Dutch to charge Arab group over Holocaust cartoon

Haaretz ^ | 9/2/09 | AP

[Eleutheria5]

Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they would charge an Arab-oriented cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests that the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust is a fabrication.

The public prosecutor's office in Utrecht in the Netherlands said the cartoon insults Jews as a group and is therefore an illegal form of discrimination.

T Advertisement he chairman of the Dutch arm of the Arab European League says it published the cartoon on its website to highlight a double standard in freedom of speech rules in which anti-Muslim cartoons are permitted but anti-Jewish cartoons are banned.

AEL spokesmen and creator of the cartoon, Abdoul Mouthalib Bouzerda, called the publication an act of civil disobedience.

The cartoon shows two apparently Jewish men standing near a pile of skeletons with a sign that says Auswitch, presumably representing the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

One pokes a bone with a stick and says I don't think they're Jews and the other answers, we have to get to the six million somehow.

[Eleutheria5]

Jews, of course, are rioting in the streets. There have been dozens of fatalities, hundreds of injuries and millions of Euros of damage, and the disorders go on unabated. Rabbinical authorities, rather than calling for calm, are egging the rioters on, and in one known instance at least, taking part in the looting and rampant lawlessness.

[counterpunch]

Thought policing is fascist, regardless of who is targeted.
Exploding Mohammads or Holocaust denial, it’s all still free speech.
Thank God we still live in America... for now.

[Eleutheria5]

Frankly, I don’t know why the Dutch bother with this nonsense. South Africa under Apartheid had all sorts of laws against speech that incites racial discord. That was what Biko was convicted of, in fact. The law is idiotic, and ought to be repealed if it’s constitutional. But while the group that published it is trying to prove one double standard, they’ve also proved another one as well. Publish a cartoon about an exploding Muhammad, and the Arabs riot. Publish a cartoon about perfidious Jews, and Jews yawn.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday they would charge an Arab-oriented cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests that the death of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust is a fabrication.

Now it's getting interesting!