In fairness, they are just exhibiting free speech. (Okay, I know it's not really free speech when you only get to talk if the government is in agreement), but still we print cartoons of Mohammed and use the catch-all of our freedom to discuss anything we want, yet in many western countries, free speech doesn't really exist if you cannot deny that the holecaust really happened without being condemed for it.

I would imaging they are doing this so that they can illicit an outraged response from the west, so that they can in turn show us as being hipocritical about our printing of the Mohammed cartoons. The best thing to do would be to ignore it, unfortunately the angry "downtrodden" of the world have started shouting out their outrage and given the Iranian government exactly the amunition they wanted.

Hell, if people want to say that the holecaust didn't happen, then we should let them, if people want to say that blacks aren't as smart as whites, or that hispanics are criminally inclined, or that gays are all child molesters, or that people with blue eyes are more likely to steal than those with browns, then we should allow everyone to voice their opinion. Of course, we will judge those people, and invariably laugh at them, but we should allow them to say it.

I do get annoyed when people play the Jewish/Race card whenever anything adverse happens to them.

Wasn't their a story yesterday about some Rabbi demanding that an airport put up a Menorah (sp?) because they had Christmas trees up? And even threatening legal action over it. These people unfortunately proliferate the bigots and racists in the world by giving them examples, by which their entire people are judged. But I am meandering off course. My point in raising this is that we have become too sensitive to the views of some people (in my opnion) while actively ignoring the views of another group of people. Either we treat everyone the same, or we admit that we are bigots. We cannot have it both ways.

* Note: I actually don't believe we should have freedom of speech. I draw the line at incitement to violence/crime.