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.
I guess the fact that it wasn’t Jewish newspapers that printed the original cartoons means little to the Iranians. Perhaps they just can’t come up with funny Danish cartoons.
The immaturity of the Muslim response to the Mohammed cartoons is rather striking – more like petulant preschoolers (with firebombs) than grown-up adults. How can they expect anyone to take them seriously?
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