Holocaust cartoon fair opens in Iran

This topic was created in the Aquarius forum by Yama on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 and has 15 replies.

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"So I think they still have maintained a semblence of respect for Jews by not aiming at the religion directly. Which the Denmark newspaper didn't do."

What did the jews have to do with this?

"but the editor refused because it might not do well with the "sentiments" of most of their readers. Yeah "Freedom of Speech" alright."

"Freedom of speech" =\= "duty of editor to post whatever is handed to them"

"So say WTF all you want, but when you couldn't see how offensive those cartoons where"

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"It doesn't have anything to do with them . Right. Absolutely. So now why did they have to posts those Cartoons in Denmark against the Muslims—"

Do you have an evidence that supports this claim?

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"Well you seem to be hung up on that."

I do?

"The danish paper picked something they knew was very sensitive to Muslims, Muslims picked something that they know is very sensitive to the Western world."

Yeah, I got that, that doesn't make it alright though.

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"The One that I am talking about aimed at the Prophet directly and made fun of him. That's aiming at a religious core. The very heart."

If I'm not mistaken, only one of the cartoons depicted Muhammad.

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"As I said, you can buy postcards in Iran with Mohammed on them, so it's not against Muslim law to do so, if it is, they might want to clean their own house up before cookiemonstering about someone else."

There are different sects of Islam, so it is possible that it's legal in some countries, and illegal in others.

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"But in a way I guess you might be right. Its really about land and economics in the end of the day."

At the end of the day it's about dictators that are trying to divert the attention of their disenfranchised young men.

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The sun's placement kind of "colors" it, y'know give it the influence of the house's sign, for example-I have my Scorpio sun in the first house, and my Capricorn moon in the third, so even though I'm supposed to be serious and quiet and stuff, I'm immature, loud, etc...

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This is seriously surreal-http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,412390,00.html

From the article-
"Following the outrage over the Muhammad caricatures published in Western newspapers, Israeli artists staged a contest. They were looking for the best anti-Semitic cartoons. The results are in."

The cartoons:
http://boomka.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/falbum/wp/album.php?album=72057594067999377

Heh, the muslims staged the first contest to show how intolerant the west was, and now it's backfiring. Big time. 😛

"So what does that say about me?"

Well, I don't know you very well, but the influences are pretty evident, the sun in the eleventh house means you have some Aquarian characteristics, like the unbiased judgement of both sides, and mercury(thought+communication) in the twelfth is apparent by the way you try to empathise with both sides, kind of like a Pisces.