Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and Geert Wilders (photo from DianaWest.net)
The Gates of Vienna site, which is following the upcoming criminal trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Woff in Austria for insulting Islam, has issued an appeal to Counter-Jihad bloggers ‘round the world to join Elisabeth’s Voice.
For bloggers who wish to have their web-sites added to the list of supporters, here is the e-mail address:
www.gatesofvienna@chromatism.net
Here’s the link for those who wish to contribute to Elisabeth’s Defense fund:
http://english.savefreespeech.org/
You can find some background on the prosecution here and here. From the Gates here is a part of the story:
“…Geert Wilders is well-known to most American conservative and libertarian bloggers, but Elisabeth’s case is not so prominent. Like Mr. Wilders, she faces trial for reporting factual information about Islam. Her “crime” was to conduct public seminars in which she described Islamic doctrine, quoted from the Koran, and explained to her listeners what she considers the dangers of Islam…”
The insanity continues. It is a crime in Europe to quote directly from the Koran and comment on the contents of the book. How long will it be until we get these kinds of prosecutions here in The United States?
“…Like Mr. Wilders, Elisabeth has been charged with “hate speech” for her words. Unlike Mr. Wilders, however, Elisabeth is a private citizen, a wife, and the mother of a small child. She lacks the major resources necessary to defend herself against the well-funded organs of the state which seek to persecute her…”
Well, now. It really doesn’t matter to the Forces of Islam who you are in Europe – if you dare challenge the written or spoken doctrines, you are marked for death by the Muslim World, or for prison by your government. Geert Wilders, an elected member of the Dutch Parliament, has been in hiding for about five years now. He can’t even go to his own home because of death threats.
All of which brings back to mind that President Obama recently charged NASA with its new mission – reaching out to the Muslim world to make them feel good about the contributions of Islam to – something.
The mid-term election is in eight more days. We’ll see if the American people have begun to catch on en-masse, or if we’re going to keep heading down the path.
About John L. Work
John Lloyd Work has taken the detective thriller genre and woven an occasional political thread throughout his books, morphing what was once considered an arena reserved for pure fiction into believable, terrifying, futuristic, true-to-life “faction”.
He traveled the uniformed patrolman’s path, answering brutal domestic violence calls, high speed chases, homicides, suicides, armed robberies, breaking up bar fights, and the accompanying sporadic unpredictable moments of terror - which eventually come to all police officers, sometimes when least expected. He gradually absorbed the hard fact that the greatest danger a cop faces comes in the form of day-to-day encounters with emotionally disturbed, highly intoxicated people. Those experiences can wear a cop down, grinding on his own emotions and psyche. Prolonged exposure to the worst of people and people at their worst can soon make him believe that the world is a sewer. That police officer’s reality is a common thread throughout Work’s crime fiction books.
Following his graduation from high school, Work studied music and became a professional performer, conductor and teacher. Life made a sudden, unexpected turn when, one afternoon in 1976, his cousin, who eventually became the Chief of the Ontario, California, Police Department, talked him into riding along during a patrol shift. The musician was hooked into becoming a police officer.
After working for two years as a reserve officer in Southern California and in Boulder, Colorado, he joined the Longmont, Colorado Police Department. Work served there for seven years, investigating crimes as a patrolman, detective and patrol sergeant. In 1989 he joined the Adams County, Colorado Sheriff’s Office, where he soon learned that locking a criminal up inside a jail or prison does not put him out of business. As a sheriff’s detective he investigated hundreds of crimes, including eleven contract murder conspiracies which originated “inside the walls”.
While serving on the Adams County North Metro Gang Task Force and as a member of the Colorado Security Threat Intelligence Network Group (STING), Work designed a seminar on how a criminal’s mind formulates his victim selection strategy. Over a period of six years he taught that class in sheriff’s academies and colleges throughout Colorado. He saw the world of crime both inside the walls and out on the streets.
His final experiences in the criminal law field were with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, where for nearly two years he investigated felonies from the defense side of the Courtroom.
Twenty-two years of observing human nature at its worst, combined with watching some profound changes in America’s culture and political institutions, provided plenty of material for his first three books. A self-published author, he just finished writing his tenth thriller.
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