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| Iran paper launches cartoon challenge |
| 2006-02-13 |
| An Iranian newspaper has opened an international competition seeking cartoons on the Holocaust in what it says is a test of whether the West will be as supportive of freedom of expression over the Nazi genocide as it was with caricatures of Islam's prophet. Hamshahri, one of Iran's five leading newspapers, published the call for cartoons under the title: What is the Limit of Western Freedom of Expression? on its website on Monday. Davood Kazemi, executive manager of the contest, said the announcement would also appear in the print version of the paper. "We don't intend retaliation over the drawings of the prophet," he said. "We just want to show that freedom is restricted in the West." |
| Posted by:Fred |