February 09, 2006

Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition: An Essay Concerning Common Sense, And Those Who Fail To Adhere To It

Let's look at this from the point of view of an abbreviation:

B.F.D.

The full sentece rhymes with Dig Trucking Real.

Okay, now for some hard headed realism.

The Iranians are calling for a cartoon contest depicting the Holocaust in response to the current Mohammed Is A Pedophile, Pimp, Goat Humping, Wife Beating, Masturbating To Wilbur (he did have visions you know) cartoons printed in, well, everywhere.

Fact: Studies have shown that 100% of the people that died in the Holocaust are still dead. Studies have also shown that 100% of them are incapable of being offended by Iranian Holocaust cartoon contests.

Fact: There are still many people in the world who survived the Nazi death camps (referred to in the above as The Holocaust). All of whom, I would surmise, after surviving said camps, would hardly be offended by said cartoons.

Fact: I actually quantified this using a complicated algorithm. Using verified sources, I completed an exhaustive study of the noted above death camp survivors, factored in the expected responses from same to the threatened Holocaust Cartoon Contest, and came up with a solid percentage. 74%, had they actually known about the referred to contest, would, given the parameters of the algorithm, would have said: BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

10% would have said "Cartoons? You're worried about cartoons? Your mother has had her boils lanced and you're worried about cartoons?"

5% would have said "Mohammed is MY bitch!"

The remaining 19% would have said, "I did my time, fatwa Vinnie!"

Conclusion: While the Ummah continues to rage about the Mohammed cartoons, no one will give a spit in the wind about the Iranian ones. That is not a bad thing. The civilized world has gone far to heal the wound that is the Holocaust, while the uncivilized are still unable to heal the wounds inflicted upon them by the birth of Mohammed.

Addendum: I would love it if the Iranian press would submit images of Christ as a trannie midget porn star, Buddha as a elephant humping bestialitist, and any other various and sundry defilements of world religions that they can muster. Because if they stay on the road they're on right now, soon they'll be printing their effluvium using one sharp stone against another, heiroglyphics style.

Addendum II: If you think I'm mocking the Holocaust, and those who endured it, I'm not. I'm mocking those who think that mocking the Holocaust would actually offend. Let's face it, peeps. If YOU had survived the death camps, would some lame cartoons in a Muslm newspaper offend you? As for those of you who think that the Iranian deal is offensive, treat yourself like a Jew in the death camps for a week. Starve yourself, beat yourself, and give your address to a known serial murderer. After that, nothing printed in any newspaper would offend you.

Nice try, Iran.

Posted by: Vinnie at 01:55 AM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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1 This is more complicated than you allude to. I know most of this was tongue-in-cheek, but the Iranians position is, "If Europe is so free let's see them prove it and print these cartoons." Now you know they will make cartoons which explicitly deny the holocaust and there are European countries which have made it against the law to deny it. So it's not likely, unless they promise amnesty, that anyone would be print at least those specific to denial.

I understand that freedom of speech also includes the freedom to "choose" whether to speak, but this is going to give them ground to stand on and show that there is a bit of hypocrisy going on in Europe.

Nevermind that this really has nothing to do with cartoons and everything to do with the freedom to choose what one will or will not say, but the Iranians and many others won't see that.

Posted by: Oyster at February 09, 2006 04:08 AM (YudAC)

2 Among the few things that offend me are the facts that it isn't legal to kill muslims, liberals, and other useless parasites on sight. Yet.
Civilization has never been saved by those who didn't want to get their hands dirty. I like getting my hands dirty.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 09, 2006 04:32 AM (0yYS2)

3 IM:
As do I! As do I! But this parasite analogy falls short of the shit that is sloppin'n floppin' around us. This is a highly "educated" breed of ...how do you say -things found in nappy's. Chesty'd be right at home-ammo or no. This is an aggressive viral form of State and Government funded incoherent slobs incapable of feeding themselves-hence the parasitical form. I don't care which planet they escaped from but here, lets just say, it's not going to be there homecoming party!

