Denmark upholds conviction of radical for flyers urging Jews to be killed
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The spokesman for a radical Muslim group that urged people to kill Jews had his conviction of violating Denmark's anti-racism law upheld Friday.
Fadi Abdullatif, the Danish spokesman for the Hizb-ut-Tahrir group, was convicted of breaking the country's anti-racism laws and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence in October 2002, but appealed.
The Eastern High Court upheld his conviction and the sentence.
Members of the group passed out handbills outside Copenhagen mosques in spring 2002 quoting a verse from the Qu'ran: "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out."
The text of the flyer, which was also posted on the group's Web site, called Jews "people of slander" and said they should be killed.
Wow. A 60-day suspended sentence.
Shabbat Shalom.
