how is this fair?

(CNN) Iran Gives Holocaust Cartoon Prize
"The organizers of the exhibit -- meant as a response to the Danish
cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammed that enraged many Muslims --
awarded Abdollah Derkaoui $12,000 Wednesday for his work depicting an
Israeli crane piling large cement blocks on Israel's security wall and
gradually obscuring Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. A picture of
Auschwitz appears on the wall."

"The U.S. State Department has slammed the exhibit at Tehran's Museum
of Contemporary Arts, calling it an outrageous attempt to "denigrate
the horror that was the holocaust.""

and the danish cartoon was not as offensive to the us? how is that fair?