|
A human rights court upheld an Austrian woman's conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad.
[The Atlantic] A few years ago, I appeared on a live Egyptian television show hosted by a conservative Muslim with jihadist sympathies. He lured me on by offering to answer any question I had about Islam, including, he said, "whether the Prophet Muhammad was a child molester." The host seemed awfully open-minded, I thought, given how humorless jihadists tend to be about their Prophet. When the lights went up and the program began, I mentioned the child-molester issue, and the host remained true to his word, neither bursting into a rage nor chiding me for my impertinence. (I wrote about the experience for the November 2012 issue of the magazine.)Around the same time, a woman referred to as E.S. was convicted in Austria for, in effect, not phrasing her identical curiosity in the form of a question. On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld her 2011 conviction for "disparagement of religious precepts," a crime in Austria. The facts of what E.S. did are not in dispute. She held "seminars" in which she presented her view that Muhammad was indeed a child molester. Dominant Islamic traditions hold that Muhammad’s third wife Aisha was six at their marriage and nine at its consummation. Muhammad was in his early fifties. The Austrian woman repeated these claims, and the Austrian court ruled that she had to pay 480 Euro or spend 60 days in the slammer. The ECHR ruled that Austria had not violated her rights. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-28 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=526391 |