Buddy said:
mkrnhr said:
Are there any legit sources?
I'm searching and will be happy to post anything I can find.
mkrnhr said:
Also, there is a difference between mocking the holocaust religion as practiced today, and denying the holocaust (which is idiotic and ignorant).
Indeed, and I agree. I noted the difference between the topic title and the contents of the announcement obyvatel posted and just assumed everyone else did too, so I figured it wouldn't really be about 'denial' no matter who is involved.
I don't get any impression the Iranian gov't has anything officially to do with this, though, but like I said, I'm searching for evidence one way or the other...
These are a few links that are coming up on the contest ...
Iran To Host State-Sponsored Holocaust Denial Cartoon Contest
_http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/16/iran-to-host-state-sponsored-holocaust-denial-cartoon-contest/
Jan. 16, 2016 - Iran announced this week that authorities are hosting a state-sponsored contest to see who can create the best Holocaust denial cartoon. The grand prize has been boosted this year to $50,000, up from $12,000, according to reports.
Tehran will host the Holocaust denial cartoon event in June 2016, after gathering an expected hundreds of submissions from the Islamic world. Last year, Iran received 839 anti-Semitic cartoons for consideration.
The state-sponsorship of this event by the Tehran municipal authority is a new development this year, the reports said. And organizers say the competition was created to highlight the West’s supposed double-standard when its citizens draw Muhammad, who is not allowed to be caricatured in Islam.
Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, has contacted United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, calling for the international body to condemn the grossly anti-Semitic, state-sponsored contest.
“This anti-Semitic act represents the pure evil of the Iranian regime,” Danon expressed. “Denying the Holocaust is one of the most powerful expressions of anti-Semitism, which legitimizes the deaths of millions of Jews,” he added, reminding the UN leader that International Holocaust Remembrance Day is right around the corner, on January 27.
Iran Launches Third Holocaust Denial Cartoon Contest (4 cartoons)
_http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2016/01/14/iran-launches-third-holocaust-denial-cartoon-contest/
Jan. 14, 2016 - Organizers claim the purposed of the competition is designed to highlight the world’s double standard in defending caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, whose depiction is forbidden in Islam.
Israeli officials urge UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest
_http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-officials-urge-un-to-condemn-iran-holocaust-cartoon-contest/
Jan. 14, 2016 - The winning drawing of 2015 was of an Israeli crane erecting a wall around the Dome of the Rock. The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is featured on the wall in the cartoon, by Abdellah Derkaoui of Morocco.
The 2015 contest was condemned by the US State Department, officials in Israel and the Anti-Defamation League.
Iran has held a number of events questioning the Holocaust in the past, including a conference intended to prove the Shoah as exaggerated.
International Holocaust Cartoon Competition
_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Cartoon_Competition
The Hypocrisy of Iran's Holocaust Cartoon Contest
_http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/the-hypocrisy-of-irans-holocaust-cartoon-contest/385058/
Jan. 31, 2015 - This isn't the first time Iran has held this contest. After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Postens published cartoons depicting Muhammad in 2005, the two organizers held the first International Holocaust Cartoon contest, attracting over 1,200 submissions from around the world. The entries selected for recognition took two basic editorial positions. The first was that the Holocaust didn't happen at all. And the second was that even if it did, Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is hardly better. The first prize went to a Moroccan cartoonist named Abdellah Derkaoui, whose drawing featured an Israeli crane constructing a wall around Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. A concentration camp is painted on the wall.
The purpose of the contest, according to the organizers, is to highlight Western hypocrisy over the value of free speech. Following the attack on Charlie Hebdo, people around the world expressed solidarity through the ubiquitous "Je Suis Charlie" slogan, indicating a defense of the newspaper's right to satirize religious piety. Critics of the newspaper, though, pointed out that Muslims weren't offended by Charlie Hebdo's irreverent speech. They were instead insulted that white Parisians mocked religious values held by France's immigrant population, a group that has long been marginalized within French society. And according to Massoud Shojai Tabatabai, one of the organizers of the 2006 conference, the Western commitment to free speech doesn't always include denying the Holocaust, which remains a criminal offense in countries like Austria.
"Why is it acceptable in Western countries to draw any caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, yet as soon as there are any questions or doubts raised about the Holocaust, fines and jail sentences are handed down?" Tabatabai told The Observer that year.
But there's a difference between drawing an offensive caricature and participating in the negation of an established historical fact. And while Holocaust denial didn't begin with Iran, Tehran's contribution to the practice has been especially shameful. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president from 2005 to 2013, claimed that the Holocaust was a "myth" designed to protect the existence of Israel. In 2006, the year of the first cartoon contest, Tehran sponsored an international conference to "review the global vision of the Holocaust." Ahmadinejad's successor Hassan Rouhani acknowledged and condemned the Holocaust upon taking office in 2013, but neither he nor his suave, U.S.-educated Foreign Minister Mohammed Javed Zarif have expressed regret for their country's role in its denial. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and the man who controls the country's foreign policy, has called the Holocaust a "distorted historical event."
Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest arrives amid worsening anti-Semitism across Europe. In France, Jewish people comprise 1 percent of the population—yet they are the victims of almost 40 percent of all hate crimes in the country. Jewish community leaders say that nearly 100,000 French Jews have left the country since 2010, and many more have made plans to follow them. Two days after the Charlie Hebdo attacks triggered international outrage over terror attacks on free speech, Amedy Coulibaly took several hostages inside a Jewish grocery store. Six died, Coulibaly included, when police raided the store.
The Iranians who organized the cartoon contest believe that shunning Holocaust denial means Western commitment to free speech is shallow. The real hypocrisy, though, is that by the deliberate offense of the world's Jewish population, the cartoonists are mocking a group that in many ways is as threatened and marginalized as they are.
Obama Ally Iran Sponsors Holocaust Denial Contest
_http://www.worldjewishdaily.com/iran-holocaust-denial-contest.php
Jan. 17, 2016 - Shevat 7, 5776 - It's easy to come to the conclusion that Barack Obama has never had a real friend.
He keeps on telling us that Iran can be our international partner, the terror state that helps us fight other terror states. His secretary of state keeps on saying that diplomacy is getting us somewhere, even as Iran violates test bans on ballistic missiles and takes U.S. soldiers hostage. And he keeps on telling the Jewish community and Israel that all this rapprochement with the most destabilizing force in the world is actually good for them.
But how does he explain the fact that Iran, the new U.S. friend, is sponsoring yet again a Holocaust denial cartoon contest? Is that good for the Jewish people? Is denying another people's existence and pain a liberal value? Surely, the president will censure Iran in some way for this blatant hate.
Iran has announced that it will be holding a cartoon contest aimed at creating caricatures denying the Holocaust. This year, the contest's grand prize has been increased from $12,000 to $50,000. The contest, organized by the Teheran municipal authority, is calling for cartoonists worldwide to send in works denying and satirizing the Holocaust. Unlike previous contests of this kind, this one is especially significant due the fact that it is organized by official authorities of the Iranian capital, and has an international emphasis. The prize money is also several times what it was before.
Then again, it just might be that Barack Obama does not understand the definition of "friend." After all, he treats our true friends like enemies and our enemies like friends.
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