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Sunday, May 9, 2010

I don't trade ideology for money: Carlos Latuff  http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=10512&lg=en

CL: Still today I've been accused of denying Holocaust because of that artwork for which I won the second place in the Iranian cartoon contest. It's funny since the cartoon shows a Palestinian elderly wearing a concentration camp uniform, which not only affirms the existence of the Nazi Holocaust as well as making a comparison between it and the suffering of the Palestinians. I believe that this contest had exposed the Western's double standard.

When you ridicule and attack Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Islam or Muslims, then this is called "satire", "humor", "freedom of speech", whatever. Joking about Islam is pretty acceptable. Islamophobia is popular in the US and Europe, specially after September 11.

However the same freedom you have for making cartoons about Islam and its Prophet you won't have while dealing with Holocaust and Israel. If you dare draw Israeli soldiers killing Palestinians (isn't a fact?), you will be automatically labeled as anti-Semitic. While Muhammad cartoons were wide spread in Europe, Holocaust cartoons weren't not reproduced in any European newspaper.

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