2006-02-07
Iranian paper seeks Holocaust cartoons
I applaud this very adult response to the Muhammad cartoons. One excellent and very important point that I hope the Iranians make here is that these Holocaust cartoons -- and their president's remarks about the Holocaust not happening -- are banned as criminal acts in several European nations. As Turkish authorities continue their quest to gain membership in the EU, they face challanges for their nation's failure to meet EU standards for free speach. I hope the Turks both increase their level of free speach, and challenge the EU's acceptance of member nation's anti-speach laws. This is not the first time that I thought Iran's religious leaders advanced an intelligent thought (another thought was their President proposing that since Europeans believe that a holocaust occured, that it was enacted by a European government, and that this contributed to the justification for establishing a "Jewish state," that this state should exist in Europe, not in Arabia).
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I agree Paul. Free speech is a two-way street, no matter how absurd your point, or claim, such as denying the severity of the Holocuast, or whether it even occured at all.
I am completely opposed to hate-speech laws. They are ludicrous. Let the Iranians believe what they want to believe. Then at least we know where they stand once and for all.
Same thing with the Palestinians. While it may be disgusting and disturbing that they voted Hamas into power, again, at least now we once and for all where they stand. There's no more mincing words; no more talking out of both sides of collective their mouths. No more saying one thing on camera to the free world and the complete opposite to their people when the cameras and microphones have turned away.
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