Posted on 04/02/2008 1:52:40 PM PDT by rmlew
The Austrian authorities have indicted politician Susanne Winter on charges of incitement and degradation of religious symbols and religious agitation. This offence carries a maximum sentence of two years. Last January, Ms Winter said that the prophet Muhammad was “a child molester” because he had married a six-year-old girl. She also said he was “a warlord” who had written the Koran during “epileptic fits.”
The politician, a member of the Austrian Freedom Party FPÖ, an anti-immigration party which is in opposition, added that Islam is “a totalitarian system of domination that should be cast back to its birthplace on the other side of the Mediterranean.” She also warned for “a Muslim immigration tsunami,” saying that “in 20 or 30 years, half the population of Austria will be Muslim” if the present immigration policies continue.
Following her remarks, Muslim extremists threatened to kill Susanne Winter and she was placed under police protection. Today, the Justice Department in Vienna announced that Ms Winter will be charged with “incitement and degradation of religious symbols” (Verhetzung und Herabwürdigung religiöser Symbole). If convicted she may have to serve up to two years in jail for her opinions.
However, Alfred Hrdlicka, the Austrian “artist” who depicted Jesus and his apostles engaging in homosexual acts of sodomy during the Last Supper, has not been indicted. Nor will he be. Depicting Jesus sodomizing his apostles is not considered to be a “degradation of religious symbols” in Austria, but referring to the historic fact that Muhammad married a six-year old girl is “incitement to racial hatred.”
Neither has Mr Hrdlicka been threatened by Christian assassins for his “opinions.” The difference between Christian and Muslim extremists is that the former do not aim to kill those who offend them, but the latter do – which is perhaps also why the European authorities fear the radical Muslims and persecute their opponents while they subsidize those who insult Christians.
Meanwhile, it has become clear that only 144 of the 785 members of the European Parliament have supported the proposal of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch politician who lives in hiding following death threats from Islamists, to establish a European fund to protect people who are stalked by assassins for their opinions. Ms Hirsi Ali is under de facto house arrest because the Dutch authorities are only willing to protect her while she remains in the Netherlands, but not when she travels abroad. Due to the lack of protection she is confined to hide-outs in the Netherlands.
Last month, Henk Hofland, a leading Dutch journalist, proposed that the Dutch authorities lift the police protection of Geert Wilders, another politician whom radical Muslims want to assassinate for his opinions. Several Dutch individuals and organizations have lodged complaints against Mr Wilders for incitement to racial hatred because he made a 15-minute film, called Fitna, to express his views about Islam.
VNO-NCW, the Federation of Dutch Employers, has ordered its lawyers to see whether it is possible to claim damages from Mr Wilders for the loss of income which Dutch companies may possibly suffer as a result of a boycott of Dutch products by Muslims who are angry at Mr Wilders and at the fact that the Dutch have not been able to shut him up. “Companies like Shell, Philips and Unilever are easy to recognize as Dutch companies,” VNO-NCW chairman Bernard Wientjes told the newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. “I do not know how rich Geert Wilders is, or how well insured he is, but if we suffer from a boycott, we will investigate whether it is possible to claim damages from him.” Last November, Doekle Terpstra, a member of the board of Unilever, called upon the Dutch to “rise in order to stop Wilders” because “Geert Wilders is evil and evil has to be stopped.”
Today in neighbouring Belgium the government’s anti-discrimination body CEOOR warned bloggers and websites to remove their links to Wilders’s movie. The CEOOR states that the movie aims to foster “fear, distrust and hatred of Muslims.” The anti-discrimination body has asked the Belgians to be “vigilant” and to report “cases of incitement to hatred and/or discrimination.”
Ping
Our brave young men died in vain. It makes no difference whether Europe was dominated by anti-Semitic barbarian Nazi fascists or anti-Semitic barbarian islamo-fascists. The result is the same, just the date is different.
I weep over all the white crosses above the bodies of dead Americans. So much sacrifice, and now it seems so senseless. The Europeans are so worthless it was not worth shedding a single drop of American blood for them.
If Ms. Susanne Winter gathers her strength, puts forth a call for assistanace, and has the determination to force the Austrian prosecution to bring the case to trial, her mark in history in history will be remembered akin to a Catholic saint, or to Martin Luther himself.
Really? I’m a history buff & I did not know that!
From now on, I’m eating nothing but croissants for breakfast!!! With pork sausage, too! A celebration every day!
Yup. Before Europe’s death spasms (which are virtually inevitable now), though, there will be a reckoning for these multicult dhimmi leftscum. And even if they survive, they will be the first ones killed under sharia law. The first would be justice, the second ironic justice...
http://www.socyberty.com/History/How-Bakers-in-Vienna-Invented-the-Croissant.78985
Please pass the croissant. I knew I liked those things....just never knew why. Send these sand rats back where they belong......the 17th century.
Two ponts: (1) That is true of Old Europe (although France of all places seems to be starting to come around), but not "New Europe" such as Poland. (2) If the fight gets bloody over there, we should still go and fight. Why? Certainly not to save their bacon once again, but rather because it is always best to have the battlefield somewhere else than on your own land.
Sadly I concur with your analysis and the thought that my father, uncle, and neighbors fought at the risk of their own lives while other men of valor and courage lost their lives freeing Europe from the death grip of Nazi totalitarianism only to see Europe now surrender and succumb to violent subhuman filth even more barbaric and genocidal than the Nazis, is disgusting and repugnant.
