http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4688466.stm Interesting: an Iranian paper is holding a contest for Holocaust cartoons in “retaliation” (BBC’s word) for the cartoons depicting Muhammad. The paper, Hamshahri, says it’s more about probing potential free-speech inconsistencies (which is plausible in theory, at least). Jyllands-Posten has already said it will reprint the cartoons—will the other papers follow suit? (Will it be legal for them to do so? A lot of countries in Europe have specific anti-Nazi laws (governing the sale of memorabilia, at least). Is it legal to deny the Holocaust, say?) 13:49
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Entry Posted February 9, 2006
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… lesbian life-style - which probably means that the Cheney family now finds itself on God’s hit list as well. Meanwhile, that honorary Republican fundamentalist, president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, mounted his hobby-horse again. No, not anothercartoon competition. Since that tasteless escapade didn’t lead to bloody riots, he probably will not bother with another one of those. (He must have been sadly disappointed though that those war-mongering infidels weren …
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