Then how could you be a Jew? Isn't God the one who told you, that you were a Jew in the first place? The best answer I received was from one of my friends. She told me, "It's just a feeling." That was an interesting answer. I always figured I must be a Jew after that. I always felt more Jewish than anything else. Maybe it was the Salsman, Saltzman split off in our family. It seems the brothers fought and changed their names. Anyways, Is it just a feeling, for Michael's lot?

The Israeli ambassador to Sweden (who I believe is not "khareidi" or even "dati") knocked over a lighting fixture to an art exhibition that featured a suicide bomberette floating in a sea of blood, and lipstick to match.

As the term nazi is synonymous with psychopathic behavior and pure evil, calling someone a nazi should be reserved for someone who is psychopathically evil Unfortunately, people who should know better like to use the term to attack anyone with whom they disagree . For example, I saw a prominent African American who was an official of the NAACP refuse to condemn Julian Bond's comparison of the Republican Party to the Nazis. This use of this vile curse when not warranted only makes the accuser look like a self-serving and ignorant liar. With that said, the use of the term nazi to describe the president and other rulers (including the mad mullahs) of Iran is appropriate because these monsters are evil psychopaths. Like the nazis, they advocate genocide of the Jewish people. The Hitler nazis wanted all of Europe's Jews to be murdered. The Iranians want to start with murdering the Jews of Israel on their way to having their brand of Islam rule the world. Thus, their obscene and disgusting mockery of the Holocaust is so evil that one cannot even begin to understand their level of moral depravity. The world better take notice of these remorseless and psychopathic maniacs before another global conflagration begins.

Pubescent-minded men who give up human sacrifices for sex with imaginary virgins have nuclear capability. Meanwhile, Iran says "My mullah can beat up your mullah" to other mohammadists, and now it's "My cartoon is meaner than your cartoon." Wow. . . and they cry about being stuck in the 17th century. Iran, you are your own worst enemy.

Iran is in quite a nasty mess. So do they focus on their real problems? No, they try to distract the Iranian people with hatred of Jews. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=21973 Maybe it is time to help the Jews of Iran come home to Israel.

Will the world see Jews burning flags and embassies in response to the revolting competition launched in Iran. Course not! And that sums up the difference between Jews and Muslims. The responses to things they find difficult. One nation behaves civilised and responsibly. And the other - well....

Ahmadinejad/Hitler will use any excuse to disseminate anti-Jewish/anti-Israel filth. (What do Scandinavian Mohammed cartoons have to do with the Holocaust anyway?) Muslim hypocrisy exposes their vicious racism and blatant fascist ideas. (Take a look at the texts of the neatly printed posters in those so-called protests: "Exterminate those who slander Islam", "Slay those who insult Islam") As Qaradawi said: "We demand an international law forbidding religions from being humiliated." But what he really means is: "We demand an international law forbidding Islam from being humiliated." I'm sure he'd probably condone Ahmadinejad's anti-Jewish slop and the rest of the anti-Jewish/anti-Israel garbage that is published and broadcast daily in the Arab and Muslim media.

The president of Iran is a complete idiot and contradicts himself. It's not good to humiliate Islam, but it's alright to humiliate the Jews. The cartoons, did not originate with Israel or a Jew, but he attacks back, at the Jews. He denies the holocaust ever happened, but his ammunition is humiliating the Jews with images of the holocaust. What did he fry his brain with? The guy is a nutcase, how does someone like this come into power? He continues to embarrass himself in the eyes of the world.

Obviously you've only read the biased articles that state that Muslims retalliate in this fashion because of humiliation of the prophet Muhammad. How often have you read that Islam prohibits the desecration of any prophets, Jesus and Moses to name a few. You obviously are not aware that the rioters represent 1/1000th of the Islamic community. Remember the news is a highlight, and assumes you are intelligent and capable of delving into a subject beyond what is stated. Use spell check next time and if you know where your library is, check out the book "The Idiots Guide to Understanding Islam".

Maybe these fanatics are 1/1000th of the Muslim population, but where are the other 999/1000th's that stand with 'the west' and speak out against these fanatics, and truly try to live in peace with western culture and Israel? These fanatics are influencing people's attitudes to Islam and the middle east, as well as political stability in the world, so if you want to defend your religion, speak out against these injustices. They might be Muslim, but apparently they are not your brothers. You won't verbally attack them for speaking their minds, but are you afraid they will physically attack you for speaking yours?

