"On February 6, 2006, Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor of Hamshahri, announced a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust.
The twelve best contributions were to be rewarded with a golden coin
each, which were later increased to $5000 to $12000 prizes for the top
3 cartoons and 3 gold coins each for 12 other cartoonists. Later, Hamshahri
published an English introduction to the contest, as well as preliminary rules.The contest was created in response to the twelve cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (see Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy) to challenge the championing of freedom of speech in the defense of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons ...."
It's a big site, so follow the link for full story, but I DID rather like this piece about Reaction Outside of Iran, particularly the first bit which I put in bold print. Hee!:
That same day, an Israeli group[6] announced an anti-semitic cartoon contest
open to Jews only. One of the two founders of this group was quoted as
saying "We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most
offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us
on our home turf!".
Six of the least controversial cartoons of the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition were republished by Danish Newspaper Dagbladet Information on September 8, 2006 after the editor consulted the main rabbi in Copenhagen,[7] and three cartoons were later reprinted in Jyllands-Posten as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Holocaust_Cartoon_Competition
"On February 6, 2006, Farid Mortazavi, graphics editor of Hamshahri, announced a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust.
The twelve best contributions were to be rewarded with a golden coin
each, which were later increased to $5000 to $12000 prizes for the top
3 cartoons and 3 gold coins each for 12 other cartoonists. Later, Hamshahri
published an English introduction to the contest, as well as preliminary rules.The contest was created in response to the twelve cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (see Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy) to challenge the championing of freedom of speech in the defense of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons ...."
It's a big site, so follow the link for full story, but I DID rather like this piece about Reaction Outside of Iran, particularly the first bit which I put in bold print. Hee!:
"On February 14, 2006 .........
That same day, an Israeli group[6] announced an anti-semitic cartoon contest
open to Jews only. One of the two founders of this group was quoted as
saying "We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most
offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us
on our home turf!".
Six of the least controversial cartoons of the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition were republished by Danish Newspaper Dagbladet Information on September 8, 2006 after the editor consulted the main rabbi in Copenhagen,[7] and three cartoons were later reprinted in Jyllands-Posten as well."