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Iranian Cartoons Mock Holocaust
An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened in Iran on Monday.
The exhibition is in response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.
The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran's hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for questioning the Holocaust.
One cartoon by Indonesian Tony Thomdean shows the Statue of Liberty holding a book on the Holocaust in its left hand and giving a Nazi-style salute with the other.
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Masoud Shojai, director of the host Caricature House, said a jury looked through 1,200 entries received after the contest was announced in February by the co sponsor, the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri.
It came following worldwide fury by Muslims against the Muhammad cartoon published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and subsequent ones in France.
Several European publications reprinted the images in solidarity of freedom of expression, they said at the time. Many Muslims considered the cartoon offensive and a violation of traditions prohibiting images of their prophet.
Hamshahri said it wanted to test the West's tolerance for drawings about the Nazi killing of six million Jews in World War II.
© 2006 Associated Press.
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