(Wien) The European Court of Human Rights(EHCR) has stated that an Austrian woman’s conviction
for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn't breach her freedom of
speech.The woman was reported in 2009 after a seminar discussion that
the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to a six-year-old girl was basically
“pedophilia.”
"A 56-year-old and a 6-year-old? What do you call that? Give me an example? What do we call it, if it is not pedophilia?"
Somebody complained and the woman was charged and convicted by a Vienna
court in 2011 of “disparaging religious doctrines.” The woman was ordered to
pay a $547 fine, plus costs she appealed to a higher court which upheld the
2011 ruling. She then took her case to the EHCR.
The ECHR said the Austrian court’s decision “served thelegitimate aim of preserving religious peace.”
