First we find out that the Danish paper that ran the Muhammad illustrations and opened the gates of cartoon hell had earlier refused to run parodies of Christianity, has decided to run the Holocaust satire cartoons, as called for by an Iranian paper:
Flemming Rose, the culture editor of Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, said today he was trying to get in touch with the Iranian paper, Hamshari, which plans to run an international competition seeking cartoons about the Holocaust.
"My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them," Mr Rose told CNN.
The Danish editor was also defiantly unapologetic about the original publication of 12 cartoons - one of which featured the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb - in his paper five months ago.
Mr Rose said he did not regret publishing the pictures.
"I think it is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt at a discotheque [on] Friday night," he said.
"If you're wearing a short skirt that does not necessarily mean you invite everybody to have sex with you. If you make a cartoon, make fun of religion, make fun of religious figures, that does not imply that you humiliate or denigrate or marginalise a religion." No, it's more like asking a fireworks enthusiast if he regrets setting off his explosives on the ground in a freaking crowd of people... What next??? And I wonder how MalkinFrau and her new friend Alan Derschowitz are gonna feel about that...? I mean after all, so you not have to show the outrageous Holocaust-denying cartoons in order to talk about the outrageous Holocaust-denying cartoons...?
Meanwhile, Mideast expert (btw he's not a Muslim, he's Christian, and I think Lebanese...) Walid Phares blogs at the Counterterrorism Blog on the orchestrated campaign to turn the cartoons into an international incident.
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