Holocaust cartoon contest

last updated 8 January 2015

Tehran

Iran’s largest newspaper, Hamshahri, is calling for submissions of cartoons mocking or denying the Holocaust. The contest is meant as a rebuke to the European newspapers that have reprinted Danish drawings of the Prophet Mohammed. “Western newspapers published those caricatures, which constitute desecration, under the pretense of freedom of expression,” said graphics editor Farid Mortazawi. “Let’s see if they mean what they say once we publish Holocaust caricatures.” Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the Mohammed cartoons were an Israeli plot to destabilize the Muslim world.