Moroccan wins best Holocaust cartoon

Wow, this must be serious if even the Kofi Cup is unhappy about it. Still, this cartoon sounds rather mild-I would have expected something far worse to win top prize.

Does this mean we can attack Morrocan embassies now?

What's Masoud Shojai's address? I've just drawn up a film script, it's a rewrite of Animal Farm with a zany new twist (no, not the Orwell version). Most of the scenes won't be legal to shoot in the EU or States, but that's OK coz it's set in modern day Tehran...

But the point is one that Muslims often make, "Well, this doesn't prove that Islam is not the religion of peace. Quite the contrary, this proves that Christians and Jews don't stand up for their God, and that we Muslims are verydedicated to defending the one true god."

A moving target, as usual.

But the point is one that Muslims often make, "Well, this doesn't prove that Islam is not the religion of peace. Quite the contrary, this proves that Christians and Jews don't stand up for their God, and that we Muslims are very dedicated to defending the one true god."

A moving target, as usual.

Moral equivalence alert: this cartoon competition has led to no riots, no killings, nothing.

What really worries me though, Robert, and this comment of yours is perfect riposte, but also, 'this cartoon competition has led to no laugh riot around the world like the original one evoked!' Looks to me like the Moslems don't take their own cartoons seriously enough. With dollars like that to pass around, I'd have expected some folk at least to be rolling in the streets of Teheran with laughter.

And I thought cartoons were meant to be funny! Or I did miss something here. Wait a minute, I got it!

They hope to destroy Israel with their holocaust cartoon bomb, Islam's greatest invention after the holy jihad! And no doubt they were inspired to see the image of the Holy Prophet with the bomb in his turban. Christianity, even by default, never ceases to inspire Islam, following in the footsteps of Mahommet.

The Danish Prophet with his cartoon bomb will be invoked by generations of future jihadis, just like Abraham, Moses and Jesus!

"Actually, we will continue until the destruction of Israel," he said.
-- from the article above

Short, pithy, to the point. And perfectly truthful. Won't get any disagreement from members of the Arab League, and certainly not from Mahmoud Abbas and the other Jizyah-eager converts to the Slow Jihad. For them, as for the Fast Jihad proponents such as Haniyah of Hamas and Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of iran, it is the same goal.

Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling Hamas that it is the arrival, not the length of the journey, that mattres (and besides, they are only differing on a decade or two of waiting). And the Western world, eager to avert its eyes, willing with unseemly haste to throw Israel to the wolves, keeps avoiding the issue of Muslim jurisprudence, of the necesaary Muslim refusal to contemplate the continued existence of an Infidel sovereign state anywhere, but above all on land that was once under Muslim control (which is why Israel, India, Spain, the Balkan countries, Bulgaria, Rumania, Sicily all are first on the list -- but hardly manage to exhaust that To-do List of all those who believe in the Jihad, which is to say, a great many of the world's Muslims.

And since demographic conquest and aggressive, well--funded and cleverly-targetted campaigns of Da'wa in the countries of Western Europe are now making up for the inability of Muslim states to mount a direct military attack (though acts of terror unsettle, and soften up governments that become less willing to take strong counter-measures), it may be that some of the places on that Muslim "To Do" list will remain still unconquered and insubmissive even as other places, such as France or England, succumb.

"Abdollah Derkaoui received US$12,000 for his work depicting an Israeli crane piling large cement blocks on Israel's security wall and gradually obscuring Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. A picture of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp appears on the wall."
-- from the article above

From its description, this prize-winner does not appear to be any different from all sorts of vicious anti-Israel cartoons that routinely appear in the Western media: mockery of the security wall, false analogies with Nazi Germany (with the Israelis of course being the new Nazis, and the "Palestinians" being, of course, the "new Jews" -- this is the favorite trope of the antisemites who find a respectable outlet, or at least a semblance of camouflage, for their antisemitism in supposed "outrage" over Israel's supposed misdeeds against the suppsed "Palestinians").

Give The Guardian's cartoonists, give those in the French and Belgian and Spanish and Swedish presses, a collective Honorary Prize.

If this Moroccan deserves it, then so do they.

Once again, the Muzzies play the joke upon themselves.

"The cartoon shows the mosque being replaced by Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp."

Islam is a concentration camp for its followers.

The cartoon depicts a mosque which is actually is a concentration camp. No Nazis, just Muslims.

God willing, of course.

"The cartoon shows the mosque being replaced by Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp."

But I thought the Holocaust was a myth?

Gabriel_the_American
For moving targets, I recommend a shotgun, 12 ga., 3 in. shells loaded with #6's.

poetcomic1-

Hell, the winner probably took a Streicher cartoon and altered it a little. Those idiots show little originality-except in ways to kill infidels.

