Dutch MP will not be prosecuted for cartoons
Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Arts/Entertainment, Commentary, Events, Free Speech, Hidden Crimes, Israel & Jewish Issues, Opinion, Race, Religion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories
Dutch prosecutors yesterday declined to put far-right MP Geert Wilders on trial for distributing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
But they found that a Holocaust-denying cartoon in a separate case was punishable. The prosecution service had received complaints about Wilders reproducing controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet on his website, as well as their display on a television programme.
It had also received complaints about two cartoons published on the website of the Arab-European League (AEL) lobby group, one of which allegedly shows Jews denying that the Nazi Holocaust happened.
The Danish cartoons and their reproduction were not punishable, the prosecution service said in a statement.
“The cartoons are about the Prophet, but don’t say anything about Muslims. None of the cartoons are offensive towards Muslims or contribute to hatred, discrimination or violence against Muslims,” reiterated the statement.More
The Holocaust cartoon “is punishable because it offends Jews on the basis of their race and/or religion.”
I am uneasy about the prosecution of any cartoons, but accept the distinction here – that the Holocaust cartoon spreads race-hatred, but the Mohammed ones do not. Indeed, hatred in the case of the latter was spread not by the cartoons but by the absurdly violent reaction to them. Source
Will someone PLEASE send these MUSLIMS back to the sandbox they crawled out from.