And the Winner is....

Moroccan cartoonist Abdellah Derkaoui has won first prize in Iran’s bizarre “Holocaust Cartoon Contest.” This is the best they could do? A wall with a picture of the entrance to Auschwitz? Oh, I get it, Jews are like Nazis, doing to others what was done to them....oh the hurt, oh the pain. Ironically, I thought Iran did not recognize that the Holocaust happened, so why would Auschwitz bring up negative associations for them? The sick contest was initiated by Iran's President Ahmedinejad in response to the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed. The idea was to show the hypocrisy of the West, which would tolerate anti-Mohammed cartoons but would go bonkers over anti-Jewish or holocaust related cartoons. Well, the Iranian Jew-baiting cartoon contest took place and lookie, lookie lookie, not a single riot in Israel or anywhere in the West in response. No embassy was burned to the ground and no Muslim was murdered in the streets in response. Who is teaching who a lesson here? The Iranian's haven't figured out that the joke here is on them. I certainly have enough confidence in my own values as to have no problem showing this cartoon even though I find it offensive. I wonder if the Iranian government has the same level of confidence?

James Webb and Lessons in Make-Believe