The Wait Is Finally Over! Iran Unveils It's Holocaust Cartoon Exibit!

[EVILxxx]

TEHRAN, Iran — An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened Monday as Iran's response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a "myth" and saying Israel should be destroyed.

One cartoon by Indonesian Tony Thomdean shows the Statue of Liberty holding a book on the Holocaust in its left hand and giving a Nazi-style salute with the other.


Masoud Shojai, director of the host Caricature House, said a jury looked through 1,200 entries received after the contest was announced in February by the co-sponsor, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri.

It came following worldwide protests by Muslims against the Muhammad cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Many Muslims considered the cartoon offensive and a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.

Hamshahri said it wanted to test the West's tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The entries on display came from nations including United States, Indonesia and Turkey.


About 50 people attended the exhibition's opening.

"I came to learn more about the roots of the Holocaust and the basis of Israel's emergence," said 23-year-old Zahra Amoli.

The exhibition runs until Sept. 13 and the winner will receive US$12,000. The exhibition hall is next to the Palestinian Authority's embassy, which was Israel's diplomatic site in Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
-Foxnews.com

[outsyder]

And when there are no Jewish riots, won't they look like dickheads.


Either way, the thought of Iran trying to teach the world a lesson in free speech is just fucking hilarious.

[Criminal Rock]

Iranians hating Jews!? Who would of thunk it?...

[Brando @$$ Fat]

I say we go all out: make a cartoon of Muhammad being sodomized by Uncle Sam.

[outsyder]

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
I say we go all out: make a cartoon of Muhammad being sodomized by Uncle Sam.


Comedy Central would censor it. Bunch of assholes.

[someguy]

I would like to see these cartoons

[outsyder]

Well, it's been several days now, still no riots in the West.

Ho hum.

[EVILxxx]

I'm sure if someone went onto one of America's highest rated live shows and ripped up a picture of the Pope the streets would run red... oh wait.

[Jon Lyrik]

I want to make a short film in which Jesus, Moses, the Pope and Muhammad engage in an orgy, then invisible unicorns come in and light them all on fire and piss on the ashes, declaring themselves to be the true gods. I'll publish it on the internet and mail copies of it to my most personally despised world leaders and a few prominent fundamentalists here in the United States.

[electriclite]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
I'm sure if someone went onto one of America's highest rated live shows and ripped up a picture of the Pope the streets would run red... oh wait.


Well it was more like "the wind blew with shards of broken CDs and shredded liner notes"

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Originally posted by electriclite
Well it was more like "the wind blew with shards of broken CDs and shredded liner notes"

They did, I remember it.

[Joshmo]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
I'm sure if someone went onto one of America's highest rated live shows and ripped up a picture of the Pope the streets would run red... oh wait.

Yeah. we'll wait until you find out the dif' between broken cds and audience boos compared to streets running red with blood.. :rolleyes:

[EVILxxx]

I was being facetious. My point is that the incident I mentioned did happen and no violence resulted.

[EVILxxx]

And the winner is Morocco!

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran awarded a Moroccan artist Wednesday the top prize in an exhibition of cartoons on the Holocaust that has received international condemnation, including from U.N. chief Kofi Annan.

Meant to be a response to the Danish cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad that sparked rage among Muslims around the world, the exhibit appears inspired by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tirades calling for Israel to be destroyed.


Tehran has several times announced plans to host a conference to examine the scientific evidence supporting the Holocaust, dismissing it as exaggerated. Its most recent announcement came in September during Annan's visit to the Iranian capital, where he said he discussed the cartoon show with officials.

Abdollah Derkaoui received US$12,000 for his work depicting an Israeli crane piling large cement blocks on Israel's security wall and gradually obscuring Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. A picture of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp appears on the wall.

The mosque is Islam's third holiest site.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, next to the Palestinian Embassy, which was the Israeli diplomatic mission before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The exhibit curator, Masoud Shojai, said the contest will be an annual event.

"Actually, we will continue until the destruction of Israel," he said.

The display, comprising 204 entries from Iran and abroad, opened in August.

Carlos Latuff from Brazil and A. Chard from France jointly won the second prize of US$8,000 and Iran's Shahram Rezai received US$5,000 for third place.

Many Muslims considered the cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.

The Tehran daily Hamshahri, a co-sponsor of the exhibition, said it wanted to test the West's tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The entries on display came from nations including United States, Indonesia and Turkey.

-Foxnews.com

[echo_bravo]

Can we nuke these pricks yet?

[Criminal Rock]

no...

[Vong]

Originally posted by echo_bravo
Can we nuke these pricks yet?

That's your answer for everything.

[outsyder]

Ok, carpet bomb them with flaming Qu'rans smothered in poop.


Just as good, and a lot more incendiary.

[EVILxxx]

Outsyder, you are offending the Holocaust cartoonists.

[outsyder]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
Outsyder, you are offending the Holocaust cartoonists.


I wouldn't be me if I wasn't.;)

[Badbird]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
I'm sure if someone went onto one of America's highest rated live shows and ripped up a picture of the Pope the streets would run red... oh wait.

I saw that live. I was young and didn't get it. But I saw it.

As for these cartoons... sooo, they're "testing" our tolerance by making a joke about something they don't believe even happened?

...makes total sense.

[Scorpio24]

Originally posted by Vong
That's your answer for everything.

Don't be rediculous. He likes to threaten kicking people in the nuts also.

[echo_bravo]

Originally posted by Scorpio24
Don't be rediculous. He likes to threaten kicking people in the nuts also.

Yep. I am actually all for the "carpet bomb them with flaming Qu'rans smothered in poop" idea as well.

:D