Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons

 

Iran's largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

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

 

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.

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Would somebody please put a sock in this guys mouth!
 
 

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