Iran holds an anti-Islamic State cartoon contest

Not long after staging a cartoon contest satirizing the Holocaust, a group in Iran launched another event — this time, aimed at the Islamic State extremist group.

According to its organizers, Iran’s House of Cartoon, the anti-Islamic State cartoon contest has received more than 800 submissions from countries as far afield as Brazil and Australia reports Ishaan Tharoor in The Washington Post. The entries, some of which can be seen in this video by Iran’s Press TV, attack the militant group for its bloodlust and perfidy.

One image depicts the wild beard of the Islamic State’s shadowy leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as a nest of sharp, blood-stained knives.