Posted by: forest hunter at February 09, 2006 05:13 AM (Fq6zR)

4 The Iranian cartoons will get no reaction worldwide except for a few complaints from prominent Jewish goups. Although they do fall under free speech, don't expect to see them printed outside the Middle East, not because the West thinks them too inappropriate to print, but becuase it would be a colossal waste of resources:

1) the headline "Islamic cartoons ridicule Holocaust, Jews" is about as shocking as: "Saudi Arabia found to contain vast quantities of sand, oil" and will help to sell about as as many newspaper copies. Okay, they may sell a few more Guardians, but that's it. After the first day, these new ones will disappear into the sea of anti-Jew cartoons already out there.

2)There will be no newsworthy reaction to this. A rabbi or two may say how insensitive the Iranians are, but there won't be any riots, destruction or bloodshed, so there's nothing to attract viewers / readers.

Posted by: Graeme at February 09, 2006 06:35 AM (FB00D)

5 You're right, Graeme. What I'll find interesting is CNN's response (as well as some other news sources). They won't print the Mohammed cartoons. Will they print the Iranian ones?

Posted by: Oyster at February 09, 2006 06:57 AM (YudAC)

6 We know by now that elections are a necessary but certainly not sufficient condition for producing free, stable societies. If you were to let a class-room of seven-year-olds vote on how they should be allowed to run their lives, you know the result. They would end school, legislate for compulsory chocolate and ice-cream, liberalise fussy rules on TV-watching and computer-game playing and institute a more relaxed approach to bedtime.

If you give the vote to a few million Palestinians in their current state, they will vote for the equivalent of chocolate, TV and ice-cream. They will endorse the annihilation of Israel, the mass murder of Americans and a holy war against infidels everywhere.

That's not to say that Palestinians have puerile minds. But in political-historical-cultural terms they are like children. They have been conditioned entirely for decades by an environment of repression and poverty, pushed around by corrupt leaders poisoning their minds with hateful bile for decades and decades.

That's why the US is surly right to force the pace of democratic change in the region. Fomenting a political revolution in the Middle East is the only real way to the world's long-term security.

Posted by: Paul -uk- at February 09, 2006 07:52 AM (PM/BC)

7 Holocaust cartoons would offend me. Any one mocking the Holocaust would offend me. They SHOULD offend any reasonable person.

There is a big difference between mocking a public figure and between mocking millions of average people who died at the hands of the Nazis.

Offended or no, freedom must include the freedom to be offended. Even when such offenses are disgusting and immoral.

Also, if a Newspaper offends the proper recourse is to boycott the newspaper or advertisors in it. My family got rid of the L.A. Times because it was a liberal rag. A rational person does not boycott an entire country for the acts of an individual newspaper.

Posted by: Rusty at February 09, 2006 08:13 AM (JQjhA)

8 "Also, if a Newspaper offends the proper recourse is to boycott the newspaper or advertisors in it. My family got rid of the L.A. Times because it was a liberal rag. A rational person does not boycott an entire country for the acts of an individual newspaper."

Good point. I should adjust my thoughts about this now. While I considered their boycott of Danish products a reasonable reaction and while they are free to do so, I realize that maybe it's not so reasonable at all.

Posted by: Oyster at February 09, 2006 08:50 AM (sMLtC)

9 Oyster, it's not reasonable, but it is a hell of a lot better than murder and mayhew, that's for sure. And a boycott passes for rational behavior in the cesspool of the ME and Muslim-dominated ...nations, for lack of a better word.

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 09, 2006 10:11 AM (rUyw4)

10 That's true too JJ. And if I had to make a choice between a national boycott and bombings, I guess you know which I'd take. Rusty's point is still valid in thinking it through.

It seems these people only behave in degrees of unreasonablness rather than entertain the idea that there might be an actual "right way" to do something. If the idea is to boycott all Danish products, it kinda puts a crimp in the buying practices or the export of goods of Muslims in Denmark doesn't it? They don't think things through to their logical conclusion. They could be bankrupting a Muslim owned dairy in Denmark who exports to the Middle East. Or a Muslim cheese manufacturer.

The Danish ham business shouln't be in much of a pinch because they don't buy those anyway. On the other hand, the Danish flag business is probably booming!

Posted by: Oyster at February 09, 2006 11:51 AM (sMLtC)

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