Lets start a cartoon contest for terrorists, we could start with a cult leader, no never mind its been done already.

In other times, it would be legitimate to ask ourselves if the cartoon triggered Islamist absurdity, or if Islamists hatred for the non-islamic pupulation triggered the infamous cartoons.... I think we do have the answer right now......

And I suppose yuo consider yourself one of those"ILLETERATE???FOLKS??

May I suggest we have a contest for the most Ignorant,Stupid,Mentally disturbed Puppet Racist Anti-semite;Smuck,ever to hold the place of "President"of aRacist,regime.And THE WINNER IS;;;;;;;;;;;;;!!!!!!!!!

Its a disgrace to uphold the fact that leading politiians of this world cannot embrace the religious concern which is widely spread across the world. This religious concern is the deliberate mocking of the role model which billions of Muslims look up to around the world. This role model is the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) and I am disgusted and highly appalled that such an important role model is presented in such a revolting manner. I stand by the protests in order to seek justice in this criminalised world which mocks the beliefs of others and it is utterly sad to hear that the honest and hard working muslims cannot rely on their country leaders to guide them to justice. So if they can't deliver the single enforcement which muslims need today which is pride then who can. I say protest you hearts out.

for a wife. In America we jail pedophiles while in other countries they are venerated. Young girls perfer the American solution when given the chance to escape molestation.

Let me make this clear, I have nothing against the followers of the true Torah. I even have Jewish friends, however, Zionism, I do not agree with. Like Iran's President said, if the Europeans commited mass murder against the Jews, why should they not give a part of their lands in exchange of the commited dammages? Why should the Palestinians give their land? Let me just remind you that before WW1, Jews, Christians and Muslims lived peacefully in the Holy Land, which was under Muslim rule. Some of you should really take a history class (or IQ test) before being allowed to post replies in here. Here are replies to some messages I have read so far.. % To #1: URL didn't work. Also tried putting 'www.' in front, no go. % To #4 >>> Muslims continue to show he reality that is Islam: dishonor, hate,mass murder, and moral transgressions: Muslims accomplish mass murder? They hate and accomplish moral transgressions? How so? >>> they will ALWAYS choose trrorism and genocide over peace and harmony. How so? Was it not the Muslims that were constantly launched war uppon by the Crusaders? Was it not the Muslims that let the Christians, Jews and Muslims live in the Holy Land? Was it not under the rule of Muslims that no violence existed in the Holy Land? % To #5 >>> Who cares, they do it daily anyway. Can you back this? >>> We will not act violently in response nor will we blaze any embassies. You may not, but history shows that you have in fact acted violently in a not so far past against authorities using terrorism. For exemple: "Groups such as the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi attacked the British that culminated in the destruction of the British military headquarters in Palestine – the King David Hotel." % To #7 >>> With Islamists, you hit their knee and their arm slaps the Jews. Not exactly. The "Islamists" as you wish to call them are only trying to point how double-standards are dominating the world. Insult 1/5th of the humanity's religous beliefs = Fine. It's freedom of press/speech!. Ask questions about the Holocaust = You're an anti-semite! (mind you, Arabs are semite) Jail time! Is this or is this not hipocrisy! % To #8 >>> I have a cartoon of monkey boy sodomizing Mohammed. Thank God, I know that most Jews are not like that. Your true face is right there. Makes one wonder what kind of education you had. % To #9 >>> Bomb Iran now! Again, why!? Are they not allowed to have their own views about the Holocaust? Are they somehow insulting your religious beliefs?! % To #10 >>> I say the only funny thing will be when Mr Almajanaed gets a bullet in the head!! See reply to #8 % To #12 >>> Iran's president will be shown, bent over with a target on his bare butt. See reply to #8 % To #13 >>> How's that news? They have a holocaust cartoon at least once a month Proof? % To #14 >>> Seems fair to me . . . NOT! See reply to #7 % To #17 >>> I say again: critiquing a philosophy is not the same as attacking people in any manner because of their ethnic, national, religious, sexual or other belonging. See reply to #7

