Here is background about Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s case, a case with extraordinarily important implications for the future of the freedom of speech and of the free world in general. Please visit her website here.
In 2009, Mrs. Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff (ES) spoke at a series of seminars organized by the Austrian Freedom Party, which were advertised to and open to members of the public. At two such seminars, each attended by about 30 people, she made several statements about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. The seminars were also attended by an undercover journalist, whose publisher made a criminal complaint against Mrs. ES for the statements she had made.
The public prosecutor lodged an indictment against Mrs. ES and accused her of violation of Article 283 of the Austrian Criminal Code, which criminalizes the incitement of hatred.
The Court of 1st instance (Regional Court of Vienna) dropped this specific allegation, but convicted her on 15 February 2011 for disparaging religious doctrines under Article 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code.
Her appeals against this judgment was dismissed in Austria by the Court of 2nd instance (Superior Court of Vienna) on 20 December 2011 and the Court of 3rd instance (Supreme Court) on 11 December 2013.
After that, Mrs. ES lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in which, in particular, an infringement of Art. 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights (freedom of expression) was alleged.
By judgment of 25 October 2018, no. 38450/12, the Fifth Section of the ECtHR held that the appeal was admissible, but that there was no violation of Article 10 ECHR.
On 22 January 2019, Mrs. ES lodged a request for referral of the case to the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR (GC). The GC has not yet decided whether or not to accept the request for further consideration. We therefore do not yet know whether the case will be dealt with further and whether there will be an oral hearing.
In our view, the judgment of the ECtHR is in conflict with other decisions of the same Court which have given greater weight to the fundamental right to freedom of expression.
The case is so important because it concerns the core of the fundamental right to freedom of expression: criticism of religions is practically as important as criticism of politicians. If one suppresses the possibility of criticizing religions, this can lead to a chilling effect, which makes further discussion about religions more difficult.
The website is:
Buraq says
The correct link is http://www.friendsoffreespeech.org. There’s an ‘e’ missing from the above link.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Buraq.
Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says
Europe has made its own bed, America is unfortunately following those same tendencies
If on one single infamous day in NYC, Virginia, and Pennsylvania nearly 3000 Americans were killed by rattlesnakes, then on many occasions in the 18 years since, rattlesnakes were responsible for killing many more Americans at Christmas parties in California, foot races in Massachusetts, military bases in Texas, or gay bars in Florida, would we be here today specifically discussing and focusing on the threat posed by the “Fangs” of Rattlesnakes?
Would we ever be so fearful of offending the beautiful scales of rattlesnakes, or the lovely sounding rattles on the tails of rattlesnakes, neither of which have ever harmed anyone, that we would not simply identify the deadly threat posed as being “rattlesnakes”… period?
POLITICAL Islam, is Islam.
ISLAM, is political.
The threatening and often deadly POLITICAL practices of Islam can no more be separated from Islam than fangs can be from rattlesnakes,…
it’s a package deal.
Use caution when choosing those you play with, or dare I say “Coexist” with, but moreover be honest, truthful and realistic when having discussions in hopes of seeking solutions.
Terry Gain says
Yes. Every moderate Muslim is an adherent of the same conquest ideology resonsible for more killing than all other ideologies combined.
As a political ideology it is brilliant – looked only at its capacity to gain power. As a religion, it is an irrational joke. A carnal paradise. Seriously? Entry to heaven is guaranteed to those who are killed while killing for Allah. Seriously? Muslims are the best of people. Seriously? A woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s testimony. Seriously.
In 2019 Islam is welcomed into nations that want to be conquered by primitives. Seriously?
Carolyne says
I believe mass insanity has over taken Europe and has gained a foothold in the US. As an example consider that new Muslim Rep, I think her name is Omar, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. and the one who called President Trump an obscene name. These are the people chosen to make our laws and lead our country. Freedom of speech will soon be a distant memory.
Walter Sieruk says
One of the main goals of many jihad –minded Muslims is the Islamic conquest of the nations of Europe. One of the methods of achieving Muslin object by not necessary by the means of the violent and deadly “militant” jihad but by the subtle, sly, subversive and insidious way of engaging in that which is known as the stealth jihad. This type of jihad for the advancement and control of Islam in the European countries is to infiltrate into, as in gain, access to, the governmental institutions of the nations of Europe.
