Posted on 10/27/2018 4:32:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
The ECHR ruled against an Austrian woman who claimed calling the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile was protected by free speech. The applicant claimed she was contributing to public debate.
An Austrian woman's conviction for calling the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile did not violate her freedom of speech, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.
The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled that Austrian courts carefully balanced the applicant's "right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected, and served the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in Austria."
The woman in 2009 held two seminars entitled "Basic Information on Islam," during which she likened Muhammad's marriage to a six-year-old girl, Aisha, to pedophilia.
Limits of free speech
The marriage according to Islamic tradition was consummated when Aisha was nine and Muhammad was around 50. Aisha was the daughter of Muhammad's best friend and the first caliph, Abu Bakr.
The court cited the Austrian women stating during the seminar that Muhammad "liked to do it with children" and "... A 56-year-old and a six-year-old? ... What do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?"
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Why in God’s name did we fight for these peoples freedom over 70 years ago? For what?
Normal civilized people do NOT marry children. Barbarians and criminal perverts do. Simply saying that this is unacceptable in a civilized society is not hate speech.
-—I just con’t see where Liberals here or in Europe make allowances for such barbaric behavior. Yet they do.
Further Liberals want to punish normal people who say this is wrong.
Realize that this is normalizing sexual crimes against children...and it won’t stop with muslims.
Are Liberals really so blind that they cannot see the consequences of what this will bring?
-—Or do they willingly embrace this evil into our midst?
seeing what is happening in the EU, I cannot justify bring in violent, 3rd world barbarians into our country.
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