Iranian institutions to hold cartoon contest on The Holocaust

[microrobert]

Iranian institutions to hold cartoon contest on The Holocaust

TEHRAN -- Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex plan to hold another international contest on the theme of Holocaust denial in the near future.

The 2nd International Holocaust Cartoons Contest has been organized in protest against French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s recent publication of the cartoons insulting Prophet Muhammad (S), the secretary of the contest, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii, said in a press conference on Saturday.

Shojaei-Tabatabaii, who is also the director of Iran’s House of Cartoon, added that world cartoonists are asked to submit their works before the first day of April.

The first place winners will receive a cash prize of $12,000, the second place will have $8000 and the third $5000.

The top selected works will mainly go on show at the Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran and several other locations across the city.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/121284-iranian-institutions-to-hold-cartoon-contest-on-the-holocaust

[wvwvw]

They would have a point if they had made fun of judaism, but making fun of genocide victims is very low.

Prophet Muhammad is a concept based on a book. Noone is obliged go believe it or accept it. Furthermore according to that book Muhammad was the perpetrator of genocide. (He wiped out a whole Jewish tribe)

On the other hand, Jews are real people who suffered a genocide. Making fun of their religion is acceptable, making fun of their suffering, or the suffering of any human being is not.

Beliefs don't have to be respected, people do.

In any case there are plenty of cartoons circulating on the internet making fun of the Jewish holocaust but we have yet to see any Jew reacting the way Muslims do.

[Arrow Cross]

Excellent. I'm looking forward to browsing the entries.

[Musso]

Both drawing cartoons to deny the holocaust and to insult one's prophets are insulting. Why not make non-insulting cartoons?

[Kabul]

lel

[Methmatician]

They would have a point if they had made fun of judaism, but making fun of genocide victims is very low.

Prophet Muhammad is a concept based on a book. Noone is obliged go believe it or accept it. Furthermore according to that book Muhammad was the perpetrator of genocide. (He wiped out a whole Jewish tribe)

On the other hand, Jews are real people who suffered a genocide. Making fun of their religion is acceptable, making fun of their suffering, or the suffering of any human being is not.

Beliefs don't have to be respected, people do.

In any case there are plenty of cartoons circulating on the internet making fun of the Jewish holocaust but we have yet to see any Jew reacting the way Muslims do.
Many Iranians don't believe the holocaust happened, so to them it's just an idea being mocked.

[Pahli]

Many Iranians don't believe the holocaust happened, so to them it's just an idea being mocked.

Because their government is feeding the population with lies

[StonyArabia]

Because their government is feeding the population with lies

As usual nothing new or strange about this.

[N1019]

As usual nothing new or strange about this.

Yep, business as usual...

If the death of up to 6 million people is accepted as a myth while the story of Mohammad is accepted as absolute fact, it's no surprise... and $12,000 is a lot of money for the average Iranian.

Of course, the rest of the world is free to respond to such acts as they see fit. No doubt a few more senior Iranian military personnel will get their heads blown off supporting Assad, Hezbollah and Hamas...

[microrobert]

Israel asks UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest

Competition in 2 months to offer 1st-place prize of $12,000 for drawing on Shoah denial

Israel called on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and on UN member countries to condemn an international cartoon contest on Holocaust denial hosted by Iran which is set to take place in two months.

“The contest legitimizes Holocaust denial and encourages those who deny the Shoah to continue with their incitement,” Israeli ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, wrote in a letter released Saturday.

The competition is organized by Iranian organizations that have said it comes in response to the controversial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last month.

Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex are organizing The Second International Holocaust Cartoons Contest, Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii, the contest’s secretary, announced in a press conference earlier this month, according to the Tehran Times. (http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/121284-iranian-institutions-to-hold-cartoon-contest-on-the-holocaust-)

Shojaei-Tabatabaii, who is also the director of Iran’s House of Cartoon, added that contestants will be asked to submit their drawings before April 1.

The winner will receive a cash prize of $12,000, with those in second and third place taking home $8,000 and $5,000 respectively.

The announcement marks the second time such a contest is being held.

After the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Postens caused controversy throughout the Muslim world in 2005 by publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet, the two organizers held a competition calling for contestants to draw cartoons denying the Holocaust or comparing it to the plight of the Palestinians.

According to the organizers, the contest was meant to challenge perceived Western double standards on free speech.

“Why is it acceptable in Western countries to draw any caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, yet as soon as there are any questions or doubts raised about the Holocaust, fines and jail sentences are handed down?” Shojaei-Tabatabaii said to the Observer in 2006.

The winner of the previous contest (http://irancartoon.com/120/holocaust/index.htm), Abdellah Derkaoui of Morocco, drew an Israeli crane erecting a wall around the Dome of the Rock. The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is featured on the wall.

Top works from the upcoming competition will be displayed at the Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran and several other locations throughout the Iranian capital.


http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-asks-un-to-condemn-iran-holocaust-cartoon-contest/#ixzz3SOnfIYj9

[AndreasMeyer]

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Yes, rather show it to be a lie with facts:

https://archive.org/details/AuschwitzWarumDieGaskammernEinMythosSind

[Wadaad]

Caricature is fruity French froo-froo...they should have ANNUAL CLINICAL CONFERENCE INVITING ACADEMICS AND HISTORIANS DEMONSTRATING THE FOLLY.

