RE: Cartoon Contest

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        RE: [IP] Cartoon Contest]
Date:   Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:40:03 -0500
From:   Trei, Peter <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
To:     dave () farber net



Dave:

For IP, if you wish:

Peter Trei
(Disclaimer: The below represents only my personal 
opinion. It should not be construed to represent 
to position of any other person or institution).
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Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> wrote:

> > Iranian Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons
> > By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer
> >
> > ]TEHRAN, Iran - A prominent Iranian newspaper said Tuesday it would 
> > hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the 
> > West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi 
> > genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
> >
> > Hamshahri, one of     Iran's largest papers, made clear the contest 
> > is a reaction to European newspapers' publication of Danish cartoons
of 
> > the Prophet Muhammad, which have led to demonstrations, boycotts and 
> > attacks on European embassies across the Islamic world. Several people

> > have been killed
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iran_cartoons

> Geee ... sounds like what goes around DOES come around.

> Aside from that however, they seem severely myopic in focusing only 
> on the Holocaust ... when it's "Christians" who have used excuse 
> after excuse to invade Muslim lands and nations, to take whatever 
> was most valuable -- from the medieval crusades, to current adventures.

The editors of Hamshahri know what they're doing. Several
European countries lack the level of free speech found in the US;
in some (Germany comes to mind, maybe Austria) it is 
against the law to publish material denying the reality of the 
Holocaust, or to display Nazi emblems.

Undoubtedly, some or all of the submitted cartoons will do 
exactly that. They may not be legally publishable in
those countries (I don't know the exact specifics of the
laws), and if the papers in those countries refuse to publish
them, the Iranians will (with justification) cry "Hypocrisy".

The ideal solution would be for the involved governments to
issue a waiver to allow the cartoons to be published.

Peter Trei




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