Dutch Muslim group fined over Holocaust cartoon

[Jacaylbaro]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch Muslim group was fined 2,500 euros ($3,200) for publishing a cartoon which suggested the Holocaust was made up or exaggerated by Jews, a Dutch appeals court ruled on Thursday.

 

The court in the western city of Arnhem overruled an acquittal handed down by a Dutch lower court, saying the cartoon, published on the website of the Arab European League's (AEL) in 2006, was "unnecessarily hurtful."

 

"The court points out that the European Court of Human Rights, which considers freedom of speech of paramount importance and defends it thoroughly, makes an exception for the denial or trivialization of the Holocaust," the court said.

The court also imposed a 2-year probation period on the AEL

 

The cartoon shows two men in Auschwitz looking at several dead bodies. "I don't think they are Jews," says one man. The one man replies: "We have to get to the 6,000,000 (figure) somehow'. Six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

The Dutch group says it had no intention of disputing the Holocaust, but wanted instead to highlight what it described as double standards in free speech.

 

The AEL circulated it in 2006 after a Danish newspaper published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad which triggered an outcry among Muslims in many countries.

[Muriidi]

here's another one :

 

*how could this have happened ? the chances of another planet developing such a culture

like nazi-germany,it's uniforms and symbols of 20th century earth ..are so fantastically slim..

 

*virtually impossible captain,yet the evidence is quite clear

 

Star Trek the original series ,episode 50

title : Patterns of force

 

 

web page

 

 

[Valenteenah.]

^ Ha ha...brilliant episode!