This seems like a revenge a pouty 13 year old girl would do to another 13 year old girl who dissed her in front of her friends.
Do these people actually think that "westerners" are going to riot and kill people because of some stupid cartoons they make in retaliation?
They can freely write anything they like about our prophet, but if one raises doubts about the Holocaust he is either fined or sent to prison," he added.
Link?
Holocaust cartoon fair opens in Iran
1 hour, 25 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) - An international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust opened in Tehran in response to the publication in Western papers last September of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
"We staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in," Masoud Shojai, head of the country's "Iran Cartoon" association and the fair organizer, said.
"They can freely write anything they like about our prophet, but if one raises doubts about the Holocaust he is either fined or sent to prison," he added.
"Though we do not deny that fact that Jews were killed in the (second world) war, why should the Palestinians pay for it?" Shojai told the opening ceremony of the month-long fair in Tehran's Palestine Contemporary Art Museum.
He added that around 1,100 cartoons were submitted by participants from more than 60 countries and that more than 200 are on show.
He said the top three cartoons will be announced on September 2, with the winners being awarded prizes of 12,000, 8,000 and 5,000 dollars respectively.
Shojai did not elaborate on the source of the prize money, but emphasized that it did not come from any governmental body.
The fair is being staged by
Iran Cartoon and the country's largest selling newspaper Hamshahri newspaper, which is published by Tehran's conservative municipality.
The contest was announced in February in a tit-for-tat move after caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed were first printed in Denmark and then picked up and published worldwide, enraging Muslims.
Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionists, who maintain that the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews and other groups during World War II was either invented or exaggerated.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also prompted international anger by dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth" used to justify the creation of
Israel.
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They can freely write anything they like about our prophet, but if one raises doubts about the Holocaust he is either fined or sent to prison," he added.
Holocaust denial is illegal in eleven European countries: Austria (article 3h Verbotsgesetz 1947), Belgium (Belgian Negationism Law), the Czech Republic under section 261, France (Loi Gayssot), Germany (§ 130 (3) of the penal code) also the Auschwitzlüge law section 185, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland (article 261bis of the Penal Code). In addition, under Law 5710-1950 it is also illegal in Israel.
The following punishments are used with regards to Holocaust Denial Laws: Austria (min: six months, max: twenty years (violent), ten years (non-violent)), Belgium (min: fine, max: one year), Czech Republic (min: six months, max: two years), France (min: fine/one month, max: two years), Germany (min: fine/six months max: five years), Israel (min: one year, max: five years), Lithuania (min: fine/two years, max: ten years (violent)), Poland (min: fine/three months, max: three years), Romania (min: six months, max: three years (public offender), five years (public servant offender)), Slovakia (min: fine/one month, max: three years) and Switzerland (min: fine/one year, max: fifteen months).
Coming soon to a republic near you.
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Kierland drop-kicking Wolftard wrote:
Aren’t you part of the silent generation?
Why don’t you just STFU.
I didn't notice any middle eastern countries on that list. Are they denied the freedom to express their opinions on the holocaust, too?
If not then he's full of shit.
Try and recall it's also against the law to burn the American flag here in America, but they do it all over the world without any repercussions at all.
I'd say they have more freedom of expression than their whining about the holocaust is taking into account.
Mister Bushice wrote:Try and recall it's also against the law to burn the American flag here in America,
No, it's not. Not yet, thank God, and not ever, if our legislators and citizens remember that enshrining a frigging flag as a sacred object involves changing not just the First Amendment but the First Commandment.
As far as laws in other nations that outlaw Holocaust denial - fucking stupid. Any nation - Canada and Euro nations included- that mouth the words "freedom of expression" while hypocritically outlawing that same freedom in the name of limp-wristed sensitivity are showing moral and intellectual cowardice.
THE BIBLE - Because all the works of all the science cannot equal the wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every animal species in the world lived within walking distance of Noah's house.
I guess it was drilled in to me so much as a kid that flag burning was so no bueno that I thought it was illegal.
Congress DOES keep trying, though, but the SC has shot them down several times.
However that fact doesn't alter that this dipshit with the cartoon contest is clueless about western freedoms. I hope every paper in the world prints the winning cartoons. It ought to be good for a laugh.
Of course, A good follow up would be a prophet cartoon contest. Then we could really compare responses.
