Joking about the Holocaust: An international phenomenon
From MSNBC:
An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened Monday as Iran's response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper [Jyllands-Posten].
The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a "myth" and saying Israel should be destroyed.
One cartoon by Indonesian Tony Thomdean [sic: I think the name is "Tommy" Thomdean] shows the Statue of Liberty holding a book on the Holocaust in its left hand and giving a Nazi-style salute with the other.
Two hundred cartoons? Those were just the best ones:
Masoud Shojai, director of the host Caricature House, said a jury looked through 1,200 entries received after the contest was announced in February by the co-sponsor, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri.
It came following worldwide protests by Muslims against the Muhammad cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Many Muslims considered the cartoon offensive and a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.
A lot of idle cartoonists in the Middle East? Hardly. The cartoons came from all over:
Hamshahri said it wanted to test the West's tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews in World War II. The entries on display came from nations including United States, Indonesia and Turkey.
Interesting. So I took it upon myself to find a list of the participants. It took some looking, but here it is (sorry about the formatting -- the original source is a bit of a mess):
The list of Participants in International Cartoonet Festival About Danish Cartoons and Holocaust International cartoon contest-Holocaust Administered by Hamshahri Daily with the Cooperation of Iran Cartoon "International Cartoon" Holocaust West's reaction towards holocaust creates serious questions in the mind of world's peoples, such as: 1) Why discussion is not allowed concerning holocaust, if it is a historical fact. 2) The holocaust had been finished and nothing can be done for it. But the bigger holocausts are happening in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan and we can protect their victims. 3) Why suppressed and suffered people of Palestine living hundreds kilometer away from Poland and Germany should pay the price for holocaust? Afghanistan Atiqullah shahid Arab Saudi Sultan El Sebay Argentina Javier Ariano Cristobal Reinoso Algeria Ferhaoui Louafi Choukri BELHADI Sadon Fathi Azerbaijan Seyran Caferli Australia John C. Luis Pol Bahrain Rami Omran Bangladesh Nabik Sindabad Sadat Ahmed Ahmed Kabir Kishore Ahmed Belgium Benjamin Heine Thierry Hebbelinck D.De H.(Quack) Bosnia Herzegovina Muhamed Avdogic Brazil Augosto Franke Bier Carlos Latuff Casso Antonio Pereca Fabiog Da Silva Eugenio de Faria Neves Sin Fronio Einstein Cival Sidnei marques J.Bosco Raimondu Waldez Da C. Durate Waldez Duarte Marcio Leite da Silva Osnildo Luciano Kayser Hector Salas Carlos Roberto Gonçalves Galvio Tharley Seabra da Silva Eloar Guazzelli Eliene Lopes de Souza Bulgaria Stefan Penev Nikolai Arnaudov Canada Marc Pageau China Dachuan Xia Guangiun Li Lei hao Zhu Hui Qin Lei hao Hou Xiao Qiang Xue Hong Huang Weiqin Chen An Yong Liang Yu HOU XIAO QIANG Sun Ronggui Colombia Fernando Pica Raul Fernando Zuleta Sanchez Croatia Ivan Kesic Zeljko Ceric / Raf Damir Novak Cuba Angel Boligan Ares Enrique Lacosta Alex Falco Luis Felipe Wilson Valera Jose Francisco Delgado Velez (Delga) Juan Carlos Pedreira Denmark Bitsch A. Ch. Egypt Cherif Loutfi Hanan Marzouk Esmail Effat Tamer Youssef Hassan Hanafy Hany Mohamed Mohamed El-Sagher Hany Mohamed Samir Abd-Elfatah kamel berbache Mohamed Mosbah Shaban Mohammed Aamer OSAMA A BELAL Amr Aasem El Sawy Rezk Diaa Sabry Estonia martt Ethiopia Abdul Selam Ahmede France Dab Chard A. M. Ain R. B. Bernard.B. KAMARDINE Germany FloleH Mit Freunhen