Double Standard Alert from Der Spiegel, . Of course, this should really come as no surprise. Islamic law specifies that dhimmis must not insult Islam or Muhammad (cf. 'Umdat al-Salik o11.10(5)), but it nowhere forbids Muslims from insulting non-Muslims.
Even as the Muslim world protests against the Muhammad caricatures printed in the West, a number of Arab newspapers publish virulently anti-Semitic cartoons. But nobody's paying much attention. After all, Jew baiting in the Arab world has become the norm.In the end, it was the image of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse that proved perhaps most offensive. After all, as the Web site of the Arab-European League -- a group supporting the rights of Arab and Muslim communities in Europe -- pointed out: "The issue for us is not about depicting the prophet or any other theological consideration. It's about stigmatizing a whole population of more than 1 billion Muslims through portraying their symbol as being a terrorist, megalomaniac, misogynic (sic) and a psychopath. This is racist, xenophobic and calling for hatred against Muslims."
That's a valid point. But it would have been a lot more forceful had the Web site not published a political cartoon a few days earlier depicting Anne Frank in bed with Adolf Hitler, who is looking amorously appeased. As if that wasn't offensive enough, the illustrator throws in one of the worst crimes in recent European history by name dropping Marc Dutroux, the convicted Belgian killer infamous for kidnapping young girls, raping them and then starving them to death. Hitler is saying, "Write this one in your diary Anne!"
Read it all.
The "Holocaust Cartoon" contest should be given attention, and Western newspapers should be happy to publish the results -- in order to show, of course, the level of the people we are now dealing with.
And the same day that any newspaper -- The New Duranty Times? The Bandar Beacon? -- decides to publish a dozen of the entries, of course including all the cartoons that the honorable judges (no doubt to be picked from all over the Muslim world, and perhaps special foreiginers, such as David Duke or Ernst Zundel, can also be invited to serve on the panel of judges) conclude have been positively the best, the most hilarious in their treatment of mass murder, those newspapers should also publish, at long last, the famous dozen Danish cartoons.
And let the wider public at long last be able to judge the nature of those cartoons which, so many tell us, were "provocative" and others tell us were "disgusting" (oh, you've seen them -- what do you think?) and compare them with those absolutely wunderbar examples that demonstrate what Albert Brooks apparently could not find -- that after all you can find humor in the Muslim world.
I still think one of the twelve original cartoons was of Bill Gates (glasses, pumpkin in turban) and not Mohammed. Redwood should be up in arms over this. The ummah of Microsoft shud be lighting up embassies over this trickery.
I've seen the Hitler/Frank cartoon. There's no comparison with the obscenity, depravity and hellish disregard for human feelings shown by this degraded drawing of an innocent, murdered child with the mildness of the Danish drawings of Muhammad, who brought death and destruction to millions -- no comparison at all.
Despite this sick attempt, nothing can detract from the courage and honour of Anne Frank.
Great post, Hugh. Let the sickest, most twisted effluent from the muslim/nazi mind be published, right alongside those silly Danish cartoons. With each passing day, more infidels are jolted awake from their slumber.......
You can safely bet that, in England, the Guardian will print any Iranian Holocaust cartoons that do emerge - but not the Danish ones: that would be offensive. The view that Jews are children of apes and pigs or, at least, don't have feelings worth bothering about is much too deeply entrenched there for any other viewpoint to be considered.
Remember that all of this Cartoon outrage is about RESPECT!
Respect for a Muslim is a one-way street - Respect Islam or else!
Respect for the West is a two-way street - live and let live.
Two totally different worldviews!
"...This is racist, xenophobic and calling for hatred against Muslims."
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Hanging a 'racist' label on everyone who dares to point out the short-comings of a set of practices deliberatly designed to promote ignorance and oppression is oppressive in itself.
It just goes to show how dumb these Muslims are.
They assault their own case as they gleefully bulldoze and level their own moral high ground.
