An Arab cultural group faces trial for circulating a ‘Holocaust-denying’ cartoon as a reaction to leniency towards a far-right Dutch Islamophobe.

Dutch prosecutors said Wednesday that they would take the Arab European League (AEL) to court for republishing a cartoon which, they said, suggested Holocaust victims were not Jews, the Associated Press reported.

The group first published the picture in 2006 in response to far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders’ screening of a 17-minute defamatory anti-Islam film which linked Islam to terrorism, called for a ban on the holy Qur’an and included caricature of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH(.

The film, titled ‘Fitna,’ sent shockwaves through secular and faith-based communities and was subsequently denounced by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as ‘offensively anti-Islamic.’

The lawmaker was prevented from screening the inflammatory movie in Britain’s House of Lords in February, with the British officials calling him a “genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society.”

The AEL recently republished the cartoon after Wilders was cleared on the claim that his insults were aimed at the Prophet of Islam and not the Muslims in general.

“Freedom of expression is only a pretext to make life bitter for Muslims …,”AEL chairman Abdoulmouthalib Bouzerda said in a statement.

Spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Utrecht in the Central Netherlands said a conviction could result in a one-year prison term, but a fine of up to euro 4,700 (USD 6,700) is more likely.