08-19-2019, 12:39 PM
Just a little FYI for readers of this thread.
The Holocaust Cartoon contest, sponsored in 2006 by the Teheran Newspaper Hamshahri, was a response to the Jyllands-Posten controversy of 2005, in which the Danish newspaper posted a set of political cartoons featuring Mohammed, in part (the Newspaper claimed) to further critique of Islamism within Islam.
The worldwide reaction to this publication (e.g., riots in Afghanistan) then raised the issue of press/speech freedom, which Muslim countries don't have but "the West" supposedly does.
Hamshahri presented the contest as a response to this issue, not to claim that Muslim countries had the same freedom of press, but that the Western nations also limited speech about "sacred" topics. Their point was that just as cartoons disparaging Mohammed cannot be published in Muslim national papers, so cartoons about the Holocaust cannot be published in Western papers. In their view, this constituted a double standard.
The Holocaust Cartoon contest, sponsored in 2006 by the Teheran Newspaper Hamshahri, was a response to the Jyllands-Posten controversy of 2005, in which the Danish newspaper posted a set of political cartoons featuring Mohammed, in part (the Newspaper claimed) to further critique of Islamism within Islam.
The worldwide reaction to this publication (e.g., riots in Afghanistan) then raised the issue of press/speech freedom, which Muslim countries don't have but "the West" supposedly does.
Hamshahri presented the contest as a response to this issue, not to claim that Muslim countries had the same freedom of press, but that the Western nations also limited speech about "sacred" topics. Their point was that just as cartoons disparaging Mohammed cannot be published in Muslim national papers, so cartoons about the Holocaust cannot be published in Western papers. In their view, this constituted a double standard.
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