For a further perspective on the Iran Holocaust cartoon “competition”, Sarah Honig at JPost has a worthwhile article:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395426402&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Everone always says the main lesson of the Holocaust is never again. Thats great but never again seems to happen way to often. My main lesson from the Holocaust is I’m not going out like punk. I got a .357 magnum for any anti-semite that wants a piece of me. As I said, bring it on.

And all the “liberal” media and blogs think that they should publish whatever dreck the Iranians put out – to show that “we all believe in freedom of speech, y’know”!

What’s even more concerning is that some conservative blogs (e.g. Tim Blair) have said “bring it on, we’ll publish whatever cartoons you print”. This is a dangerous approach unless handled with great care – freedom of speech has to be anchored in individual responsibility.

If (as predicted) the cartoons are Jew-hate pictures, then thinking media should decline to publish them, on the grounds of decent people’s distaste for hate literature. After all, the mainstream media declines to publish a lot of stuff – everyday. And anyway, there’ll always be the fringe media, who’ll publish anything sensational if they think it’ll make them a dollar.

And as several of your posters have pointed out the whole cartoon cycle is a fraud – Danish media upsets Muslims (by portraying Mohammed) who respond with violence and fatwas, so Muslims feel they have a reciprocal right to defame Jews in response, attempt to undermine their status in Western countries, and deny Israel’s legitimacy by lampooning the Holocuast.

That seems a fair tit for tat (not!).

PS. There’s a reason that European countries and Israel have laws against Holocaust denial – it’s because all have been affected by the scourge of the swastika and, as extermination of the Jews saw a central plank in Nazi ideology, Holocaust denial was viewed by democratically elected Parliaments in Europe as a short step away from Nazi resurgence. So they passed a law against it – as well as against neo-Nazi parties, regalia, salutes etc.

Does anyone remember Zhara Kazemi, the Canadian photo journalist who was brutally raped and murdered for trying to take photographs at a womens prison in Iran?

Tom,

or how about this, on the left side cartoons from the Iranian press that were critical of the Iranian government and on the right side cartoon from the US press that were critical of the US government. At the bottom of the left column it will say “resulted in torcher and execution of cartoonists” and at the bottom of the right column it will say “resulted in cartoonists finding more employment”.

The problem is Islam itself, which, in its Iranian manifestation, sees a chance to rid the world of us Jews.

They’d also like to convert or kill Christians, but there’s far too many.

Enough. We should bomb their nuclear sites; at least set them back in their attempt to complete the Shoah which they denied happened in the first place.