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In reply to the discussion: An exhibition in Iran will mock the Holocaust [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)As has been previously stated here, what constitutes acceptable fee speech varies by country. In France it is illegal to deny the Holocaust. Any who doubt this can Google the name Professor Robert Faurisson or comedian dieudonne and see the limits of free speech in France. Or go to Paris and burn the tricoleur at the Place de la Concorde while singing a parody of La Marseillaise.
The cartoon contest sounds like a disgusting bit of ethnic religious hatred.
But many of the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo were also disgusting examples of ethnic and religious hatred.
Let a cartoonist post a picture of Jesus having sex with Peter, or His mother Mary having sex with a donkey and see how the outrage would mount in the United States. It is perfectly acceptable to mock Islam or the Prophet in the West. And THAT shows the limits of US tolerance for free speech.