Free speech goes on trial in Vienna

Stop the scourge of sharia. via Gates of Vienna.

One week from today Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff will go on trial in Vienna for “hate speech” — or, more precisely, for “denigrating religious teachings” — in a lecture she gave as part of one of her informational seminars about Islam.

Criminal procedure in Austria does not allow her or her attorney advance access to the tape of her seminar that was recorded by NEWS ( the Austrian newspaper which publicized her seminar, and which prepared the transcript which will being used against her in court). As a result, the entire tape will have to be played during the court session, which means that the proceedings may take more than one day.

Elisabeth is using the seminar transcript to prepare a point-by-point rebuttal of the charges filed against her. She will demonstrate that her statements represent an accurate account of sharia as established through a consensus of the scholars of Islamic law. Reliance of the Traveller by al-Misri, the most authoritative treatise in the Shafi’ite School of Islamic Law, will be one of her primary sources.

Elisabeth's Voice (small)Elisabeth’s Voice, the international initiative to provide funding for Elisabeth’s legal defense, has been an enormous success. Depending on how many days the trial takes, and how many levels of appeals will be necessary, she may now have enough in her fund to cover most of her legal costs.

To all those who contributed: we owe you an enormous debt of gratitude for your willingness to help Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff fight for the cause of free speech in Europe.

The list of participants in Elisabeth’s Voice has grown so long that I have put it below the jump.

I included every link I could find, but I know I must have missed some. If your blog is not on the list, and you publicized Elisabeth’s case (including a link to her defense fund website), please send us an email so that you can be added to the roll of participants.

Elisabeth’s Voice:


Find more information about Sabaditsch-Wolff’s plight and how to contribute to her legal fund at Gates of Vienna.

 

Related:

Help stop sharia in the West, support Elisabeth Sabbaditsch-Wolf (video)

Speaking about Islam illegal in Austria?

14 Responses

  1. We’ve posted about Elisabeth’s plight at the political information page I run at facebook:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANTI-CRAPTASTIC/127576023926747

    We promoted the page on facebook which is devoted to supporting her:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Elisabeth-Sabaditsch-Wolff/126382430752983?ref=ts

    It’s OK if we’re not on the above list though, I don’t think we directly linked her fund.

    Elisabeth is in my thoughts and prayers, may freedom prevail. Thank you for keeping us updated, Creeping Sharia.

  2. When there are enough of them, they try to take the government. Like what was attemped in the Philippines.

    The first people Islam will dispose of are the ones that supported them, the useful idiots of PC.

    We should declare Islam is a political system, hiding behind a burqua religion.

  3. Freedom of Speech is a human right, and if someone wants to criticize Islam, Islam has to learn to deal with, and Europe must protect one of its greatest contributions to the world — free speech. Will Europe go back to the times of the Spanish Inquisition?

    • Well, they’ve already practically muted the people in the UK with their hate speech laws meant to protect muslims from being offended.

      When there’s a confrontation between muslims & non-muslims they arrest the non-muslims because they’re afraid of what the muslims will do if arrested.

      These are the the last death pangs of cowardly European governments who simply don’t have the courage to fight back.

      The writing’s on the wall, you just have to read it.

  4. the “grass roots” organizing is the answer to the advancing of political islam. “political correctness” be damned.

  5. I try to tell people all the time about what’s happening to Elisabeth. So few have heard — particularly here in the United States!

    • conspiriacy of silence about anything bad if it has to do with MUSLIMS=- however you do see in my local paper and NYT etc most MSN a concerted and very apparently astroturfed effort to praise any ‘nice” Muslims, to show them as”normal” –

      THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE the media here is extremely pro MUSLIM- that story doesn’t fit their narrative- they write the stories first- actual news is secondary to the MESSAGE they create

      YES telling the TRUTH about ISLAM is a “hate crime” and the thought police will persecute you for not agreeing that ISLAM is a bbenign force- however anything goes for MUSLIMS- death threats, riots unreasonable demands, lawfare, insults to you and yours, all embraced by govt, libtards and media as freedom of religion.
      ISLAM is not a religion it is a political military ideology of supremacy and conquest- and must be treated as such. No reason we should have to ENABLE those who seek to destroy us by using our laws- these same “radicals” are SHUNNED arrested and KILLED by MUSLIM nations- peaceful Muslims are confused WHY in hell would we allow them FREEDOM to do their evil work- Yemen KSA Syria sure don’t “TOLERATE” them, why should we?

  6. BUT IN BRITAIN, MUSLIM YOUTHS ARE ALLOWED THEIR FREEDOM TO ISSUE DEATH THREATS AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS, WHICH NON-MUSLIMS ARE CORRECTLY BARRED FROM DOING THE SAME

    So this is one more strong reason why all patriotic Americans must wake up and join in the big battle against the rising tide of the evil Sharia Laws which is driving Islamism to take over Britain, USA and Western Europe first, and then go for world domination to subjugate the non-Muslims for their dysfunctional, backward, benighted and unnecessarily violent World Islamic Caliphate.

    Read this: Recently, two Muslim schoolboys have been excluded for making death threats to a non-Muslim classmate on Facebook – because he posted comments supporting British troops.

    The Muslim 12-year-olds threatened to attack a terrified Darius Gill, 13, with knuckle dusters and knives in revenge for not supporting Islamic extremists.

    The threats came hours after Darius – whose father is Asian – posted a touching tribute to the thousands of British soldiers who have lost their lives defending Britain.

    Shockingly, other pupils – who have set up a Muslim Defence League which celebrates British deaths in Afghanistan – also added comments condemning Darius. By Daily Mail Reporter Published 17/11/2010 12:55:54

    From: http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/boys_excluded_over_facebook_death.html

  7. Well done, “creeping”, for rallying support for Ms Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff !

    Must pray for her too!

    Amen!

  8. The financial success, people speaking with their pocket books, should be an indicator, even to musli-correct Austrians, that they are on thin ice!

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