JTW News - Iranian Paper Launches Holocaust Cartoon Contest

An Iranian newspaper launched on Monday, February 13, a Holocaust cartoons contest reportedly to test the freedom of expression in the West after the publication of Danish caricatures lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The first entry was from renowned Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig, according to the Web site organizing the competition with Iran's biggest selling newspaper Hamshahri, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP). "As a show of solidarity with the Muslim world, and an exercise in free speech, I would like to submit a cartoon to you on the theme of the Holocaust," Leunig was quoted as saying in a statement posted on the site. The first of Leunig's two cartoons shows a poor man with a Star of David on his back walking towards the Auschwitz death camp in 1945 with the words "Work Brings Freedom" over the entrance. The second shows the same scene but depicting "Israel 2002" with the slogan "War Brings Peace" over entrance and the same man walking towards it bearing a rifle. The newspaper said the contest was open until May 5. It did not announce what the prize would be but said each cartoonist would receive a book of the cartoons submitted. siehe auch: Holocaust cartoon contest draws 1 entry so far. Another entry is decried as a fraud by an Australian artist, Holocaust Cartoon Contest Gets Entry. An Iranian newspaper's contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, launched Monday in response to a series of caricatures about the Prophet Mohammed, has already drawn at least one entry, the paper said, Update 3: Holocaust Cartoon Contest Gets Entries. An Iranian newspaper's contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, launched Monday in response to a series of caricatures about the Prophet Mohammed, has already drawn at least two entries - one from Brazil and one from Australia, the paper said, Major Iranian Newspaper Holds Holocaust Cartoons Competition, Iranian Newspaper, Hamshahri, Calls for Holocaust Cartoons to Test Purported Western Freedom of Expression, Israel News Agency To Post SEO Iran Holocaust Cartoons, Leunig cartoon sparks storm. Cartoonist Michael Leunig says one of his drawings has been fraudulently submitted in his name to an Iranian newspaper seeking entries on the theme of the Holocaust. Leunig, who works for The Age in Melbourne, has demanded that the cartoon and words written under his name be removed from an Iranian web site. Reports earlier said Leunig had submitted a cartoon to Iran's biggest selling newspaper, Hamshahri, which had organised the competition in response to the publication in Western newspapers of controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. But speaking to ABC radio, Leunig denied he had made the entry, Australian cartoonist's Holocaust sketch 'a fake'. Renowned Melbourne cartoonist Michael Leunig says a cartoon apparently submitted in his name to an Iranian newspaper seeking entries on the theme of the Holocaust is a fake