Grubendlic Greece Michael Kountouris Honduras Allan Mcdonald Luis Rolando Chavez Hungary Josip Kovacevic Balazs Szabo India Abdul Rasheed Soma Shankar Suman Kumar Kaur Chand Badhok Iam Suman Om Prakash Sharma G.Kiran Kumar Kamal Basha Malik Sajad Sairam Akundi Sri Ramoju Zehra Ziadi KARUNAKAR YENIKAPATI Madhan Mohan Satish Acharya Om Prakash Sharma Sriramoju Ganesh Indonesia Musa Muzauwir Abdurahman.M.Alattas Rahardi Handining Leonardus Wahyudi Sunarwan Ollid Denis Taufan Galaxy Fathoni Jitet Koestana Tommy Thomdean Utoyo Djoko Susilo Doddy Iswahyudi Elton Rolland Ikhsan Dwiono Afri Diyansyah Iran Abas Parhizgar Abdolhossein Amirizadeh Ahmad Bahrami Abolfazl Mohtarami Akbar Torabpour Ali Merikhi Ali Nourian Ali Romanee Ali Shabani Ali Tajadod Alireza Golmohammadi Alireza Esmaili Alireza Zakeri Amar Javani Amin Hashemi Amir Amini Amir Fathali Nezhadiyan Amir Vahedi Arash Ansari Aref Rajabi Arezou Aghababaiyan Ashkan Sepehrkhou Babak Shekari Bahram Arjomandnia Basir Enayati Behruz Yaghoubi Kiani Behnam Raafti Benam Bahrami Behzad Ghasabi SEtvat Darush Farzaneh Davood Deldar Davood Kazemi Ebrahim Azad Ebrahimzadeh Houshang Enayatallah Turkzadeh Esmaiil Babaee Fahime Azizi Farid Mortezavi Farid Yahaghi Farhad Naji Fraz Salek Jaber Asadi Jalal Pirmarzabad Javad Takjou Habib Sadeghi Hadi Farokhnezhad Hadi Nasiri Hadi Tabasi Hamed Nabahat Hamidreza Javadi Hamidreza Mohammadi Hamideh Dehghani Hamid Sharifi Hassan Ali Besanjideh Hasan Mousazade Hassan Rouholamini Hamidreza Hayatroshanaie Hamidreza Javadi Hamidreza Mosayebi Homayoun Abdolrahimi Hossein Abdollahi Adli Hossein Anabestani Hossein Alizadeh Hossein Elmi Mousavi Hussain Al Shakoori Hossein Fadaiy Hossein Hajiagha Hossein Kazem Hooman kamrani Hossein Rahimkhani Hossein Taheri Hossein Yuzbashi Iman Sadeghi Ghasem Lotfee Khatereh Khodai Anakhatoun Khosrow TalebPour Maaede Ebadipoor Mahmoud Nazari Majid Adibi Malaeke Farhang Adib Mehdi Sadeghi Massoud Sajad Mehdi Mohammady Mehrdad Samadi Zakaria Mohammad Hosein Banakaran Mohammad Ashena Mohammadreza Doustmohammadi Masomeh Hamzeh Loo Safaei Mohammad Hossein Niroumand Mohsen Rafiee Morteza Asadi Morteza Azarkheil Massoud Shojai Tabatabai Massoud Vahabzadeh Mahdi Joudi Majedeh Motalebi Mahnam Najafi Mahnaz Mahmoudi Mahdi Tamizi Marza Azadi Maziyar Bizhani Mahdieh Mahdavian Mahmoud Mokhtari Mahmoud Nazari Mehdi Azizi Shad Mehdi Mohammadi Rouzbahani Mehrdad Mazrai Farahani Mohammad Hossein Karami Mohammad Kazem Hasanvand Mohammadreza Besharati Mohammadali Rajabi Mohsen Nouri Najafi Mohsen Asadi Mostafa Estarian Mostafa Mahin Hosseinnia Mostfa Sattarian Mohammadreza Eftekharypour Naser Kordi Neda Tanhai Moghadam Payman Kouhi Pedram Hakimzadeh Pendar Nasser Sharif Reza Javani Rahim Baghal Asghari Rahim Taghipour Sedgh Razmjou Reza AKarami Reza Jangi Reza Radmehr Reza Javani Reza Mozafari Sadegh Bagheri Saeed Sadeghi Sajad Hejazi Sam Keshmiri seyed hossein Yazdan keshmiri Seyed Javad Miraghazadeh Seyed Kazem Ghafari Seyed Mohammad Esmaili Taba Seyed Mostafa Hosseini Seyed Mehdi Esmaili Seyed Mahmoud Javadi Seyed Mostafa Hosseini Seyedeh Shirin Seyed Rezazad Seyed Vahid Mosatafavi Shahram Khoram Shahram Omid Shahram Rezai Shahram Shirzadi Shahrokh Malekzadeh Shiva Sahamifard Sina Mohajer Soheil Setayesh Vahid DashtyariKhodayar Vahid Khodayar Zahra Nayebi Zainab Amini Zainab Nikchedehi Iraq Mohammed Aladwani Ali Alsaadi Italy Gatto Alessandro Japan I. B. Tetsuro Susumu Jordan Omar Adnan Salem Al Abdallat Baker Al-Haski Khaleel Jihad Awrtani Naser Al Jafari Mosa Ajjaw Kazakhstan Galym BORANBAYEV South Korea Lee-Hyunsik Lebanon Fuad Eyash Asad Amro Ibrahim Adel Hamdan Nour Hijazi Macedonia Zlatko Krstevski Mexico Alberto Jorge Haro Escamilla Arturo Rosas Pineda Morroco Derkaoui-Abdellah khalil Khay Brahim Bougharraf Naji Benaji AASSID Houcine Tallil Abdellatif Brahim BOUGHARRAF