Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (Gates of Vienna)
(Hat tip to Gates of Vienna)
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who is being prosecuted in her native Austria for "hate speech", has written the below article regarding her speech in Luton yesterday. The article appears in Gates of Vienna, from which it is cross-posted.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/02/elisabeth-sabaditsch-wolff-in-luton.html
1 comment:
"Gates of Vienna" is running a ludicrously anachronistic theme. Sabaditsch-Wolff is either a cheap damagogue, or a deluded fool. I could put together the same sort of denunciation of Christianity based on direct citation of Scriptures accepted by the Christian faith, and many of the really lurid passages would be from the Sefer Tanach (Jewish Scriptures).
That said, the charges against her are ludicrous. The fundamental problem is that European states are looking at "human rights" through the framework of their traditional Establishment of Religion. Ergo, if a religious faith is "legally recognized" it IS, ipso facto, some sort of crime to denigrate it. The only difference is, they are being terribly "liberal" about recognizing all kinds of churches that they used to merely "tolerate."
Here in America, any citizen can practice any religion, associate for that purpose, and critique any other religion for any reason that seems good to them. That is as it should be.
Although I have no respect for Elisabeth, and wouldn't lend even the most modest credence to her vituperative screed by attending one of her soap-box speeches, I would of course defend her legal right to make an ass of herself without prosecution.
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