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Offensive Cartoons Point Spotlight On Arab Leaders To End Double Standard On Jews And Christians

OFFENSIVE CARTOONS POINT SPOTLIGHT ON ARAB LEADERS TO END DOUBLE STANDARD ON JEWS AND CHRISTIANS

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said today that the worldwide protests in the Moslem world to the cartoonspublished in Europe raises the bar of what Christians and Jews have a right to expect from Arab and Moslem leaders when their religions are regularly defamed and desecrated in the Arab press andon Arab television.

“Today, the Foreign Minister of Egypt demanded from Kofi Annan that the Danes apologize and Jordan hasjailed the Editor of the newspaper that published the cartoons,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center. "But where are those same government leaders when theirtelevision stations and newspapers write or carry programs that deny the Holocaust, depict Jewish rabbis of draining the blood of Arab children to bake matzohs for Passover, and depict Jewishdoctors as carving out the eyes of Arab children to give to Jews? Then the response of the Arab world has always been their inability to interfere with freedom of the press,” hecontinued. “Apparently that inability no longer exists when Moslems are the target of defamation,” Hier concluded.

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