What? An Iranian paper is holding a cartoon contest in revenge for the Danish cartoons? It sounds like a much better idea than torching embassies - except that the subject is 'the Holocaust'. It's logic is that it is a taboo in the West that would not be breached - except that it is breached fairly often anyway by extreme right wingers across Europe, because freedom of the press is also extended to fascists in democratic countries like Denmark. Despite being one of the most liberal and free-thinking nations on Earth, the extreme-right-wing is still the third largest party in Denmark. Another topic of the competition was to do with America's war crimes. I'm thinking of entering in that category myself, but will face stiff competition from hundreds of far better American cartoonists who draw on this in newspapers daily over here. I don't think anyone criticizes American foreign policy and government practise more than Americans themselves - despite the NSA spying and the utter corporate corruption at every level of government, especially the neo-right-wing leadership, this is still a free and vocal society. Meanwhile, in riots protesting at twelve badly drawn cartoons published in a regional Jutland newspaper, people are dying. This whole situation is really starting to pen and ink.
8.2.06 09:57
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