Australian says cartoons 'maliciously' entered in Holocaust contest

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Last update - 07:25 14/02/2006


Australian says his cartoons were 'maliciously' entered in Iran's Holocaust contest

By News Agencies

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - One of Australia's best-known cartoonists, Michael Leunig, said Tuesday an Iranian newspaper withdrew two of his illustrations from its Web site after someone "maliciously" entered them in a contest about the Holocaust.

Leunig said he learned late Monday that two of his drawings from four years ago had been submitted to Hamshahri, one of Iran's top newspapers, as an entry to a competition launched in response to a series of aricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

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The first drawing shows a ragged-looking man with a Star of David on his back walking toward the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 with the words "Work Brings Freedom" over the entrance.

The second drawing in the series shows the same man carrying a rifle walking toward another gate in Israel with the words "War Brings Peace" over the entrance.

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[Purveyor]

1. And of course there was nothing "malicious" with the Muslim smears, ..

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Did you read the article?

[Briar]

3. Reading on, I see that

"The two Leunig cartoons were rejected for publication by The Age, the newspaper where Leunig's work most often appears, in 2002...

"The Age's then-editor Michael Gawenda said in 2002 he had rejected the cartoons because they went beyond the limits he set for discussion of the Middle East."