Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
Seems like apples to oranges to me (joking about an event that involved the torture, starvation and murder of millions of people vs. portraying a religious figure in a funny hat), and I would suggest that the only appropriate response would be for those of us who are offended by Holocaust jokes to stop buying this particular newspaper, as muslims the world over were free to do when it published the cartoon that so offended them.
Oh, but I certainly want to see those Iranian cartoons. And I will make sure I do, even though it will probably involve paying in some way towards the rights of the makers and publishers. One needs to stay posted in my business.

And before we judge, let us see exactly how this plays out. Making fun of the victims of the Holocaust is something entirely different from, let us say, making fun of people who abuse the Holocaust for personal or political purposes, a.k.a. the 'Holocaust industry'. Jewish audiences sometimes protest the latter in the most vehement manner and on the same purely emotional and irrational grounds that we see on display in the Arab streets today, but we don't give in to them, nor should we.

I also wonder how many of the Iranian cartoons will be merely anti-Semitic, depicting Jews as some inferior race instead of addressing the topic, i.e. the Holocaust.

And finally I am willing to bet that no matter how the Iranian cartoons are going to turn out, the debate about them will be in terms of hurt feelings. Not a rational argument about what constitutes a lie, slander or opinion, but yet another whining contest in the worst post-modern fashion.

Oh, I am so huuurt!...