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In Afghanistan today, protesters against the Danish cartoons of Muhammed clashed with international peacekeepers, leaving three dead. Nato forces were called into the area in response to the violence.
After severing all trading ties to Denmark, Iran hasn't stopped. A prominent Iranian newspaper, Hamshahri, is holding a Holocaust cartoon competition. I'd support this kind of response - as it is a break from violence - if it came with a sense of humor. Unfortunately, this response exhibits a unique inability to take a joke. Holocaust cartoons are nothing new in an area where Holocaust denial runs rampant, and even Westerners in general are portrayed as baby killing monsters. "The West condemns any denial of the Jewish Holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities," the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said. He also cited the cartoons as part of an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over Hamas election victories.
Unfortunately for Khamenei, he has some facts wrong. The cartoons were originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September. The paper requested caricatures of Muhammed to see if cartoonists had the balls to criticize Islam as they do other religions. The original publication went largely unnoticed. The entire incident might have been avoided were it not for Muslim leaders who made a point of circulating them.
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Former president Clinton became a giant weeny when he announced to an audience in Qatar that he found the cartoons "appalling."
The State Department echoed his sentiments, calling the cartoons offensive.