LOL @ Irans Response To The Mohammed Cartoons...

[Lee]

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Teheran's conservative municipality.

He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.

"The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said.

Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain 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.

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel.

Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with "private individuals" offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Last week, the Iranian foreign ministry also invited British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Teheran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Mr Blair as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid".

Mr Blair also said Mr Ahmadinejad "should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe", to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators".

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117....html?from=rss

LMAO

Now we'll get to see how things are supposed to work when a newspaper publishes a cartoon. I mean really, who cares, its just a damned cartoon LOL

Its not like 'the west' is going to start rioting over these damned things.

Regards,

Lee

[rhys]

speak for yourself!

i think i'll strap on the ol' suicide belt that i have hanging in my closet for occasions such as this and go blow up ... oh i dunno.... maybe some pink flamingos. after all everyone KNOWS that they actually control the world's media!

[Squirt]

LMAO

Now we'll get to see how things are supposed to work when a newspaper publishes a cartoon. I mean really, who cares, its just a damned cartoon LOL

Its not like 'the west' is going to start rioting over these damned things.

The Arabs have been publishing anti scemetic cartoons in their papers for YEARS now, this is nothing new. Here is a link to just the toons AlJazeerah has been printing the last 3 years. Notice the one they printed on Dec 25th.

I think the Muslims and Christians are gearing up to goto slaughter again, it's very obvious. Being non religious I have to say that I hope the Christians win. The Muslims and their hanging people, cutting off the hands of thieves, cutting innocent peoples throats, covering up women head to toe, blowing up innocent people, etc. it's all so creepy, archaic, and childish. This "insulting cartoon = destruction and rioting" is the straw that broke the camels back for me. What do you guys think?