Unholy Trans-Atlantic Hateblogger Alliance

I must admit I had never heard of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff until she was invited by Pamela Geller - the doyenne of the American Islamaphobes - to speak at a conference last spring in Washington DC.  Now Sabaditsch-Wolff has been charged in Austria with incitement (Volksverhetzung) and the right-wing blogosphere in Europe is up in arms.  The bloggers are begging for support from their American blogger friends: 

 A Call to Mobilize the American Blogosphere in Support of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

We, the undersigned... have written this post jointly as a public call for our American colleagues to take up the cause of the Austrian feminist and anti-jihad activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.

Geert Wilders is well-known to most American conservative and libertarian bloggers, but Elisabeth’s case is not so prominent. Like Mr. Wilders, she faces trial for reporting factual information about Islam. Her “crime” was to conduct public seminars in which she described Islamic doctrine, quoted from the Koran, and explained to her listeners what she considers the dangers of Islam.

Like Mr. Wilders, Elisabeth has been charged with “hate speech” for her words. Unlike Mr. Wilders, however, Elisabeth is a private citizen, a wife, and the mother of a small child. She lacks the major resources necessary to defend herself against the well-funded organs of the state which seek to persecute her.

Elisabeth’s Voice calls on the American blogosphere to support Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in her fight for the right to speak freely.

One of the "undersigned blogs" is the German hate blog Politically Incorrect. The American bloggers they are appealing too include Geller's blog Atlas Shrugs and Michelle Malkin, whose blog receives over 1 million hits a month - numbers that Politically Correct can only dream of.  Ms. Malkin is known for celebrating the shameful internmant of 200,000 Japanese-Americans during the Second World War and calling for the establishment of detention camps for American Muslims.  If Michelle Malkin answers the call from PI and the other European hatebloggers, we will see the formation of a trans-atlantic Axis of Hate. 

I am certainly against the Austrian incitement laws since they tend to make martyrs of Holocaust-deniers like David Irving and hateful fanatics like Sabaditsch-Wolff.  But since the laws are currently on the books it is worthwhile revisiting the specific charges against Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.  Some reporters attended a "seminar" offered by the Austrian fascist party (FPÖ) where Sabaditsch-Wolff instructed the attendees on the "nature of Islam":

• „Die Moslems lügen uns allen tagtäglich ins Gesicht. Es steht im Koran, dass sie das tun müssen.“
• „Mohammed hatte gerne etwas mit Kindern. Und alle Moslems sollen so leben wie Mohammed. Wenn Kardinäle Kinder vergewaltigen, tun sie das trotz der Religion – Muslime vergewaltigen Kinder wegen der Religion.“
• „Im Koran steht, dass alle, die den Islam ablehnen, getötet werden müssen. Deshalb töten Muslime.“
• „Die Muslime führen einen heimlichen Dschihad. Über Einwanderung und Geburtenrate wollen sie den Islam in Europa verbreiten.“

("Muslims lie to our faces each day. The Koran instructs them to do so. Muslims love to abuse children, just like Mohammed.  Whe cardinals abuse children they do so in violation of their religion, while Muslims rape children because their religion dictates this. The Koran says that anyone who rejects Islam must be killed. That's why Muslims kill. Muslims are conducting a secret Jihad. Through immigration and high birth rates they will spread Islam throughout Europe.")

Clearly the intent of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was to incite hate against a minority group in Austria. While this activity is illegal in Austria, it is protected in the US under the Freedom of Speech principle.  And she will be embraced as a kindred spirit here by Malkin, Geller and the many other hatebloggers in the US.  

Comments

[dz.alexander]

// I am certainly against the Austrian incitement laws since they tend to make martyrs of Holocaust-deniers like David Irving and hateful fanatics like Sabaditsch-Wolff. //

Yeah. European hate-speech laws are themselves dangerous -- "First they came for the Jerks....."
But E S-W sounds simple-minded & I''m guessing she won't get the same support as Wilders.
Wilders is an actual working politician, really the only one the Islam-watchers have so far got.
So he can be called the "most important European alive" [Dan Pipes]
& his comic-opera trial "a defining moment in the history of Western civilization" [Robert Spencer]

[Earl]

I am American and I respect the Islamic faith the same as I accept a Black man the same as I accept Europeans the same as I accept My Brother
-- so don't say that Americans are "Islamaphobes," the fact is that most aren't, most don't care, and to exaggerate like that is silly. Yes some do, but in the third largest country in the world with more than 300,000,000 people, how much of a minority would 1,000,000 be exactly?