[ April 16, 2024 ]
Apparently, in Austria, it’s A-OK to post anti-Semitic calls for killing Jews on one’s own Facebook page — it’s deemed an expression of legal criticism against Israel.
That’s the determination of a prosecutor’s office, anyway.
The case involved a hair stylist who said he could’ve killed all the Jews in the world, but didn’t.
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The Jerusalem Post has more:
“I could have annihilated all the Jews in the world, but I left some of them alive so you will know why I was killing them…,” Ibrahim B. wrote on his Facebook page in December.
brahim, the 29-year-old owner of a hair salon in the city of Wels near Linz, attributed the quote to Hitler and posted a picture of the German dictator on his Facebook site. Ibrahim launched his pro-Nazi tirade in the context of criticizing Israel’s Operation Protective Edge war against Hamas last summer.
Christl on Tuesday described Ibrahim’s statements as merely expressing “displeasure toward Israel,” and not a glorification of Hitler, according to the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten paper.
Ibrahim, whose last name was not disclosed in the Austrian press, also called on Allah to annihilate the Jewish state, the newspaper wrote. The Austrian media said the quote attributed to Hitler was not an actual statement from the Nazi leader.
A Facebook user noticed Ibrahim’s postings and notified the police. The authorities opened an investigation into a violation of a law that outlaws the glorification of the National Socialists.
Stefan Schaden, a member of the advisory board of the Austria-Israel Society, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, “This position [of the prosecutor] is, unfortunately, becoming more popular. Everything passes as so-called criticism of Israel. Anti-Semitism seems to have been officially abolished. In view of the climate in Europe, it is a dramatic development.”
The Austrian-Israel Society protested the prosecutor’s decision on Wednesday, saying it “legitimizes anti-Semitic agitation through Austria’s judiciary.”
“It is troubling when the most disgusting agitation against Jews, as well as against the State of Israel, takes place without consequences,” the president of the Austria-Israel Society, Richard Schmitz, said. He called on Austrian politicians and authorities to do more to stop the playing down of anti-Semitism.
Samuel Laster, the editor-inchief of the Vienna-based news website Die Juedische, told the Post the prosecutor’s decision is ”shocking,” adding that he has observed demonstrations against Israel using such slogans as “Zionists are fascists” and comparing the swastika with the Star of David. ”Police did not see any reason to intervene,” he said.
The uproar over the decision to dismiss the criminal complaint against Ibrahim appears to have prompted a senior prosecutor to reevaluate the case, Der Standard reported on Wednesday.
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35 Comments
6 years ago
What is expected from the austrians? They are a classless tribe of peasants to begin with.
6 years ago
Reply to
Ron Cole
That should have been enough to cause the austrians to feel some shame.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
no, they feel no shame, the Austrians masterfully played the victim after WW2, even if some of the very worst nazis were Austrians…they (almost) succeeded to convince the world that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian…The famous aria in “Die Fledermaus”
(The Bat) by Johann Strauss: “Glücklich ist, der vergißt…” (it is bliss to forget…) should be Austria’s national anthem!
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
What has that to do with the price of fish? Don’t put Mozart’s name on the same page as the filthy scum we are discussing here.
6 years ago
Ibrahim is probably a gay by relative buggery, pun intended
6 years ago
Wow antisemitism being promulgated in Austria, it’s like everything old is new again, because islamic antisemtism is very old, even relative to the antisemitism that became stylish in Austria in the mid-20th century.
6 years ago
What would the Austrian prosecutor say to a Facebook message urging to kill Muslims and annihilate Muslim states?
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
Agree. Then the loons will arrest , prosecute for islamohobia !
Here’s some great news from fast turning Jihadi hellhole Australia . Judge bans Muslima from court for wearing the Burkha and Left/Liberal pro-jihadis howl in protest http://bit.ly/2nRdtgd
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
I was about to make the same statement. It could be expanded to stating that because you want to overthrow the government, that must be “legal” as well, right?
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
“Austrian/Polish” prosecutors??? Do they have them ? These 2 countries are/ were WORSE than the Germans. The German people in the twenties/thirties were not anti-Semitic until U no who came along – and he needed someone to ‘blame’ for the loss of WW1
6 years ago
Reply to
VictorMC
some of the worst nazis during WW2 were Austrians, not only Hitler was Austrian born, Seyss-Inquart, Kaltenbrunner, Schwammberger, Stangl and many others too…
6 years ago
Reply to
Ego
There is always this double standard in Western society, Muslims “deserve” more sympathy than Jews.
6 years ago
Most people think that Hitler was a German, but he was Austrian and spoke German with a Austrian accent.Because Austria and Germany now have laws against spreading of Nazi hate,Germany and Austria have had to import it from muslim countries. Remember that Turkey supported Germany in WW 1 and during WW2 , the Mufti Hussein visited Hitler in Berlin to give advice on the elimination of the Jews, and there was at least one Muslim division in the SS.
6 years ago
Reply to
misterright5
And many nazi war criminals fled to Muslim countries and some converted to Islam. Even today, many nazis have cozy relations with Muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
misterright5
Many Muslim governments were also pro-Nazi, such as Iraq’s regime during the war.
6 years ago
Oh really? How ’bout a Christian page calling for the killing of Moslems?? Or a conservative page calling for the killing of all lawyers?
6 years ago
Back to the future.
6 years ago
But if it’s turned around, you end up in jail.
6 years ago
Austria’s biggest accomplishment after WW2? to make the world believe that
Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian.
Ach…”glücklich ist, der vergißt…” (Forgetting is bliss…)
D
6 years ago
If we didn’t have Israel they wud still be calling for our extermination…it wud just be easier…& no one wud give a damn…that is the only reason Israel even came into existence…We did so much for EUrope & that was our reward… What has islum contributed to the world….Wud anyone want to live in any of the 56 UN OIC countries…Eventually they will turn the whole world into their sewer….
6 years ago
Reply to
garry pollack
Have you ever noticed in life that the people that you do things for are very likely to thank you by kicking you in the teeth and more you do the bigger the kick! Very, very common. They seem to resent/hate the fact that you can do for them things that they can’t do for themselves.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Cai
better men than me have…Mark Twain: ‘If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.’
6 years ago
austrians threw flowers at the nazis and every one of them was a member of the nazi party. they are low scum and virulent anti semites. it is nauseating to think of being a Jew and living in that filthy place.
6 years ago
On the same note it would be possible to say in Austria to kill all palestinians in the sense of an expression of legal criticism of palestinians.
6 years ago
I guess the place where Hitler was born and raised, is at it again.
6 years ago
How horrific. Western Europe has chosen its side when presented with a choice between Muslims and Jews, so be it.
6 years ago
W-T-F?!
Europeans have truly lost their minds!
