In Tehran, Iran there are over 200 Holocaust cartoons on display at a museum that, according to the exhibition organizers, will test the West’s commitment to freedom of speech. The cartoons were chosen from nearly 1,200 entries, which were sent in response to the competition announced in February. People from all across the globe submitted pieces. One such cartoon shows the Statue of Liberty with a book on the holocaust in one hand and giving a Nazi salute with the other.

The exhibition is seen as a backlash to the controversial Muhammad cartoons, which portrayed the prophet as a suicide bomber, and were circulated in certain western publications. Not only were the cartoons prejudice but blasphemous as well, since it is a sin in Islam to create the image of religious figures. Masoud Shojai, the exhibition organizer said, “You see they allow the Prophet to be insulted. But when we talk about the Holocaust, they consider it so holy that they punish people for questioning it”. The Israeli Holocaust authority, Yad Vashem commented, “Iran, a nation that aspires to nuclear capabilities, and whose president has made genocidal statements against Israel, is a flashing red light signaling danger not only to Israel, but to all enlightened nations”.

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