Susanne Winter and Islam
Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted Thursday of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam’s prophet Mohammad was a pedophile. A court in Winter’s home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros euros and a suspended prison term of three months, Austrian news agency APA reported. The politician, who took a seat in parliament last fall for the Freedom Party (FPOe), made the anti-Islamic remarks in January 2008.
About animal brothels in Graz
She also proposed in a discussion with students that Muslim men should commit bestiality rather than making “indecent advances” on girls.
When somebody may ask my own opinion about Susanne Winter case and weather I see here insult of Muslim religious feelings, I would of course support indignant outburst of conventional wisdom saying politician should really care what she is speaking about, because any chauvinistic escapades, even if they meant only to attract more attention of electorate to FPÖ, turn out to be very expensive nowadays.
Candidness of Susanne Winter
From the other side, I see Susanne Winter not as aggressor, but victim of Austrian conventionalism, who dared to pronounce publicly what other Austrians often say to one another in privacy of their home kitchens. Being born and raised up in Islamic country, and thus knowing something about realities of Islamic world, I withdraw now from further comments and only recite words of renowned author and prominent political figure defending rights of Muslim women Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
“For centuries we had been behaving as though all knowledge was in the Quran, refusing to question anything, refusing to progress. By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.”
Galina Toktalieva: The rebellious and extravagant thoughts about Islam and prophet Muhammad, which Susanne Winter announced publicly as her own to attract more attention of electorat to herself and her ultra-right party, were originated by Somalia female Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her book “Infifel” (seen in all bookstores in Austria two-three years ago) who was brought up in Islam, emigrated to Holland, became politician and then after coming through ordeal of life threats from Muslims and faked Holland citizenship, emigrated to the USA.
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