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Newspaper which published Mohammed cartoons refuses to publish offensive Holocaust ones, calling them a "tasteless media stunt".

Hypocrisy? Just maybe.

BBC story here.

Date: 2006-02-10 07:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com
And last year (as in before they printed the Mohammed cartoons) they'd refused to print cartoons taking the piss out of Christians....

Date: 2006-02-10 07:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com
Oops - which I see is mentioned in the piece you link to. And longer ago than I thought, too.

Date: 2006-02-10 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com
I'm surprised the powers-that-be at the Jyllands-Posten didn't say to the Iranian newspaper "You print ours and we'll print yours".

Date: 2006-02-11 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] balthial.livejournal.com
Yeah. I don't see the hypocrisy here. Or maybe they've just learned their lesson? I mean, the first wave of comics were *trying* to be offensive

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