% To #20 >>> You spout divisive crap that puts jews at one anothers throats---rather than uniting them, for a common cause. What's wrong with recognizing one's mistakes? If 20,000 believe the earth is flat, and one of them realises that it isn't, and puts an argument forward to prove his theory, how is he a traitor? >>> So why does Ynet let you post like one. Hey, what happened to freedom of speech! :) % To #21 >>> But I realize that Michael Steiner is ONE OF THOSE jews who rejects Torah and religion. Nonsense. Lots of jews are anti-zionism. www.jewsagainstzionism.com % To #22 >>> why the holocaust? See reply to #7 % To #27 >>> How is Ahmadinejad going to expect people to come up with images of something he's said never even happened in the first place?. That's easy. I'm not saying it should be done. But it is easy. Exemple: Hitler and a Jew shaking hands in front of Aushwitz. What about that? % To #28 >>> AND THAT THEY WILL RIOT OVER A CARTOON A cartoon that insults their Prophet, nonetheless. I see perfect logic behind that. Their Prophet is more dear to them than their mothers. Would you not express disgust if your mother was insulted? >>> ANDREA MERKEL, THE CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY COMPARED THEM TO HITLER AND THE EARLY NAZI PARTY. Well, what can I say, freedom of speech! Merkel can say anything she wants (without insulting others, of course), that doesn't make it right. Bush was compared to Hitler too, by Germans. WW2 Jewish survivors compare some of the Israeli Government policies to Nazism too! Exemple: Community punishment. Bulldozing of whole communities' homes. What do you say about that? >>> THE QUESTION IS, WHO IS GOING TO TAKE OUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES? MY BET IS ON ISRAEL, THE BRAVEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Bravest country in the world? Well, that is rationnal. Every citizen will say that about his country. Anyways, here are some facts for you, my dear. Iran's facilities are deeply buried. Israel's Dimona reactor is not. Iran can easily hit Dimona. Iran _WILL_ hit Dimona if its own facilities are attacked. Do you still think Israel will "TAKE OUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES"? % To #33 >>> mad mullahs Why do you chose to insult them? >>> the term nazi to describe the president and other rulers (including the mad mullahs) of Iran is appropriate because these monsters are evil psychopaths. Why so? How are they "monsters [and] evil psycopaths"? >>> like the nazis, they advocate genocide of the Jewish people. If that was true, they would start with their own country. Fact is, there are Jews living in Iran. That clearly shoots down your statement. >>> Thus, their obscene and disgusting mockery of the Holocaust is so evil that one cannot even begin to understand their level of moral depravity. The Holocaust, mainly the Aushwitz story, do not (scientifically, mathematically) make sense. It is in their right to question it. Is that not freedom of speech/thought? % To #34 >>> Iran Is Run By Pubescent-Minded Boys Mind you, Ahmadinejad was a civil engineer and an assistant professor at the Iran University of Science and Technology. What about you? Enough said. >>> Wow. . . and they cry about being stuck in the 17th century. Nonsense? % To #36 >>> One nation behaves civilised and responsibly. And the other - well.... See replies to #7 and #5 % To #38 >>> OXyMORON See replies to #34, #33 and #7

In order to make us understand exactly how hurt and humiliated they felt by the “Mohammed pictures” they made this contest, humiliating pictures of the most horrendous act in modern history, waiting for the western worlds uproar and they then would be able to say: - This is how we feel about the “Mohammed pictures” so do not come to us and talk about the freedom of press! What the Hamshahri newspaper can not possible understand is that the western world joke about EVERYTHING including the holocaust - haven´t we all heard the: How many Jews can fit in a VW beetle? (2 in the front seat, 3 in the backseat and 612 in the ashtray) During the fathom of Biafra; - Why do they sell so many straws in Biafra? (They use them as sleeping bags) And who can forget the “All the children”- jokes? My personal favourite; All the children crossed the road, accept Rolf - he is stuck in the grill of a Golf. We heard some absolutely horrid ones on incest and everything else that we have a hard time dealing with - we vent this by making jokes about it. But how would the Hamshahri newspaper know and understand this? How could they understand that we really mean that the freedom of the press includes EVERYONE´s opinions, even the weird, tasteless and the downright mean ones!? So let them have their contest, let them see that we accept tastelessness from Iran too and not just Denmark, let them see the benefits of a free press and lets applaud them of this civilized “attack”.

