Dutch open-mindedness?

[pas]

Published 20:02 19.08.10
Latest update 20:02 19.08.10
Holland Muslim group fined for publishing Holocaust-denying cartoon
Court calls cartoon 'unnecessarily hurtful' in appeal of a 2006 cquittal of the Arab European League.
By Reuters
Tags: Israel news Jewish world Holocaust
A Dutch Muslim group was fined 2,500 euros for publishing a cartoon which suggested the Holocaust was made up or exaggerated by Jews, a Dutch appeals court ruled on Thursday.

  The Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
 
Photo by: AFP  

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 no exception for the denial or trivialisation 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.

[Ognir]

i think something was already posted on this one

[pas]

Sorry i didn't spot it ,should i delete it?