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| Austrian legislator convicted of anti-Muslim incitement |
| 2009-01-24 |
| Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted Thursday of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam's prophet Mohammed was a paedophile. A court in Winter's home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros (31,000 dollars) euros and a suspended prison term of three months, Austrian news agency APA reported. The politician, who took a seat in parliament last fall for the Freedom Party (FPOe), made the anti-Islamic remarks in January 2008. She also proposed in a discussion with students that Muslim men should commit bestiality rather than making "indecent advances" on girls. The politician had pleaded innocent Thursday, claiming that she "did not want to insult anyone, but only to point out problems." The verdict is not yet legally binding. Winter's son Michael, a former youth leader in the Freedom Party, was convicted of the same crime last October. He had suggested in a newsletter that Turkish Muslims were in the habit of committing bestiality. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Correct on all counts, AlanC. I don't see any civil wars, here or there, but there is the question of whether "there" will gain some cultural confidence to deal reasonably with both arrogant immigrants and native nitwits. But this incitement stuff is typically creepy European lack of freedom. Fines for speech? How about ridicule and censure within the elected body of which she's a part? BTW, isn't Graz Ahhhnuld's home town? |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-01-24 12:18 |
| #4 Just remember that fascism is a philosophy of the Left, not the Right. Government control is the key determinant. It doesn't much matter whether the government owns the factories or owns the decision making for the factories, it's still government control. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-01-24 12:06 |
| #3 You know, when the "Right" in these countries finally turn on the Left, it will be with a savagery that the Left can hardly imagine. It will make the Fascism of the first half of the 20th Century look tame by comparison. Just as when the Right in this country has its fill of the treasonous Left, the backlash will be awesome to behold. When that happens, if the Leftist ideology isn't ruthlessly and thoroughly excised from this land, it will all have been for naught. I'm convinced we're heading for both another World War and a Civil War with the battle lines arranged along political ideologies. I just haven't been able to figure out which is likely to happen first. I'm leaning towards the World War first, and then the returning Patriots deciding to capitalize on the situation to gut the internal enemies. First the traitors, then the enemy! Long live the USA! |
| Posted by: Spusosh the Prolific6862 2009-01-24 11:20 |
| #2 I thought truth was supposed to be the ultimate defence in defamation accusations? |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-01-24 10:44 |
| #1 Good dhimmis. Idiots. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-24 00:04 |