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An Arab organization is to be put on trial in the Netherlands over its publication of a cartoon deemed offensive to Jews, prosecutors say. The cartoon, published by the Arab European League (AEL) on its website, questions the Holocaust. The cartoon shows two men standing near a pile of bones at “Auswitch”. One says “I don’t think they’re Jews”. The other replies: “We have to get to the six million somehow.” AEL said the decision to prosecute illustrated bias against Muslims. It said the same standards were not applied to the Dutch politician Geert Wilders (pictured), who made a film including cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Last month prosecutors said they would not put the far-right MP on trial for distributing the controversial Danish cartoons, which caused a storm of protest after their publication in 2005. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports.

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