Exclusive: Radical Muslims Abuse Western Lawfare Systems to Advance their Jihad Agenda
If Christian and Jewish religious symbols are criticized and satirized, most people do not care. Nobody takes to the street to demonstrate violently against the “culprits.” A long history of enlightenment and freedom of expression has tamed the majority of Christians and Jews. They accept religious freedom as a civilized fact of life.
This, however, does not apply to radical Muslims. They exploit liberal Western lawfare systems and, most recently, blasphemy laws, especially in Europe, to advance their Jihad agenda.
After lawsuits filed by zealous Muslims against Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Rachel Ehrenfeld in the UK, and many other critics of Islam, a new case has arisen in Austria. Susanne Winter, a member of the Austrian FPÖ party and member of parliament was recently sentenced to three months of prison on probation and a fine of €24,000.
Ms. Winter’s “crime” was simply an observation and this must be tolerated in a society that believes in religious and civil freedom. Ms. Winter said, “If the prophet Muhammad were living, he would be indicted as a child abuser,” which is true. Muhammad married Aisha, a nine-year-old girl and consummated this marriage years before she had her first menses. And this is a clear case of child abuse.
The judge, Mr. Schwentner, commented on his sentence with the following words, “It is outrageous to defame a widely established religion.”
The Austrian OE24 TV and other apologetic media outlets welcomed the court ruling and held Ms. Winter responsible for any “reprisals” by Muslim terrorists.
The “Globale islamische Medienfront” (GIME) (global Islamic Media front) in Vienna posted a death threat on its website, saying, “Killing Winter is the right and duty of every Muslim.” The blog Muslimwelt also called for killing the “Witch Winter.” A commentator on the German Deutschlandfunk said, “Islamists demand the head of Winter! No wonder, she insulted them.”
Lots of Austrian politicians and mainstream media rushed to condemn Ms. Winter and ignored the fact that she was simply making use of her right to freedom of opinion, which is guaranteed by the state’s constitution. For apologists in Austria and Germany, Winter is the “culprit.” She provoked death threats. Obviously, such people do not care about the constitution as much as they care about the fanatic “sensitive” feelings of radical Muslims.
Even the president of Austria, Mr. Heinz Fischer condemned Ms. Winter and branded her statement as “unacceptable.”
In other words, Austrian apologists are telling Muslim extremists: you’re right. Winter is wrong.
The growing number of lawsuits against critics of Islam (of tenets and practices) shows very clearly the confrontation between Western principles of religious freedom on the one hand and Jihadists’ tactics to censor and suppress information about radical Islam, on the other.
The aim is very clear: religious freedom must be silenced and critique of radical Islam and Muslims is branded as racism and defamation of an “established religion.”
Blasphemy laws in the UK, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany have added insult to injury and are aiding Jihadists advance their theocratic agenda.
Radical Muslims have discovered in liberal Western lawfare systems a public forum and a legal instrument to position themselves and their radical beliefs as victims of “islamophobia.”
Over the past decade the number of Islamist lawsuits against critics of radical has been on the rise and more often than not successful. The tactic is very clear: silence critics of Islam!
To avoid wasting time, bankruptcy, and running the risk of being murdered by Muslim fanatics, some critics prefer to give in to their accusers, regardless of the merit of their critique.
Some critics of the Saudi wealthy businessman, Khalid Bin Mahfouz, whom they linked to funding Islamic terrorists opted for paying fines outside the court in London. Some of them even paid contributions to his “charity organizations.”
Also, mainstream publishers dare not publish books which might hurt the “sensitive” feelings of radical Muslims. Random House Publishing Group pulled The Jewel of Medina by Sherry Jones for fear of “offending” Muslims and “provoking” violent reprisals.
After 9/11, Western legislators, courts, and the mainstream media have simply become intimidated by radical Muslims. To avoid such an atrocity, and further suicide and car bombs in Western cities, they try to appease radical Muslims with apologetic arguments.
It seems that strict egregious blasphemy laws used in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, Egypt, Somalia, Kuwait, and elsewhere in Muslim states have been copied by Western courts. Even Western heads of state like Obama and ministers like Schäuble, the German Home Minister, relentlessly and hypocritically praise how peaceful Islam is.
In Saudi Arabia, persons who insult Islam are beheaded. In Sudan, a British teacher who named a bear Muhammad was imprisoned. Muslim critics of radical Islam are prosecuted. Think of Nasser Hamed Abu Zeid.
Arab and Muslim thinkers and writers turn to the Internet to criticize radical Islam and jihadists. Check out “Al Hiwar Al Mutameden.”
Instead of fostering such sites, instead of supporting Arab and Muslim critics of radical Islam, the West is allying itself with the oppressors of freedom of religion, and prosecuting Western critics like Ms. Winter, Wilders, and the others.
Still worse: While German authorities, for instance, ban the propaganda of extremist groups on the right side of the political spectrum, they turn a blind eye to the Islamist propaganda which is worse, which incites to hatred and violence.
In Germany, the city council of Cologne approved the construction of one of the largest mosques in Europe, funded largely by Saudi Arabia, which not only bans non-Muslims from having their own temples in Saudi Arabia but also bans them from practicing their religion.
Protesters against this mosque are portrayed as “fascists.”
Ralf Giordano, an ex-Jew, and Mina Ahadi, an ex-Muslim, condemned the council’s decision.
In a conference in Cologne, Giordano stressed that two hundred passages in the Koran incite to hatred and violence against the Jews. “Kill the Jews. Kill them, kill them!” He also said, “The hijab, (headscarf), which Obama wholeheartedly defends, is the first step toward wearing the Niqab (face veil) and later the Burqu’ (the Afghan shador from head to toe). This is Islam!”
“A huge mosque like the one Muslims want to construct in Cologne will be an eye-piercing symbol of violence.” Giordano added.
Mina Ahadi pointed out that kindergarten children of Muslim parents are forced to wear the hijab, “allegedly so that they get used to it. Young children are forced to wear a symbol of violence and oppression. This has nothing to do with religious freedom. This is indoctrination and child abuse.”
Ahadi blasted Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Home Minister for bowing to radical Islamic organizations which allege that they represent Muslims in Germany. “Lots of Muslims fled Islamic oppression in their home countries and here in Germany they are forced to be represented by the same kind of Islam they fled.” Ahadi said.
In addition, Schäuble contradicts himself when he on the one hand says, there are more than 20,000 extremist Muslims roaming Germany and Europe freely, and two thirds of Muslims want Sharia to be introduced in Germany, on the other hand, he claims in a speech at Cairo University (June 17, 2009) that more than 80 percent of all Muslims believe in democracy.
Like Obama, Schäuble seems not to have the slightest clue about Islam. All the scripts of Islam, including the Koran and Hadith, reject the concept of democracy and advocate “shura” (consultation among the powerful).
Obama and Schäuble and their ilk are, in fear of radical Muslims, trying to appease radical Islam and accommodate it in the world as a “peaceful mindset.”
Potter Stewart said, “Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of authoritarian regime.” Obviously, this does not only apply to Muslims states, but also increasingly to some Western states. They are censoring religious freedom in the name of cemetery peace.
Finally, Giordano said in the aforementioned conference, “One can liberalize democracy to death by giving in to a violent religion like Islam.”