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Published on 3 April 2005

ISLAMIC WEBSITE CONDEMNED FOR "RACIAL HATRED"

The French Court of Appeals condemned the legal representative of the French Islamic website Islamiya for "public incitement to discrimination, hatred or racial violence". Khaled El Hasni was condemned to pay a fine of 1000 euros (1300 USD) plus 1500 euros (about 1950 USD) to each one of the four plaintiffs, J'Accuse, Lawyers Without Borders, the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and the French Union of Jewish Students.



According to Marc Knobel, President of the J'Accuse not for profit association, the decision of the Court of Appeals is setting an important jurisprudence: to parallel Israel and its army to the Nazis is an offence and an incitement to hatred against the people of Israel.

The Islamiya website had put on line two sets of photos, one depicting Nazi atrocities against the Jews and the other set showing scenes of the Middle East conflict. The caption was reading "O you, people of Israel, whose people has suffered so much, how can you now resemble to Hitler?"

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