger by dismissing the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel.

The first of Leunig's two cartoons on the Website show a poor man with a Star of David on his back walking toward the Auschwitz death camp in 1945 with the words "Work Brings Freedom" over the entrance.

The second shows the same scene but depicting "Israel 2002" with the slogan "War Brings Peace" over the entrance and the same man walking toward it bearing a rifle.

"I have had some difficulty getting this work published in my own country, and I believe it would help highlight the hypocrisy of the West's attitude to free speech if you were to publish it," the Melbourne-based Leunig was quoted as saying.

Hamshahri, which is published by Tehran's conservative municipality, said that the contest was officially launched on Monday with the title "What is the limit on freedom of expression in the West?"

Its graphics editor Farid Mortazavi said earlier this month that the aim was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.

Anger over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in Denmark in September, has boiled over into violent demonstrations across much of the Muslim world.

"Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims," Hamshahri charged in its advertisement for the contest.

"This assault is taking place while criticizing many issues such as the crimes of the United States and Israel as well as historical events like the Holocaust are seen as an unforgivable crime all over the West."

Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain that the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated.

The newspaper said that the contest was open until May 5. It did not announce what the prize would be but said that each artist would receive a book of the cartoons submitted.

[brannon]

should freerepublic start our own muhammad cartoon contest?

[TheForceOfOne]

I expect a full color prints of the contest in the NY Slimes along with OP-ED's about freedom of speech, and finally, reprints of anti-christian "art", in their words.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

For some reason, Jews drive their enemies berserk.


THE JOOOOOOZ IN ISLAM:
KORAN [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair [Ezra] is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!

KORAN [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:177] Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:56:791] Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a Jew behind me; kill him!' "

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6981] Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind me); kill him.

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6982] Ubaidullah has reported this hadith with this chain of transmitters (and the Words are):
"There is a Jew behind me."

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6983] Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
You and the Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6984] Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; kill him.

HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6985] Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

© Religion of Peace

KORAN: http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/
HADITH: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (Mat 7:1-2)

ISLAM DELENDA EST!

[xcamel]

That would be too easy.. just replace all of the "big mo" depictions with the face of "looterguy"

[luv2ndamend]

I do not know what this says, but it has to be funny!

[zeugma]

It seems like muslims have a serious inferiority complex when it comes to Jews. They seem to be abolutely fixated upon them to the exclusion of all else. Tell me, what is the Jewish connection to the muhammed (piss be upon him) drawings?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

should freerepublic start our own muhammad cartoon contest?

It's been done. Let's have an Allah desecration cartoon contest.

ALLAH ==>

[sgtbono2002]

Geez its getting so you cant believe anything you read in the papers. You would think someone would check their stories for accuracy. I admit I jumoped on this one without a check, but I dont have the resources nor the circulation these people do.

Maybe it would be better when we read stories from the media that we assume they are bullshiite.

[Centurion2000]

I like that one. Especially considering it's an AMERICAN boot.

[pillut48]

-'We have seen the enemy, and they are babelfish.'-

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http://www.irancartoon.com/110/indexp.htm

"Official reaction of the Iranian cartoonists to the publication of the drawings humiliating on the Mohamed prophet"
"Not with cultural terrorism, not with the attack of crowned" the 12 drawings humiliating on the Mohammed prophet (The cartoons showed Mohammed in different settings. In one of the drawings, he appeared with a turban shaped like a bomb strapped to his head.)are published by a Danish newspaper and began again by several other European publications as a sign of challenge to all the religious sensitivities of us, Iranian cartoonists , a new form of terrorism which we denounce vigorously. The initiative as of the these draughts men with court of inspiration indicates of one resentment with regard to Islam, religion of peace, tolerance and meeting of the cultures. It is about instrumental work a politically and ideologically to touch the symbol more crowned our religion with knowing our messenger, the Mohamed prophet . It is a refusal of the acceptance of the other, however held up by the European states like essential base of the democracy. An undemocratic step cultural terrorism is with its apologies
with this step aiming disparaging Islam and at presenting it as religion which calls with violence. It is in total contradiction with the democracy and, in certain European countries, with the secularity which is based
on the respect of the scarness of all the religions. The Mohamed prophet We consider that this step which pokes our sharp disappointment will not be able to reach the radiation
of the Mohamed prophet. Our dear prophet always remains, with or without his irresponsible insults, the figure on which was written the most works in the world. The documentary one recently diffused by an American chain recalling the principal phases of the life of the Mohamed prophet is a strong illustration of the radiation of the image of the prophet, symbol of peace, love and acceptance of the difference. The cartoon which has an artistic dimension inevitably is badly defended by the work of the Danish draughts men. Art expresses before all the beauty, the love and the tolerance. Any work expressing hatred and violence, even the satire, does not enter the artistic field. We invite these Danish to express, unambiguous draughts men , their excuses with all the Moslems of the world and to recognize that they reached the freedom of expression because the freedom of the ones, stops when begin the freedom of the others. We also suggest to them seeking on the life of the prophet for better knowing it before putting forth a judgment without base.

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Hypocrites. Feh. >:-(

[RabidBartender]

Maybe someone with a little artistic talent could make a Jewish Calvin (of bumper sticker and truck window fame) taking a leak on Mohammed. I betcha they'd love that one over in tolerant-land.

Though I think you'd better be loaded for bear if you put it on your window.

[Fred Nerks]

Maybe it would be better when we read stories from the media that we assume they are bullshiite.
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I do! Ever since I came across this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/523109/posts

[America's Resolve]

These morons are so lame, and lack ANY imagination. The blogosphere has been having new mohammed cartoon contests for weeks now. I know of at least 3.

[luv2ndamend]

http://www.retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_200_1_0_

[sagar]

How long before Jews start rioting and burning down Muslim embassies and calling for Muslims' heads?

[Luis Gonzalez]

You want to see Jews rioting?

Show up at Wolfies in Miami Beach during the early bird when they run out of dinner rolls.

[Screamname]

"I have had some difficulty getting this work published in my own country, and I believe it would help highlight the hypocrisy of the West's attitude to free speech if you were to publish it," the Melbourne-based Leunig was quoted as saying.

Hypocrisy? This is not about hypocrisy, it`s about how Muslims use death as an only means to problem solving. That`s what this "cartoon gate" has shown. Let`s how many Jews hold up signs asking for death over these Holocaust cartoons, I bet you won`t find one, even though they will be offended just as much as Muslims were over the Mohammed ones.

[SoothSayerONETIME]

Hillary was the 1st American to submit a cartoon for the contest. She is also getting hers published, and won a prize to meet the Iranian president.

[Ciexyz]

{yawn}

[Almondjoy]

The difference is why many muslims around the world raise a violent hand to anyone non-muslim. Probably not a single Jew will raise a hand in violence against a Muslim.

Get overselves.