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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 Mohammed 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 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a “myth” and saying Israel should be destroyed.
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.
Masoud Shojai, director of the host Caricature House, said a jury looked through 1,200 entries received after the contest was announced in February by the co-sponsor, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri.
It came following worldwide protests by Muslims against the Mohammed cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Many Muslims considered the cartoon offensive and a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.
Hamshahri said it wanted to test the West’s tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The entries on display came from nations including United States, Indonesia and Turkey.
@emmalush wrote:
The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a “myth” and saying Israel should be destroyed.
Doesn’t the fact that “widespread condemnation” of the Iranian president last year demonstrate that a “backlash” is not the sole domain of Muslims
@emmalush wrote:
It came following worldwide protests by Muslims against the Mohammed cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Many Muslims considered the cartoon offensive and a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.
The cartoons were blasphemous to the Islamic religion not a violation of traditions……unless you are calling Islam a “tradition” and not a religion
@emmalush wrote:
Hamshahri said it wanted to test the West’s tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The entries on display came from nations including United States, Indonesia and Turkey.
The West has just as little tolerance for deniers of the Holocaust as Islam does for those who physically portray Mohammed in an art form, hence the jailing of David Irving in Austria and the strict laws in Germany on both the holocaust and the Nazi ideology.
The holocaust however is not a religion but an historical event (or rather series of events). The assumption from the Iranian president that this will demonstrate the West’s “hypocrisy” on matters contentious simply show he does not understand the holocaust and it’s place in history.
The holocaust is not a way of life as Islam is…The Koran defines the way a Muslim lives, acts, sleeps, prays etc etc…the Holocaust does not define the way we in the West live our lives.
The backlash will be one of condemnation and political trumpeteering but little else….and no, there won’t be thousands of people marching through London to demonstrate against the caricatures either
@slayer wrote:
The West has just as little tolerance for deniers of the Holocaust as Islam does for those who physically portray Mohammed in an art form, hence the jailing of David Irving in Austria and the strict laws in Germany on both the holocaust and the Nazi ideology.
I thought david irving was jailed by austrians, not the west, theres a difference, for his opinion of the jewish holocaust, not the holocaust. What is the holocaust?
It isnt illegal in England to deny the jewish holocaust. Were still allowed to deny something we dont believe happened, thats free speech.The holocaust however is not a religion but an historical event
All holocauts are.
The holocaust is not a way of life as Islam is…The Koran defines the way a Muslim lives, acts, sleeps, prays etc etc…the Holocaust does not define the way we in the West live our lives.
The backlash will be one of condemnation and political trumpeteering but little else….and no, there won’t be thousands of people marching through London to demonstrate against the caricatures either
Its very unlikely. And hopefully, it will show the muslims that there were wrong to protest, although i expect they will go blind when the news comes on…
Austria is in the West! It is part of Western Europe and, like Germany, is considered as part of the “West”
The references you make in the first post are about the Iranian cartooon display which is specifically about the Holocaust during WW2 involving largely Jewish communities (hence the Iranian interest)- hence I’m not sure why the semantics become involved in the 2nd post and the splitting hairs over which is and isnt the “holocaust”
Yes part, austria is not the west, big difference slayer…
I never wrote anything in the first post…apart from the headline.
When a few influential Muslims get irate, the poor feel obliged to join in, not because they are feeling the same way, but because it could be dangerous to not join in and burn flags etc.
Don’t take all you see on face value emma.
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