Holocaust Cartoon Exhibit Opens In Tehran
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - A cartoon exhibit dubbed a reaction to last year's publishing of a political caricature featuring the Prophet Mohammed opened in Tehran Monday. On display were 204 cartoons calling into question the authenticity of the Nazi Holocaust. Muslims across the globe last year erupted in often violent demonstrations after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban. The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri, which co-sponsored the Tehran exhibit, said it was interested in seeing if Western tolerance extended to inflammatory depictions of the Jews' suffering during World War II. According to the AP, the drawings all appeared to be strongly influenced by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's public labeling of the Holocaust as a "myth" concocted by the Jews and the West to justify the creation of the state of Israel.
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