Danish editor behind Prophet drawings says he'd publish Iran's Holocaust cartoons

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February 8, 2006 (NEW YORK) - The Danish editor behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said Wednesday he's trying to coordinate with an Iranian paper soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust.

"My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them," Flemming Rose said Wednesday in an interview on CNN's "American Morning."

The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri said Tuesday it would hold the competition to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

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"I do not regret it," Rose said. "I think it is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt at a discotheque Friday night. In that sense, in our culture, if you're wearing a short skirt, that does not necessarily mean you invite everybody to have sex with you. As is the case with these cartoons, if you make a cartoon, make fun of religion, make fun of religious figures, that does not imply that you humiliate or denigrate or marginalize a religion."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=n...orld&id=3886997

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oh well...and the beat goes on

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nice

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February 8, 2006 (NEW YORK) - The Danish editor behind the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said Wednesday he's trying to coordinate with an Iranian paper soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust.

"My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them," Flemming Rose said Wednesday in an interview on CNN's "American Morning."

The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri said Tuesday it would hold the competition to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

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"I do not regret it," Rose said. "I think it is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt at a discotheque Friday night. In that sense, in our culture, if you're wearing a short skirt, that does not necessarily mean you invite everybody to have sex with you. As is the case with these cartoons, if you make a cartoon, make fun of religion, make fun of religious figures, that does not imply that you humiliate or denigrate or marginalize a religion."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=n...orld&id=3886997

HOLOCAUST-KARIKATUREN

"Jyllands-Posten" dementiert Pläne für Nachdruck

Erst meldeten Nachrichtenagenturen, "Jyllands-Posten" erwäge den Abdruck von Karikaturen zum Holocaust, für den eine iranische Zeitung einen Wettbewerb ausgerufen hat. Dann kam das Dementi des Chefredakteurs. Niemals werde er entsprechende Bilder ins Blatt nehmen.

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Loosely translated: The printing of Holocaust cartoons in this paper ain't happening. And it's the chief editor saying so. I mean, honestly, why would or should anyone in their right mind support the glaring idiocy of this Iranian menace of a President?

It really would have surprised me if they had attempted to do so. They could have closed up shop right then and there as they would most definitely have lost their readership. Besides, the chief editor would probably have found himself tied up in litigation so badly that his great-grandchildren would still be responding to legal motions five decades down the road...