Austria: Jihad Against Free Speech Continues--Another Truth-Teller In A Show-Trial In Europe

From Jihad Watch:

Jihad against free speech continues: another truth-teller in a show trial in Europe


Wilders may be cleared soon, as prosecutors have recommended. Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is still in danger, as are free societies in Europe, with dhimmi authorities in Austria, the Netherlands, and no doubt elsewhere as well only too happy to do the bidding of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and move to curtail the freedom of speech regarding Islam in the West. "Lawfare in Austria: Is Truth Illegal?," by A. Millar for The Weekly Blitz, October 13 (thanks to Regina):



Although the trial of Dutch MP and critic of Islam, Geert Wilders, and its serious implications for free speech in Europe, is once again creating a furor in the press, another high-profile trial of a critic of Islam -- Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, in Austria -- is being overlooked.

Ms. Sabaditsch-Wolff now faces up to a three-year prison sentence if convicted of "inciting hatred against a religious group" and "defamation of religion" in a lecture in 2009 on the "Islamization of Europe."



As allegedly criminal statements fill the indictments of "hate speech" prosecutions, as in the case with Mr. Wilders, the Dutch MP says that he spoken the truth, and the truth cannot be illegal.



If the authorities in the states of the EU have taken note of this axiom, the Viennese state attorney has not. He has taken an even more sinister approach to prosecuting Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff: No statements are listed in the indictment. Instead, her entire three-part seminar has been designated as incriminating.



I am "always careful to distinguish between Muslims and Islam," Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff says. That, apparently, does not matter.



Having spent most of her life in Muslim-majority countries, she has had much time to get to know Muslims as individuals, and to experience contemporary Islamic culture. She has lived in Kuwait; in Iran, as a child, at the time of the Islamic revolution, and, during the 9/11 attacks, in Libya.



Her stories are undoubtedly disturbing: two of her non-Muslim friends were attacked for breaking the Ramadan fast - one, a Coptic Christian, was assaulted for licking stamps at a post office; the other, for chewing gum. On another occasion, apparently, when Mrs. Sabaditsch-Wolff sat in her apartment watching the 9/11 unfold on television, and her landlord burst in exclaiming that "the Jews did it," she asked him to leave.



Such events, she says, with the 9/11 attacks as a catalyst, made her want "to learn more." She began by researching Islam, sharia, and Islamism; and later became a critic of, and activist against, "Islamization."...





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Posted by Robert on October 15, 2010 12:40 PM