Holocaust Cartoon Contest: Where's the Outrage Now?

Iranian women attend the international cartoon contest on the Holocaust in Tehran.

Iranian men look at an exhibit during a visit at the Holocaust International Cartoon Exhibition in Tehran August 14, 2006.

COMMENTLINES
It's a question, simple enough. Where's the outrage from the non-Muslim world at the more than 200 entries in Iran's International Holocaust Cartoons Contest?

Lack of outrage?

It's a statement, simple enough: apathy.

Perhaps it's dangerous to compare this apathy with the apathy the world has historically shown to true fascism (and not the kool-aid variety labels liberals toss so recklessly at President Bush).

Is it 2006 or 1939?

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." --George Santayana

NEWSBYTES
Iranian Exhibit Takes On the Holocaust
Cartoon Contest Launched in Answer to Publication of Muhammad Caricatures
TEHRAN, Aug. 16 (Reuters) -- At the exhibition entrance, a poster shows a helmet with the Star of David lying on top of others carrying a Nazi swastika. Inside, the Statue of Liberty is pictured holding a Holocaust book while giving a Nazi salute.

Iran Opens Exhibition Mocking Holocaust
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust opened this week, reflecting Iran's response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

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