We couldn’t have done a better job ourselves.
What will be interesting to see is: WHAT IN HELL IS A 'HOLOCAUST CARTOON'?
I seriously doubt the Iranian mullahs will be able to find any artists anywhere who could even come up with anything that would vaguely fill this absurdist bill, as the above-mentioned "Anne Frank in Bed With Hitler" image demonstrates.
That juxtaposition simply means nothing. Not historically, satirically, morally, or any other way. Are they implying that Anne Frank was killed because she refused Hitler's personal advances in bed? Then she still remains an heroic and pathetic victim. Do they mean that she seduced Hitler into killing 6 millions Jews? This also makes no sense, in any context whatsoever. She perished in a death camp. What is their joke?
And what could the joke possibly consist of?
Is Holocaust denial funny to anyone? (Other than about a dozen neo-Nazi microencephalic smegma-pickers in some rural cul de sac in the deep backwoods U.S.? (Cue: the banjo theme from "Deliverance".)
I'm dying to see what the Iranian cartoonists could come up with -that made the barest shred of any "sense"- (and I don't even mean "based on reality", but merely structured in the form a recognizable 'joke', with some kind of punchline).
6 millions Jews ducking down allies in Berlin to play hide and seek while Hitler counts to 1000 years?
The "Holocaust Cartoon" concept simply yields to no known kind of humor. You make fun of the bullies (like Mohammad or Hitler) not their victims, for a laugh.
No one chuckles at the image of a child being punched by a brute, But, if the child happens to duck to pick up a penny as the brute swings, and he ends up punching himself in the face, that elicits a chuckle.
The Iranians don't comprehend the essential meaning of comedy.
Except in their elections.
What will be interesting to see is: WHAT IN HELL IS A 'HOLOCAUST CARTOON'?
I seriously doubt the Iranian mullahs will be able to find any artists anywhere who could even come up with anything that would vaguely fill this absurdist bill, as the above-mentioned "Anne Frank in Bed With Hitler" image demonstrates.
That juxtaposition simply means nothing. Not historically, satirically, morally, or any other way. Are they implying that Anne Frank was killed because she refused Hitler's personal advances in bed? Then she still remains an heroic and pathetic victim. Do they mean that she seduced Hitler into killing 6 millions Jews? This also makes no sense, in any context whatsoever. She perished in a death camp. What is their joke?
And what could the joke possibly consist of?
Is Holocaust denial funny to anyone? (Other than about a dozen neo-Nazi microencephalic smegma-pickers in some rural cul de sac in the deep backwoods U.S.? (Cue: the banjo theme from "Deliverance".)
I'm dying to see what the Iranian cartoonists could come up with -that made the barest shred of any "sense"- (and I don't even mean "based on reality", but merely structured in the form a recognizable 'joke', with some kind of punchline).
6 millions Jews ducking down allies in Berlin to play hide and seek while Hitler counts to 1000 years?
The "Holocaust Cartoon" concept simply yields to no known kind of humor. You make fun of the bullies (like Mohammad or Hitler) not their victims, for a laugh.
No one chuckles at the image of a child being punched by a brute, But, if the child happens to duck to pick up a penny as the brute swings, and he ends up punching himself in the face, that elicits a chuckle.
The Iranians don't seem to comprehend the essential meaning of comedy.
Except in their elections.
Type key is playing hiccough.
Double posting is no joke.
I pity the Jyllands Posten editor who said he might publish some of the 'Holocaust cartoons' and was promptly chastised and sent on vacation.
He should have clarified why he might publish them: obviously not to promote anti-semitism but to warn the public about anti-semitism. That would be a legitimate purpose and one for which one can see anti-semitic cartoons in any history book dealing with the holocaust.
"What will be interesting to see is: WHAT IN HELL IS A 'HOLOCAUST CARTOON'?"
For a possible example see this story: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/682365.html, though it's more about a cartoon comparing the Israelis to the Nazis and, of course, there are millions of these about.