TEHRAN - Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
The daily paper Hamshahri said the contest was designed to test the boundaries of free speech -- the reason given by many European newspapers for publishing the cartoons of the Prophet.
A Danish newspaper first published the cartoons in September, and newspapers in Norway and a dozen other countries reprinted them last month.
Reuters, February 7, 2006
Muslim Cartoon Fury Claims Lives
Some 200 protesters took to the streets in the Afghan capital Kabul.
At least five people have been killed in Afghanistan as demonstrations against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad swept across the country.
Two people died when protesters turned on the American airbase at Bagram, even though the US has had no involvement in the cartoons' publication.
"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.
BBC, February 6, 2006
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Iran Daily Holds Contest For Holocaust Cartoons
By: Pete Kendall, February 7, 2006 |
The coming trend of negative social psychology will be characterized primarily by polarization between and among various perceived groups, whether political, ideological, religious, geographical, racial or economic. The result will be a net trend toward anger, fear, intolerance, disagreement and exclusion, as opposed to the bull market years, whose net trend has been toward benevolence, confidence, tolerance, agreement and inclusion. ... Xenophobia will be practiced regardless of people’s generally good intentions, because fear and hatred become pervasive in major bear markets regardless of whether or not they are justified.
At The Crest of the Tidal Wave |
| I’ve highlighted two important points from the articles. The first is the date of the cartoons actual issuance, which was back in September. It took a downturn in social mood, as reflected in the stock averages, to trigger the "growing global crisis" of the last few days. Also, At the Crest pointed out before the fact that the circumstances surrounding the disagreements wouldn’t necessarily be relevant – “fear and hatred become pervasive whether or not they are justified.” This is being borne out by the targeting of riots against the U.S., which, as the article points out, "has no involvement in the publication of the cartoons in question." |
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