11 September 2006
The Danish newspaper "Information" has published six cartoons from the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest, JTA reports. The Iranian government launched the contest earlier this year after the Danish newspaper "Jyllands-Posten" had printed cartoons critical of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Among the cartoons "Information" chose to print is one featuring President Bush with a gun and helmet with the Star of David, pointing at a painting of Adolf Hitler and saying: “He started it.” In a related development, an Irish lawmaker has condemned the appearance of the satirical Holocaust cartoons in Iran’s largest newspaper, Hamshari, as “totally unacceptable.” In a letter to the "Irish Times", Ruairi Quinn, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust of Ireland, wrote: “When a sovereign nation not only questions but also satirizes the Nazi Holocaust, it is an affront to decent people everywhere.” Quinn represents a constituency in south Dublin with a relatively high proportion of the city’s 1,500 Jews, according to JTA.
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