I don’t plan each day’s blogging with a theme, but it so happens that today’s two posts mention Iran.
   Gina Cobb posts that Iranian newspaper Hamshahri has launched a competition for cartoonists to depict the Holocaust. Remember Iran’s president is the guy going around saying the Holocaust never happened.
   I was against the publication of the cartoons in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, so I feel pretty secure in saying this competition is a load of garbage.
   Will Jewish groups and their allies react with protests and burn down Iranian embassies? Somehow, without extremists igniting fires, the reaction might be quite different. And will the same media republish these based on their high-and-mighty “public interest” banner? Hamshahri might find fewer willing allies through the wire services and cartoons making fun of the Holocaust are hardly unusual in some parts of the middle east.
   I wish the dialogue were more genuine, however. It’s certainly nicer battling things out using the press than literal battlefields. But the authentic voices remain the bloggers’.
   Politics aside, the guy who comes second with an idea usually doesn’t get the same attention. Anyone know what Buzz Aldrin said when he got on to the moon? I don’t. Posted by Jack Yan, 10:31  permalink

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