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Iran Can Dish It Out, But Can't Take It.
Feb. 12th, 2006 05:34 pmIran has decided to run a contest for the best cartoon referencing the Holocaust. Fair enough, it's freedom of speech, although I don't know how European Jews being massacred has anything to do with Danish cartoons violating a Muslim taboo.
My submission would be a drawing of Mohammed in an outline of Iran, ringed with barbed wire and a sign saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the gate.
Interestingly, Iran isn't so up on freedom of speech when their nutball president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the fundamentalist founder of today's Iran are the subjects of a journalist's ire. Iran has arrested a reporter and threatened her with the death penalty for blasphemously comparing Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khomeni with the AIDS virus.
You can't have it both ways, Iran. You're being hypocritical by allowing criticism of other governments' not allowing Holocaust denial, yet denying journalists in your own country the right to criticize their own government.
My submission would be a drawing of Mohammed in an outline of Iran, ringed with barbed wire and a sign saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" over the gate.
Interestingly, Iran isn't so up on freedom of speech when their nutball president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the fundamentalist founder of today's Iran are the subjects of a journalist's ire. Iran has arrested a reporter and threatened her with the death penalty for blasphemously comparing Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khomeni with the AIDS virus.
You can't have it both ways, Iran. You're being hypocritical by allowing criticism of other governments' not allowing Holocaust denial, yet denying journalists in your own country the right to criticize their own government.