This is a large and great part of the grand scheme of stealth jihadist agenda to enhance and gain strong and then stronger influence and then supreme control of Islam over the whole continent of Europe. As on scholar on Islam and the Muslim zeal -filled intentions for Islam had revealed that “Of all the continents of the World, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategists who are seeking world
dominance…” [1] of course ,this author means “world dominance. , Not for those specific Muslim themselves but “world dominance for Islam.” Likewise, another scholar r and expert on this subject wrote exposed that “Since the stealth jihad is more advance in Europe then in the United States, the situation there is more dire….Muslims are accomplishing today what they have tried but failed to do for over a millennium : conquer Europe.” [2] Most intelligent people will well understand that “As Europe goes so will in time, go North America.
Further, about this Muslim scheme of the stealth jihad otherwise called the Muslim method of Islamic Gradualism to enact Sharia law in many different countries of Europe is in contrast to the way of the violent jihad or also called the militant jihad .This non-violent form of the jihad for Islam is a very sly, insidious, subtle and deceptive way of working for the advancement of Islam.
This Muslim scheme for achieving the goal of the Islamic agenda is as, many times, as subtly effective as it is demonically clever. Furthermore, this Islamic gradualism, in some ways, is very similar to the instruction printed in the book entitled THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu. Which reads “At first, then, exhibit the coyness of a maiden, until the enemy gives you an opening; afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare, and it will be too late for the enemy to opposes you”
In addition, those scheming stealth jihadist /Muslims who attempt to have Sharia law set up in the countries of Europe do also engage in the doctrine of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya which is very insidious. Taqyyia is the jihad dogma that deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam. Nevertheless, the God of the Bible “condemns those who devise wicked schemes…” Proverbs 12:11. [N.I.V.] Likewise, Proverbs 12:20 teaches “Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil.”
[1] How Islam Plans to Change the World by Willian Wagner , page 195.
[2] STEALTH JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 270.
gravenimage says
+1
Deborah Donald says
It’s here now in the uk , Muslim mayors Muslim Home Secretary Muslim advisor to the Home Secretary, muslims I’m so many high positions of companies . Just waiting for the icing on the cake our very own Muslim prime minister!! ? I’m so saddened by the pussyfication of my nation , the majority of people below 50 are all for this or blind or both ☹️
gravenimage says
Yes–this is all increasingly alarming.
ASK says
Her videos have been deleted by Youtube on the website provided. 1984
Terry Gain says
A “God” who would choose as his prophet a man who was a murderer of his critics, a mass murderer, a torturer, a slave-taker, a sexual slave-taker, a misogynist, a supremacist, a sex maniac, a fabulist who claimed to ride on a buraq to Heaven and yet didn’t notice that the earth is a sphere is obviously Not God.
It’s not surprising that Islam outlaws free speech. Islam can’t withstand scrutiny.
FYI says
Yeah{sarc} …but apart from those minor quibbles…. he was probably a Vegan and loved non-infidel children
He was also,according to islamic sources, a fat,white,cross-dressing dwarf* who ordered his followers to drink camel urine as a refreshing health tonic…and that is what muslims call the Al Insan Al kamil.
The perfect man
The word perfect seems to mean something else in islam…..
*{Sahih Bukhari 2442,Abu Dawud 40:4731,Sahih Bukhari 8:82:794}
Westman says
Australia of all places; a country settled by many people who had no previous voice and alternative of English prison. Whatever happened to that wondefully outrageous free spirit that made Austrailia great? One would think May’s and Khan’s London Fog had descended like the Borg and enslaved Australia into a cog of the EU machinery.
Westman says
Did I ever misread the country name! Ignore that post while I get my eyes examined.. no wonder it was unbelievable for Australia and absolutely believable for Austria and Germany,
gravenimage says
Don’t feel badly, Westman–you haven’t been the first to make this easy error, and you won’t be the last.
gravenimage says
🙂
Krishna says
Offcourse censoring crisiatiam of Islam is first step for Islamisation
RichardL says
The most perverse part of the whole affair is that any imam says the same thing about muhammad and of course that is okay. Imaginbe if a Buddhist would say that Mary was a virgin when she gave birth and he would be accused of insulting Christianity. Same thing. These judges hate civilisation and want to destroy it.
gravenimage says
True–it only seems to be prohibited citing Muhammed being a pedophile or Islam being all about Jihad if you are critical of these things…
somehistory says
If the Truth cannot be told, then it means hat everyone must lie. To lie is to follow satan the devil, the “father of the lie.”
islam cannot be defeated by giving in to it. satan cannot be defeated…or even “opposed” as the Bible says to do…by saying what he demands to be said.
Those who know the Truth, must speak the Truth…no matter what.
gravenimage says
Questioning Islam and Muhammad has been effectively criminalized in Europe
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This is terrifying–I have been following this case. It is all the worse because Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is not accused of having said anything that is untrue.
If we cannot expose the horrors of Islam–which is more and more true, in Europe and even the rest of the West, then we are truly lost.
