Iranian Newspaper To Run Contest for Holocaust Cartoons

In what has to be one of the most rediculous things I've heard of in a long time, a leading newspaper in Tehran is going to sponsor a cartoon contest about the Holocaust. From the News.com.au via RightNation.

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.

The Iranian Islamists are proving once again that they are seriously out of step with the world and brazenly ignorant of western thought.

What the Islamists fail to understand is that we have already witnessed the offensive acts of Muslims. What is more disgusting than the bombings and murdering of innocents? What is more offensive than the celebrations in the Muslim streets when a disaster befalls innocents? We've already seen the editorial comments of fascist Muslim fundamentalists on the placards carried around the world in the recent riots. We've already heard Ahmadinejad declare the Holocaust was a myth and that Israel needs to be annhiliated. How is a cartoon contest going to farther offend my sensibilities?

Nope, I say, bring on the cartoon contest. It will simply reinforce the world's growing disdain over the cancer of fanatic Islamists. As far as I'm concerned, the disdain is long overdue, and whatever little help these cartoons can provide, I'm all for it.