I started to read your rather verbose response, and saw in the very first item that you either are an adept Musim liar, or are not very familiar with the facts. You state that under Muslim rule, ALL faiths lived peacefully in the Holy Land. Simply put, that has no basis in fact and is actualy quite the opposite. Under Ottoman rule, any Jew caught praying at the Kotel (Western Wall) was subject to IMMEDIATE EXCECUTION by the imperialst military. That IS the fact, and that appears to be YOUR version of "peaceful coexisting". Only since 1967 have ALL religions, Jew, Christian, Muslim, BAHAI, or any other has there been COMPLETE AND FULL AND FREE access to all Holy sites for ALL. Even under Jordanian rule, East Jerusalem was restricted with Jews refused admittance and Christians restricted. So perhaps you should rview the FACTS! It took the Jews to bring religious freedom. Now if you would like your diatribe refuted line by line - it will be my pleasure! Let me know!

How telling that an intelligent response for Hamshahri is to seek to "cartoon" the relatively recent murder of 6 million of their fellow planet's inhabitants - but an understanding of what freedom of the press means and WHY it's so important seems to be so clearly missing. Seeking instead to distance themselves and denounce the culture of death might be a more spiritual path and one to be admired. The rest of us on the planet read the papers too and daily wonder if anyone will cease the "hitting back" mentality and spiraling tragedy thus perpetuated. The Old Testament mentality doesn't seem to be working - does it?

Oh Raz, you should open your eyes. The actions of the Islamic world is akin to a child throwing a tantrum. Cartoons, so what!? apparantly they have nothing better to do: 1)They can't complain about their own government or else.. 2)They have no reachable goals, no hope for their own or their childrens future so they try to prevent others from reaching theirs. 3) Israel is the whipping boy and believe me if there were no Israel, they'd have to make one up to blame their problems on. 4) Israel the only functional soceity in the region and lo and behold they have no oil! How do they do it? Free enterprise of course! Not by oppressing their own people. 5) The GDP of 2 Central American nations is higher than the GDP of the entire Arab World. Why? I'll tell you why. The money coming in from the oil exports is going into the pockets of the Mullahs, the Saddams and the "leaders" of these nations and not being put back into their countries own economy.

Daniel Pipes is a brilliant commentator who monitor Islamofascism long before 9/11. P.S. Have you noted that the Danish Imans who popularized the cartoons added several particularly inflammatory ones to provoke the conflict.

just wanted to sound as supid as some posters on this forum, #4 Christopher for example. On another note, look up the origin of the word Zealot and zeal.

You can dish it out, but you can't take it. Take a look at yourselves - your hatred of the West and of Jews everywhere. Your cartoons, violence and hate schools. You're not mature enough to live in a democratic, free society. You can't just burn, bomb and destroy when you get your feelings hurt. Grow up already and stop your whining. Furthermore - what does this have to do with Jews, Judaism or the Holocaust? Nothing. Your antisemitism is your religion - Hate is your God. You already practice idolatry.

Some people can’t take a joke. In fact, 1.3 billion people can’t take a joke. They’re called Muslims.

if they want to have a contest like that, that's their right and a creative way of making their point (rather than attacking embassies). i like it. only problem is when you to hanshahri's webpage, it's all in persian -- who the heck's gonna read that?

Obviously the cartoons offended Muslims.. If that is the case then out of respect you should not reproduce these offensive drawings. On the same token, drawing caricatures of the holocaust is quite distasteful also. I do believe in Freedom of Press and Freedom of Speech, but I also realize that with this comes consequences. Sure I have the right to degrade or critique whatever I want, but in doing so I am in some way responsible if someone comes after me in retaliation for something I have done that one deems offensive. It is obvious we have idiots on every side of this issue.

I can accept the holicaust cartoon contest as a protest but I cannot accept the uncivilized actions such as burning, killing, threathening. There is no justification for any form of violence. Unless the extremists behave in a non-violence fashion, otherwise, we will continue having problem like this.

"We condemn those who are attacking us when we do not attack them. We are bound by the laws of Allah and to his instructions," LOL!!! Since when is it only a muslim that can start a fight? As if printing cartoon was starting fights anyway, but this is so crazy I had a hard time stopping the laughter!