Tag Archive: rightwing politics

Firearms Freedom Advocate Sentenced to Jail for Claiming Islam ‘At War’ with the West

by Chris Tomlinson Austrian firearm legislation liberalisation campaigner Dr. Georg Zakrajsek has been sentenced to five months in prison for claiming that Islam had declared war on the Western world. The Vienna court ruled Mr. Zakrajsek, secretary general of the pro-gun Society for Liberal Gun Laws in Austria (IWÖ), was guilty of incitement and hate speech. In December 2015, he posted to his website that “the Muslims have declared war on us all”, and added “our traitorous politicians determined to be on their side. They promote and facilitate terrorism. But we will fight,” Kurier reports. Weeks before, the 77-year-old had written a post in… View Article