Muslim Group Fined for Holocaust Cartoon

(Arnhem, Netherlands) An appeals court in Arnhem has overturned a lower court verdict regarding a cartoon published by the Arab European League (AEL) in 2006.

Called "unnecessarily hurtful," the cartoon suggested that the Holocaust was fiction or exaggerated by Jews.

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 court fined the AEL a sum of 2,500 euros and imposed a two-year probation period on its activities.

It's not clear how the probation is to be enforced.