I really dont care about holocaust denial or if it really happened anymore
I really dont care about 9/11

BUT I support 'truther theories' because any self-doubt on the official narrative will chisel away at a power and patriotism of a people. The truth movement did alot of damage to the American psyche...hosting academic holocaust conferences would do the same to Zionists. Middle Easterners need to be more sinistro, less dextro

[7eleven]

I hope ISIS destroys Iran.

[N1019]

I hope ISIS destroys Iran.

lol destorying Iran single-handedly might be beyond their abilities, but ISIS really could mark the beginning of the end for the current regime in Iran

[StonyArabia]

Iran should spend that money to tackle the inner ills that effect her.

[RaDsTeR]

They would have a point if they had made fun of judaism, but making fun of genocide victims is very low.


You know what I see as low? Insulting a vunerable, consistently demonized, targeted minority and everything they believe in, who have little-to no representation in our societies both in the media and in politics, and making fun because they are different or other.

As much as I dislike this utter crap the Iranian government is feeding it's people, asking people to draw cartoons is simply free speech. I may not like what they have to say but they have a right to say it. You might say it's wrong as this is borderline hate speech. Prove to me that you didn't engage in the Je Suis Charlie campaign and maybe I'll agree with you, because otherwise you're a hypocrite. There are other ways to support free speech other than supporting a magazine that published offensive cartoons.

Charlie Hebdo planned to run cartoons depicting Moses in explicit circumstances but it was pulled by the editor who remarked, "don't even think about it, the backlash will be incredibly fierce, we'll anger millions of people". If you believe in free-speech, at least show some consistency.

In an ideal world, people would realise that free-speech is not just a right it's a responsibility ; and one that should be exercised wisely and with caution. Unfortunately, people seem to think that free-speech means *say whatever you want because you feel it*, and this is now the common definition. Realise that during WWII the British Press self-censored themselves by not reporting British failures on the mainland in order to preserve the morale of the British people. The media lack this self-censorship and responsibility that they had in the old days.

Just because someone farts in an elevator and we all feel sorry for the guy next to him, we don't all fart in solidarity.

[Pahli]

I hope ISIS destroys Iran.

The Iranians themselves should destroy the government and everyone affiliated with it

[N1019]

You know what I see as low? Insulting a vunerable, consistently demonized, targeted minority and everything they believe in, who have little-to no representation in our societies both in the media and in politics, and making fun because they are different or other.

As much as I dislike this utter crap the Iranian government is feeding it's people, asking people to draw cartoons is simply free speech. I may not like what they have to say but they have a right to say it. You might say it's wrong as this is borderline hate speech. Prove to me that you didn't engage in the Je Suis Charlie campaign and maybe I'll agree with you, because otherwise you're a hypocrite. There are other ways to support free speech other than supporting a magazine that published offensive cartoons.

Charlie Hebdo planned to run cartoons depicting Moses in explicit circumstances but it was pulled by the editor who remarked, "don't even think about it, the backlash will be incredibly fierce, we'll anger millions of people". If you believe in free-speech, at least show some consistency.

Just because someone farts in an elevator and we all feel sorry for the guy next to him, we don't all fart in solidarity.

Muslims are free to draw cartoons and deny the holocaust etc. and others are free to ridicule them for doing it. They're not going to respond with massacres - I hope.


The Iranians themselves should destroy the government and everyone affiliated with it

I wish... the enigma that is Iran... but maybe that's where ISIS can be of help.

[microrobert]

Iran Holocaust cartoon contest receives hundreds of submissions

Over 300 artists from Iran and countries such as France, China sent in entries for controversial competition

Hundreds of people from Iran and around the globe submitted entries for the Islamic Republic's Second International Holocaust Cartoon Contest, a competition official announced Monday.

"839 artworks have also been sent to the secretariat, 686 of them have been sent to the cartoon section and 153 more are related to caricature section," Secretary Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii told the semi-official Fars News Agency, marking the second time since 2006 that the country has held the controversial contest, which makes light of the killing of 6 million Jews in Europe during WWII.

Organizers launched the cartoon contest centered on the theme of Holocaust denial in late January in response to French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's decision to publish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Shojaei-Tabatabaii said that a total of 312 artists had submitted works for the contest, including 104 Iranian artists as well as 208 artists from foreign countries such as Brazil, France, Turkey and China.

In February, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, demanded that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN member countries condemn Iran's planned international cartoon contest on Holocaust denial.

“This contest legitimizes Holocaust denial and encourages Holocaust deniers to continue their incitement,” Prosor said. “It ridicules one of the darkest events in human history, and it cheapens the death of millions of Jews who were murdered. The horrors of the Holocaust are still fresh in the collective memory.”

"The cartoon exhibition runs in contravention to the international community’s decision to perpetuate the memory of the Holocaust and to internalize its lessons," he wrote.

"If the UN wishes to remain loyal to its founding principles and values in which it believes, it is incumbent upon it to speak loudly against anti-Semitism," Prosor concluded.

The winner of the contest will receive a $12,000 cash prize and their cartoon will be shown at the Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran. Second and third place finalists will receive $8,000 and $5,000, respectively.

The first such contest was held in 2006, following Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed. At the time, it drew 1,200 submissions from all over the world.

Moroccan artist Abdellah Derkaoui won the contest with a cartoon depicting a crane emblazoned with a Star of David constructing a wall around Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque. The wall formed a black-and-white photograph of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.


http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/66881-150407-iran-holocaust-cartoon-contest-receives-hundreds-of-submissions