If the good men and women of Europe do not reject and overthrow the suicidal insanity of their politically correct ruling elite socialist political class, they will be led to the slaughterhouse and to their deaths as quickly and finally as the Jews were forced into the death camps, gas chambers, and ovens. Political correctness, a despicable, diseased, and discredited philosophy predicated on ameliorating cultural and racial guilt by insane sacrifices, overtures, and concessions even where it is either irrelevant or inapplicable, threatens the very survival of Europeans and European civilization itself.
In a sane society led by responsible and intelligent leaders, survival must always, always trump social and political considerations every damned time irrespective of everything else. The mindless and suicidal surrender and appeasement of overtly violent, genocide espousing, seditious trash is an invitation and a welcome mat for annihilation, not any form of reasonable accomodation for free speech or religious freedom. Religion cannot and should never be exempted as the basis of a violent belief system simply because it originates from a religious instead of political viewpoint.
Radical Muslims use religion and the innate respect modern western civilization has for free religious expression as a shield to protect their violent, racist, subversive, and anarchical ambitions, ambitions that would land any other organization or group that espouses similar violence and anarchy in court or prison.
Hmmmm, sounds like a maybe story. Supposedly Vienna was introduced to coffee at that time too...
From Wikipedia:
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Fanciful stories of how the bread was created are modern culinary legends. These include tales that it was invented in Poland to celebrate the defeat of a Muslim invasion at the decisive Battle of Tours by the Franks in 732, with the shape representing the Islamic crescent; that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Turkish siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Turkish flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Buda in 1686; and those detailing Marie Antoinette's hankering after a Viennese specialty.
Several points argue against the connection to the Turkish invasion or to Marie-Antoinette: saving the city from the Turks would have been a major event, yet the incident seems to be only referenced by food writers (writing well after the event), and Marie-Antoinette - a closely watched monarch, with a great influence on fashion - could hardly have introduced a unique foodstuff without writers of the period having commented on it. Those who claim a connection never quote any such contemporary source; nor does an aristocratic writer, writing in 1799, mention the pastry in a long and extensive list of breakfast foods. [3]
Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food states that no printed recipe for the present-day croissant appears in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the "fantasy or luxury breads" in Payen's Des substances alimentaires, 1853.
This suggests that the croissant was just becoming known at mid-century (though the puff pastry used to make it was already mentioned in the late 17th century, when La Varenne's "Le cuisinier françois" gave a recipe for it in the 1680 - and possibly earlier - editions.) By 1869, it was well-established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple [4] and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote (in his periodical "All the Year Round") of :
the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir table
[5].
However, it is possible - if not thus far documented - that there was a Viennese connection to the appearance of the croissant in France. Croissants today are one of a number of puff-pastry based items known as Viennoiserie - "Vienna-style items". The idea that Viennese-style rolls were finer seems to have started with a Boulangerie Viennoise - "Viennese breadstuff bakery" - that opened in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century: "This same M. Zank...founded around 1830, in Paris, the famous Boulangerie viennoise" [6]. Several sources refer to the superiority of this bakery's products: "Paris is of exquisite delicacy; and, in particular, the succulent products of the Boulangerie Viennoise"[7]; "which seemed to us as fine as if it came from the Viennese bakery on the rue de Richelieu"[8]. The following mention was written well after the croissant was common in France, and already mentions one common myth: "The croissant, which appeared in Paris for the first time at the boulangerie viennoise of the rue Montmartre, comes, effectively, from Vienna. It dates, I was told in that city, from the invasion of the Austrian capital by the Turks in 1683." [9]
Quoting Wiki on FreeRepublic really should be something akin to “Godwinning” - nothing personal to you of course, just I always giggle when someone quotes Wiki on this site. May as well quote DU as being authoritative.
the problem is taht the EU is a conspiracy to destroy European nationalism and cultures. The Eurabia conspiracy is just a logical consequence of self-hatred and hatred of the US endemic among the European elites.
I think this is the inevitable result of nihilism. Europe has embraced fascism, communism, socialism and hedonism. Now all that remains is a tired nihilism, as people long for their own destruction. Possibly civilization will survive in eastern Europe, but too many people in western Europe seem to have a masochistic self-hatred. These self-haters will attack anyone among them who still has a survival instinct.
“VNO-NCW, the Federation of Dutch Employers, has ordered its lawyers to see whether it is possible to claim damages from Mr Wilders for the loss of income which Dutch companies may possibly suffer as a result of a boycott of Dutch products by Muslims who are angry at Mr Wilders and at the fact that the Dutch have not been able to shut him up. “Companies like Shell, Philips and Unilever are easy to recognize as Dutch companies,” VNO-NCW chairman Bernard Wientjes told the newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. “I do not know how rich Geert Wilders is, or how well insured he is, but if we suffer from a boycott, we will investigate whether it is possible to claim damages from him.” Last November, Doekle Terpstra, a member of the board of Unilever, called upon the Dutch to “rise in order to stop Wilders” because “Geert Wilders is evil and evil has to be stopped.”
Brave internationalist capitalism at its best!
Wiki is unreliable as DU? That’s kind of silly. On non-politicized topics, such as say, the croissant, Wiki is as accurate as Britannica, IMHO. Of course on a topic say of “facism” or “Ronald Reagan” I wouldn’t trust it (any more than I would Britannica), and naturally real life is much bigger than politics... Only socialists deny that.
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