Kudos to Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff for not giving up the fight!
Elizabeth Baklaich says
I had the chance to meet her and hear her speak. It is horifying to know her thinking out loud while giving her testimony resulted in the judge adding a charge. My understanding is she was innocent of the initial charge but the new one from the judge for her wondering what to call someone who has sex with a 9 year old, but a paedofile is the problem.
Truth is truth, she did not do anything wrong.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The conservative Austrian government should pass a law fortifying the freedom of expression and MAKE THIS GO AWAY.
Lydia Church says
The constitutions that protect our human rights are only on paper now.
John McMenamin says
https://www.facebook.com/manuel.sanchezhidalgo.370/videos/260720938186527/
John McMenamin says
http://www.hizb-australia.org/…/muslims-in-australia-consi…/
Quote” On a local level, we must reject the new secular version of Islam that is being constructed by Western governments and their lackeys in the Western and Muslim world. This new ‘moderate’ Islam is a perverted version of Islam that localises the Muslim’s concerns, removes the political aspects of Islam such as the Khilafah and its systems of governance, and seeks to redefine Islam along modern secular and liberal interpretations. The ultimate objective, of which, is the construction of a version of Islam that is incapable of challenging Western hegemony in the Muslim world and the wider world. Muslims must reject this perversion and any individual, group or institution that propagates it.”
John McMenamin says
Be Very careful who we Vote For. http://concit.org/australia-under-islam-in-25-years-islam…/… http://www.hizb-australia.org/…/muslims-in-australia…/ Quote” Muslims in Australia – Considerations when Setting an Agenda
Muslims are united by a creed that transcends race, time and geography. It is because of the profoundness of this creed that Muslims, who were born over fourteen hundred years after the Prophet (saw), and live thousands of kilometres from his (saw) birthplace, are still exploring every avenue and expending every effort aimed at ensuring Islam’s unrivalled superiority and application in this world.” QUOTE, ” and expending every effort aimed at ensuring Islam’s unrivalled superiority and application in this world.” UNQUOTE
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “The Court of 1st instance (Regional Court of Vienna) dropped this specific allegation, but convicted her on 15 February 2011 for disparaging religious doctrines under Article 188 of the Austrian Criminal Code.”
ALL religions are, at best, merely opinions presented as facts (in other words, lies).
If and when we can’t legally challenge fraud, it means we are enslaved to government-enforced lies.
And beyond even this, there is absolutely no basis to define or declare islam as a religions at all.
Islam is only the world’s oldest and largest ongoing crime-syndicate, one whose holy-mobster “muslim” gang members #1 alibi to excuse their own criminal desires and actions is to blame a “god.”
Pretending that the global crime-gang called islam is a “race” of poor swarthy animal-people, oppressed by the mentally superior whites, in order to slander everyone who notices it’s a crime-gang as a hatefully bigoted “racist” – is to deliberately enable that crime-gang’s crimes by hiding and destroying the evidence of same, and thus to be a willing accessory to those crimes. Since islam is a murder-gang, and the penalty for committing and enabling the commission of murder is DEATH, anyone and everyone who calls an opponent of muslims, islam, and their global jihad, a “racist!” should be lawfully put to death.
Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime.
Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals.
Right in the Qur’an is: the obligation to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one’s true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).
Are death-threats legal? NO.
Is extortion legal? NO.
Is slavery legal? NO.
Is murder legal? NO.
Is rape legal? NO.
THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL!
Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK!
Everything muslims pretend to see as “holy” is already a crime!
So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!
IN TRYING TO MAKE CRITICISM OF THE GLOBAL CRIME GANG CALLED “ISLAM” INTO A CRIME, TO PROTECT THAT CRIME GANG BY HIDING THE EVIDENCE OF ITS CRIMES, SUCH PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS AND TRAITORS TO RATIONALITY, CIVILIZATION, AND HUMANITY ITSELF.
So charges of treason should be filed against the judges in such cases. The exact violation is Article six, second paragraph, which states “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
Hadn’t you heard?!
Being angry at (“hateful” towards) criminals is now the most vile sin, while pitying (“tolerating”) them all as “fellow victims,” is to be deemed the highest moral virtue, these days!
Having no facts, logic, or reasonable arguments with which to defend their own crimes and treason, criminals must in stead substitute this global attempt to control our very thinking – through an emotional, sub-conscious “narrative” – so much so, that the only advice we hear from “our” hypocrite governments, their pet media, and the corporazi globalist banksters who own them all, seems to invariably be:
“Anyone who doesn’t automatically pity all criminals as fellow victims should be hated!”
Which is why hurting the feelings of criminals by accusing them of their crimes, is now a “hateful” crime itself!