[Vision2020] Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons

[Pat Kraut]

The jews have nothing to do with the danes newspapers...but for most nations in the middle east it is ALL about the jews...always...no matter how hard we try to make it different. 
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  From: Dick Schmidt 
  To: Vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:27 AM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons


  These people lost their right to have these cartoons published around the world because they rioted all over the place and caused a lot of damage.

  Dick Schmidt

  Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons
  From: Agence France-Presse 
  From correspondents in Tehran

  February 07, 2006 

  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. 

  Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated. 

  Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel. 


  Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with "private individuals" offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. 
  Last week, the Iranian foreign ministry also invited British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Teheran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Mr Blair as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid". 

  Mr Blair also said Mr Ahmadinejad "should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe", to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators". 



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