If the Iranian cartoon sponsored exhibit is a response to the Danish cartoon mocking the prophet of most intorelable religion on earth as a terrorist that's great, because in the end we all can laugh our head off about how silly and mundane things are. I wish the art of making cartoon of one another would be a possible response to ease the current tension. But we all know that muslims terribly lack a sense of humor about life, let alone about their religious beliefs. If they had a speck of sense of humor, they would see how futile they reacted all this time for anything under the sun they believed to be disrespectfull of their religion.

Another thing. What is the connection between the Danish cartoons and the seemingly self-righteous and politically correct cartoon displaying a dispearing El-Aksa mosque and the holocaust. It is not even funny. Why is it called a cartoon. Iranian should have perhaps pocked fun at Moses or some religio-historical figures (oh no, that cannot be, I forgot, Moses has been usurped as a muslim from the onset, Go figure!!). The Koran has already decided that all the kings and prophetes (Abraham, Moses, Joseph, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Ezekiel and many others) whose names appear only in passing, are muslims anyway. What a nice and convenient way to connect Islam with the legendary prophets, in order to give it some historical legitimacy. Plagiarism was part of the ancient game of creating beliefs, I guess.

Due to islam's stuck up nature due to the lack of humor, that leaves them only the modern statesmen who were instrumental in the creation of modern state of Israel, to pock fun at. But they are not creative enough. The political leaders, MPs, IDF defense ministers have been a staple subject of cartooning in all major Arab newspapers since 1960's. And they were funny, because they were so kish.

An above poster thinks this cartoon sounds mild. There is absolutely no comparison whatsoever between Auschwitz and what Israel is doing to defend itself and fight for its life. This cartoon and the others that are a constant in the Muslim world are a despicable outrage and an insult to humanity because they lie and distort, they deny, negate history and enormous human suffering. Anyone who has informed themselves about the Holocaust and knows the details....and it's all in the details....can see and recognise what an abomination this is, the product of the very same irrational hatred that brought about the Holocaust in the first place. The west should be ashamed of itself for not actively resisting this heinous ideology that is threatening humanity.

johndoe-

You are indeed right. I've seen far worse cartoons than the "winner". Comapred to other filth that appears in the Islamaniac world's "newspapers" this one would be mild. It's no surprise that Iran, headed by A-Nut (the formost Holocaust denier) would sponsor this idiocy. But then again, what can one expect from a nation run by dirty old perverts and pigs?

Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling Hamas that it is the arrival, not the length of the journey, that mattres (and besides, they are only differing on a decade or two of waiting). And the Western world, eager to avert its eyes, willing with unseemly haste to throw Israel to the wolves,

To counter that strategy Israel must open accession talks to the EU. They may have to hold their noses while they do. But they'd be throwing a huge monkey wrench into the plans of the mo's.

I could spend 10 minutes and come up with something better. At least the Danish cartoons were witty (for the most part.)

It's surprisingly difficult to find an image of the winning cartoon. I finally found it here:

http://gopvixen.blogs.com/gop_vixen/iran_insanity/index.html

Here's a quote detailiing the cartoonists' "noble feelings":

"In the closing ceremony of the event, Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad-Hossein Saffar Harandi said artists from Iran and all around the world displayed their noble feelings.

Saffar Harandi said, 'Expressing hatred towards the hated figures of Zionism and their masters, is a sign of love for the victims of Zionism.'"
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This pretty much makes things clear. As repellant as Holocaust denial is, what these cartoons really are about is anti-Semetism in general (and by this I mean anti-Jewishness--nobody really cares that most Arabs are also Semetic peoples). I also agree that while the message of this cartoon is ugly and false, it is hardly the goriest or most over-the-top image. Others include things like Israelis eating "Palestinian" children.

As I said, it's hard to find images of these cartoons, although the contest apparently drew more than 200 entries. A weirdly large number seem to involve pictures of Ariel Sharon in Hell. Guess no one told them that he's no longer in power.

Since the Islamists apparently believe in "tit for tat" in the cartoon arena, I suggest an annual Mohammad cartoon event to follow their annual holocaust denier cartoons.

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Wasn't Auscchwitz (sp?) built to keep Jews IN, as opposed to keeping Jew-killers out?

And this is the guy who won?

Makes one wonder if the loosing cartoons were even more irrational, or, given the psychological dynamics over there, maybe less so.

Maybe the last place cartoon was a witty and insightful masterpiece of black yet somehow compelling humor, lost forever to history.

I think a European government should sponsor an Armenian Genocide cartoon contest.

THAT would be a hoot.