Sick Iranian Contest Features Holocaust-Denying Cartoons
An Iranian Museum is sponsoring an art contest that challenges entrants to disrespect the Holocaust, and it apparently has the blessing of the country’s regime.
The Second International Holocaust Cartoons Contest offers a $12,000 prize to the winning artist, as well as the opportunity to feature their piece at the Palestine Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran.
The last competition was held in 2006, but has been revived following the Charlie Hebdo controversy and attacks.
“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,” according to the Tehran Times, a publication which calls itself “the voice of the Islamic Revolution.”
The previous winner was a Moroccan entry depicting a wall surrounding Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock – a Muslim holy site – with images of the Auschwitz concentration/death camp printed upon it. The meaning suggests that Judaism followers use the Holocaust to obscure their alleged persecution of Muslims.
“Although the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo has nothing whatsoever to do with Jews or the Holocaust, the Iranian regime insists on making a distorted and direct connection between the two. The manipulative, intentional distortion of the Holocaust desecrates the memory of both victims and survivors, and suggests strongly that the Iranian regime has yet to overcome the politics of hate.”
In the recent past, numerous leaders of Iran have suggested that the WWII atrocity that killed 6 million Jews never actually happened.
In other news, apparently water isn’t wet, the Earth is the center of the universe, and the Seahawks were correct to pass the ball from the 1-yard-line.
[via FOX News]
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