BUT it’s just Ink on Paper
A Brazilian was the first to officially enter an Iranian newspaper’s contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, said Masoud Shojai, head of the contest secretariat, on Monday.
The contest was devised by Hamshahri, one of Iran’s top five newspapers, in response to publication in the West of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The newspaper said its contest was a test of the Western world’s readiness to print cartoons about the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews in World War II.
The first entry depicts a man, smoking a cigarette and wearing a blue and white striped prison uniform, with a tall wall and guard tower in the background.
The man, with a moustache, is wearing a white keffiyeh (fez) and has his right hand over his forehead and eyes.
On his chest is a red Muslim crescent with a letter “P”. Below that is the number 7 256, the significance of which was not immediately clear, although Israel is said to be holding about 8 000 Palestinian prisoners.
The Brazilian artist listed as the author of the cartoon could not be reached to confirm the entry was by him.
Soliciting anti-Semitic cartoons in the Arab World strikes me as redundancy squared. The Arab Press publishes anti-Jew cartoon after anti-Jew cartoon. For a blog that regularly publishes some of them, to shame his part of the world, consult The Religious Policeman is a good place.
“We don’t intend retaliation over the drawings of the prophet. We just want to show that freedom is restricted in the West,” said Davood Kazemi, executive manager of the contest and cartoon editor at the paper since 1992.
Urm. I won’t speak for anybody but my own nation, but… I don’t believe there is any governmental prohibition against publishing your asinine Holocaust cartoons. They may just not elect to do so. Please consult over here for a common, though not completely overpowering, attitude toward such offenses, for an Aaryan rally in front of the Lenin statue in Seattle’s Fremont district.
Overall, the demonstration failed to arouse the usual volley of epithets. Boyer says that his group was approached by hippies, lesbians, and a few Jews. “Most of them didn’t care,” says Boyer. “They said we have the right to free speech.” But it wasn’t a total loss. Boyer got the finger from a number of passing motorists, to which he responded (predictably) with the “Sieg Heil!” salute.
A countering attitude toward offense-givers is found with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In the main, I don’t understand the Holocaust Denial. You have two competing strands of thought. One: How great it was that Hitler killed Jews. Two: The Jews are lying that Hitler killed Jews. In the main, most Holocaust Deniers are semi-deniars, which is that The Holocaust is exaggerated, so I suppose at that point the two strands of thought are not strictly mutually exclusive. I find myself consulting Part Two of this collection of diatribes by a horrible person, and not understanding the whole “the Jews deserved what they got” / “You call it an extermination camp, but you know better” dichotomey.
Clever, that. Clever that.