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.

Morning post brought newsletter from Vienna communist party with protest against demonstrative and exposure of corn-flowers in suit lapels by FPÖ members, pointing out to the fact that corn-flower was symbol popular among national-socialists in 1938. The demonstration of Nazi symbols is forbidden in Austria, so I can justify my public sexual arousal about Strache in military uniform only by anti-fascist objections of my designer activity. But if Mr. Strache could have something against this picture, I would delete it.

KPÖ (Wien) – Im Jahr 2006 erschienen die gewählten Abgeordneten der FPÖ zur ersten Sitzung des Nationalrates mit einer Kornblume am Revers. Die Kornblume war in Österreich im 19. Jahrhundert Markenzeichen der so genannten “alldeutschen Bewegung” von Georg Ritter von Schönerer. Nach dem Verbot der NSDAP durch Dollfuss im Jahre 1933 wurde sie das Symbol der illegalen Nazis vor dem “Anschluss” an Deutschland im Jahre 1938. (more…)

Heinz-Christian Strache, who by education is a dental technician, has been active in local politics in Vienna since 1991.
Snapshots taken from a video in the late 80s were published in January 2007 showing a uniformed Strache participating in paramilitary training activities. Other people on the pictures were claimed to be known neo-nazis. Strache has denied that, claiming the pictures are of him playing Gotcha.
At the end of January, further pictures were published, showing Strache performing a Nazi salute (the Kühnen salute). Strache denied the allegations prior to publication of the pictures. After publication, Strache argued that the picture showed him ordering three beers and was not a Nazi salute.

Occasional walks in green area of Schmelz proved to be useful, because there I observed sheets of papers fixed to the lampposts. It was announcement of upcoming meeting with FPÖ leader H.Strache, and no additional info was available on Internet.
Around nine o’clock today Strache appeared in the gateway of Schutzhaus restaurant.
The private gathering, presented mostly by retired persons greeted him admirably.

Strache is extremely good-looking blue-eyed man with trim figure.
Once when I photographed him in Graz two years ago, something in his posture reminded me of Mussolini, how Duce was depicted by old film chronics.
Perhaps, sex with such a person could be enjoyable performance.
I heard Strache promised he would occupy Vienna mayor post after new elections in 2010.
I wanted to understand what makes Strache rather popular among Austrians.
May be popularity is something one can not control, but only constant years-long work gives chance to this miracle to happen.
As anybody else collecting political information, I come across constant reports about activities of Strache. One can sense his vibes.
What can be hardly said about others.
For example, when I lived in Graz I had impression that all Austria was dark red. Red as tomato.
Nowadays I hear nothing of persons who shared their incomes with poor to get chairs and corresponding salaries in Landtag.

The daily newspaper ÖSTERREICH published in its Sunday edition the results of recent survey on upcoming elections.

Survey predicts that for the first time seven parties of the country would enter the parliament. ÖVP gained 29% of voices, SPÖ – 25%. At the third place was the FPÖ with 15% of voters, being ahead of the Greens by one per cent. The BZÖ got 7%, Dinkhauser – 6%, and Liberal Forum – 4%.

In the election campaign barometer of ÖSTEREICH social democrat Werner Faymann is the leader. 38% of the Austrian voters have favorable impression of him. Alexander Van der Bellen of the Greens gains sympathies of 31% of voters and he is two points ahead of H.C. Strache from the FPÖ. ÖVP leader Wilhelm Molterer and Fritz Dinkhauser gained only 21% of supporters. Translated from OTS News by Galina Toktalieva

Haider was a long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). When he stepped down as party’s chairman in 2000, he remained its major figure until 2005. In April 2005 he founded a new party, the “Alliance for the Future of Austria” (BZÖ-Bündnis Zukunft Österreich)

Joerg Haider was born in 1950 in Bad Goisern, Upper Austria. His father Robert Haider worked as a shoemaker, his mother Dorothea Rupp was a teacher.

Both parents were active members of the Nazi Party. Robert Haider joined the ‘Hitler Jugend’ when he was fifteen. In 1933, after Nazi organisations were banned in Austria, he participated in several illegal actions. In 1934 he took part in the failed nazi putsch and was forced to flee to Bavaria, where he joined the nazi party. (more…)

Migration statistics Austria
International migration balance to and from Austria by citizenship 2000-2007
2000/Total 17 272 (Austrian citizens: -4 315; Foreign citizens:+21587)
2007/Total 32 714 (Austrian citizens: -5 509; Foreign citizens: +38 223);
38 223 foreign citizens migrated from abroad and settled in Austria in 2007,
and 20 464 Austrians left the country (it is minus 5 500 in total)
Statistics Austria. Compiled on 16 May 2008