Iran daily holds contest for Holocaust cartoons

we won't lose any friends over this, because we don't have any to lose.

The same Danish paper has said it's going to publish these cartoons on the same day the Iranian paper does.

That's retarded. There was one on Google News just the day before yesterday saying he was thrilled about doing it.

That worked....

Originally posted by TeldeIndus They've changed their minds. Danes' 'no' to Holocaust cartoons The top editor of the Danish newspaper whose cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad sparked outrage throughout the Islamic world said he would not print Holocaust cartoons offered by an Iranian newspaper. Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste said his newspaper Jyllands-Posten "in no circumstances will publish Holocaust cartoons from an Iranian newspaper." http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=203972006

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Mila i heared in the news yesterday that the danish newspaper refused to publish the iranian holocaust cartoons because they are/ will be  offensive.

 

 

I think its pointless for a paper to print something if its only goal is to offend.  Likewise I think knee-jerk reactions are equally if not more pointless.  Such as this story, likewise the euro papers re-printing just to make a point.

Ideally if a paper over steps its bounds in decency, consumers will write-in complaints and the paper will print a retraction if it sees its folly.

I feel that the Iranian paper is making a mistake with the cartoons.  First off its upset with a danish paper.  Who does it aim its anger toward?  holocaust victims.....Secondly it seems even more idiotic to sponsor a cartoon contest with the sole goal being offensiveness.  Third, I suspect it won't be a crude drawing of a historical figure, but graphic and vulgar, aimed at not-so old wounds.

I feel the comparison is a bit asymetrical, as the holocaust was a recent event that hurt real humans, many of which still alive today.  Printing something slanderous about Muhammed is a bit different, considering theres 1400 yrs of history. 

I'm not Muslim so it'd be hard for me to be in their shoes but the nearest comparison I can draw would be if a paper did a piece poking fun at or mocking Jesus.  I would perhaps be offended and write-in, but I would not call for re-tribution, especially at a target which had nothing to do with the cartoon in the first place.  I really think its a mis-placed projection.

Don't get me wrong I'm all for freedom of speech and press.  They can print it all they want, but i don't support it and if i lived there i wouldnt buy it.

 

It's one thing for an independent newspaper to print cartoons, but it's not an action that a government should be doing. Iran has the right to print them, and alot of muslims protesters are going to look foolish when no one is burning down embassys and issuing death threats over Iran's cartoons.

If Iran is to print these cartoons, then they are in effect condoning the west's right to print whatever they want. So, this makes the re-printing and even the creation of more mohammed cartoons all the more okay. How can Iran's government not see this? IF their goal is to rpevent mohammed cartoons from being made, then this is a horrible way of going about it.


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Originally posted by Illuminati If Iran is to print these cartoons, then they are in effect condoning the west's right to print whatever they want. So, this makes the re-printing and even the creation of more mohammed cartoons all the more okay. How can Iran's government not see this? IF their goal is to rpevent mohammed cartoons from being made, then this is a horrible way of going about it.

thats a good point.  They will lose any moral high ground, allowing westerner's to print as they please.

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Originally posted by azimuth Originally posted by lennel , described the competition as "deliberately inflammatory." so was the danish newspaper cartoons Eh, no, as repeated a gazillion times. I find it quite amazing a moderator is this stubborn.

well all you said "gazillion times" is that they didnt intend to offend people, i replied to your "gazillion times"  saying is that it doesnt make sense and i asked a few questions which you werent intersted enough to answer !!

the questions where, what do you think "testing limits" meant?

why after knowing that these material offended many people they still insist on saying its freedom of speach while for other pictures they say we cannot publish because they are offensive.

how can something be not offensive to them even though millions of people are protesting and saying it was offensive??

so tell me what did they mean by testing limits?

Originally posted by Styrbiorn Originally posted by azimuth Mila i heared in the news yesterday that the danish newspaper refused to publish the iranian holocaust cartoons because they are/ will be  offensive. Maybe they learnt a lesson. Even newspapers do that from time to time.

no they didnt learn anything, they still belive that they did not make anything wrong nor anything which requires any apology to.

 to them (newspaper) the Prophet cartoons werent offensive , and to them (newspaper) the holocaust cartoon ARE offensive.

well let them know this for a fact,

to us (many muslims) Holocaust cartoons IS NOT offensive and to us Prophet cartoons WERE offensive.

clear enough?

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thats what is hapening belive it or not, aknowledge it or not, thats what is hapening.

and iam not here to persuade you or anyone esle iam just stating what many do feel obviously they are protesting and saying how they feel.

as you are stating "facts" iam stating "facts"

have fun.