Qld:Paper says cartoon tests speech freedom

AAP General News (Australia)
02-16-2006
Qld:Paper says cartoon tests speech freedom

A central Queensland giveaway newspaper says it's only testing the notion of free speech
.. by sending a cartoon of the Holocaust to a competition run by an Iranian newspaper.

The Rockhampton-based Weekend Choice yesterday emailed a copy of their cartoon to Iran's
best-selling newspaper Hamshahri.

It depicts a western man holding a Muslim by the throat .. as he's about to deliver
the punchline on an old joke about how many Jews you can fit in a Volkswagen.

The paper's editor ALEX TERNOWETSKY says the cartoon's only testing the notion of free
speech and isn't an anti-Semitic retaliation.





The competition's being run in retaliation for cartoons depicting the Prophet MOHAMMED.

The Weekend Choice has already been printed and will be available in central Queensland tomorrow.

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