Tel-Chai Nation

Ned May's written on Front Page Magazine about how the courts in Austria are continuing to persecute Elisabeth Sabiditsch-Wolff for her condemnation of Muhammed's marriage to Aisha when she was 6 years old. Their alleged excuse: because she was still married to him by the time she was 18! Not only does this pretty much trivialize the fact that he willfully bought her from her more than willing parents when she was a child and "consummated" their marriage when she was 9, it suggests the court sees nothing wrong with selling, buying and having intercourse with a minor to begin with. As May says:

By the time the verdict was handed down, it had become obvious that the court was absolutely determined that Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff must be found guilty of something. The playing of the tapes — which showed that many of the recorded statements that had been used against Elisabeth had in fact been uttered privately — made the prosecution realize that the original charge would never hold up. To attain the desired outcome, the judge added a second charge of her own devising. A juridical move of this sort would have been unimaginable (and illegal) in the United States and many other countries, but it is quite legal in Austria.

The charge on which Elisabeth was eventually convicted was ludicrous on the face of it. Not only did she never say that Muhammad’s actions constituted “pedophilia”, but Muhammad’s actions — which were undisputed by the court — included having sex with a nine-year-old girl. If she had said what she was accused of, it would have been nothing more than the simple truth, and unexceptional from the standpoint of any normal person.

But the folks who run the Austrian system of “justice” are not normal people. They concocted the absurd rationalization that remaining married to the little girl past the age of 18 meant that Muhammad did not exclusively target children with his sexual attentions; hence he was not a “pedophile” by the strict psychiatric definition. Thus Elisabeth was wrong, even though she did not say it, and even though no ordinary citizen would disagree with her if she had said it.

No, the characters running the kangaroo court in Austria are not normal. For all we know, they're practically the kind of people no sensible parent would want anywhere near their children if they knew they were capable of condoning the notion of subjecting them to what Muhammed did to Aisha in the 7th century.

There's a serious need for legal and educational reform needed in Austria just as much as the rest of Europe.

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, islam, misogyny