Posted on 02/21/2011 7:55:44 PM PST by marshmallow
Well, that's what Perry Mason would have called it. But 21st century Europe is a long way from Erle Stanley Gardner. On Tuesday, in a story headlined "Austrian Court Upholds Islam's Blasphemy Rules", Nina Shea reported:
Today, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a young Viennese mother, was convicted under section 283 of the Austrian penal code of vilifying religious teachings for her negative commentary on Islam in a lecture before a political-party gathering in Vienna; she was fined 480 Euros. Sabaditsch-Wolff, a diplomat’s daughter, had lived and worked for several years in various Middle Eastern Muslim countries, and at the lecture in question spoke critically of the treatment of women and the practice of jihad in Iran, Libya, and other places that she had lived in.
Frau Sabaditsch-Wolff's case came up while I was off with various health issues, but I said a few words about it when I was in Ottawa. This was Austria's contribution to the hottest trend on the Continent - heresy trials. Officially, Mrs Sabaditsch-Wolff and Geert Wilders and Lars Hedegaard are in the dock as heretics against post-Christian Europe's new religion of "multiculturalism". But that's just a transitional stage. As I wrote of the Wilders trial:
The good news is that the Openbaar Ministerie is doing such a grand job with its pilot program of apostasy prosecutions you’ll barely notice when sharia is formally adopted.
Elisabeth's case attracted less attention than most of the others. In a follow-up, Nina Shea speculated as to why that might be:
This is probably due to the fact that she is an ordinary person and not an acclaimed writer, politician, or celebrity (think Mark Steyn, Geert Wilders, and Brigitte Bardot) — the most prominent examples of the growing ranks of Western Europeans and Canadians who have faced legal........
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It’s sort of mystifying, why you’d attempt to bait people into discussing what you dislike seeing discussed.
unbelievable
Thats whats being referred to.
LOL!
Are teachings of Ayatollah Khomeini protected?
Apart from Muhammad, one might then wonder if all derived Islamic works, like the 1990 book by Ayatollah Khomeni, Tahrir-ol-vasyleh, would also be protected from criticism under Austrian law? Among other teachings, it contains this stunning passage (Volume 4, p. 221):
“A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual acts such as foreplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed.
“A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not committed a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man’s four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl’s sister.”
http://europenews.dk/en/node/40340
We are in a 1400 year war against insane rape and murder cultists.
Tricky devils aren't they.
Next war, LET NONE ESCAPE.
This whole story is pretty shocking.
I love Mark Steyn!
That is so sick...islamist must think of women as beneath animals.
That is so sick...islamist must think of women as beneath animals.
Mohammed was a pedophile, so what’s the problem?
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