Iran Holocaust Cartoon Watch: Iran’s Hamshahri Newspaper Holds Cartoon Contest

ASSociated Press: Iran Paper Holds Holocaust Cartoon Contest

An Iranian newspaper’s contest for Holocaust-related cartoons has drawn entries from 200 people, with some drawings mocking the World War II slaughter: One entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline.

Most contest entrants are Iranian, but six are Americans, and a few cartoons have been submitted from as far away as Indonesia and Brazil, according to the Hamshahri newspaper. A few of the drawings have been posted online.

Hamshahri began the contest last month as a test of the West’s readiness to print cartoons about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The contest, which runs through May 15, comes in response to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests across much of the Muslim world.

One submission reflects the opinion of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew international outrage last year when he said the Holocaust was a myth.

The cartoon, by Iranian Firouzeh Mozafari, shows a circle of nine Jewish men entering and leaving a gas chamber that shows a counter reading “5,999,999,” implying that Jews have inflated the number of Holocaust victims.

OK, so Flap has printed some of the cartoons…..

If the reader wants more Holocaust cartoons, the Hamshahri cartoon website is here.

For Flap it is just another day of “FREE” political expression……although I do NOT agree.

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