Abdelmalek Lahlali Abdelghani Jekki Nigeria Sidi Muhammad Muhammad Norway Jim Hambourg Firuz Kutal Oman Abdel Nasser Moustafa Salama Palestine Nedal Hashim Khaleel Muhhammed Samer Al Samiri Abu Jabri Rami Omran Omar Rezvan Pakistan Kashif Ghalib Ikram Shah Raza Zaidi Murad Ali Shah Nasreen Zehra Philippine Norman B. Issac Poland Marcin Bondarowicz Adrian Franczyk Joanna Wasiak-Bassa MACIEJ WIERZBICKI Miroslaw HAJNOS Portugal Jose António Marques Correia Romania Cletiu Radu Ghinea Andrei-Vlad Alexandru Lincu Serban Suru Russia Eryx Miliaris Igor Savenkov Vladimir Sharlaj Yuriy Mukhin Andrey Lupin Elena Merkurieva Rudin V. Troyn Buss Serbia Aleksandar Blatnik Vlada Avramoivc Dusan Vukojev Oglasni Sektor Slobodan Trifkovic Petar Avramovic Singapore Dawei Yan Spain Jose Luis De Valero Rafael Iglesias Luis Menta Dragan Lukic Muhammad Hassan Royo Sudan Ahmad Akra Sweden A. Rami Laurentz Dahl Jan Bernhoff Switzerland Suat Suha K.H.Witt Syria Waleed al-Rawi Raed Khalil khaled al-swid Farah Khalil Ibrahim khaleel Feras Nouf Nedal Ali Deep Yassin Alkhalil Wissam Asaad Turkey Ahmet Aykanat Hayati Kaihan Yusuf Temiz Burak Oktay Sadik Pala Gökalp Yildiz Numan KODAL Emrah Ar?kan Fethi Develioglu Ahmet Vahit Akca Ibrahim Kalayci Hilmi Simsek Ferhat Demirbas Ismail kar Murat Makara Ahmet Oztürklevent Muhammet Mustafa AYDIN Sevket Yalaz Sabri Ergüder Turker Yildirim Umit Mufit DINCAY Osman Suroglu Serdar toka Yalsin Eroglu Yasar Nuket Terzioglu Yavuz Özhan ÖNÜR Murat Yilmaz Omer Cam Murat Top Yasar Nuket Terzioglu Yavuz Mamac UK David Varen Bill Smith Robert Edwards Tim Bryant Venezuela Jose chacin USA Mike Flugennock Aaron Heineman Robin Moore John Bryant David Baldinger Peter Lifton Jack Matt G. Bernhard Kurt Vennekohl Foreed M. Hugh Bradley Leo Garcia Yemen Mazin Hamud Shuga'a Al-Deen Mohammed Masoud Ahmed Adnan Mhakree
A Canadian, Marc Pageau, is listed as a participant. From Pageau's website:
Now, we're at it! For two weeks that it was announced by Iran, the international contest of caricatures on the Holocaust has at last been launched.
I will also participate myself!
;0)
However, I will respect a certain personal and professional ethics while trying not to offend anybody in this debate on the freedom of expression by the caricature. I consider ALL RELIGIONS on the same equal footing and I intend well to treat them all in the same way, i.e. by the silly things of which they go all guilty.
If there are some fundamentalist integrist ones among the readers of this blog, it doesn't matters they are Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hinduists, Raelians or others, you will always be able to sue me!
I will never thank you enough for it, because this surely will make me famous in the whole world and you also, for the demonstration of your own stupidity!
I will publish my caricatures on this blog as soon as the results of the contest will be known and as I will get the O.K. for it by the organization of the contest.
I guess we'll have to wait until September to Pageau's contribution to mocking the Holocaust, which he equates to criticism of religion. Of course, he might of submitted a satirical entry aimed at Iran, but then why would his name appear on the list?
In the mean time, I invite fellow bloggers from around the world to look through the list and consider the scribblers who appear on the list who are from your neck of the woods. Let's hear what they have to say about the Holocaust.
While you do that, let us spare a moment for the men who have been assigned to the solemn task of judging these cartoons.
Update: Not everyone was a willing participant. And this American was assured by the Iranians that they have no intention of ridiculing the Holocaust -- and takes us to task for being so naive and unsophisticated.
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