Yodeling-ist-Verboten

Yodeling ist Verboten in Muslim-Controlled Austria

Handbook for Infidels

The Candid Progressive's Guide

to Islam & its War on the West

On a beautiful summer day in 2010, Helmut Griese, a 63-year-old retiree, was mowing his lawn in Graz, Austria. As his mood took a turn towards the blissful, Mr. Griese erupted into some impromptu yodeling, as Austrians are wont to do. An Austrian man, in Austria, doing a bit of yodeling on his own property on a fine, sunny day. What could be wrong with that, right?

Here's what could be wrong with that -- Herr Griese's neighbors included a family who subscribes to the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. And these hyper-sensitive Muslims happened to be holding a prayer service in their home at the time the singing offensive was launched. So, naturally, they jumped to the conclusion that Mr. G. was mocking their religion. As everyone knows by now, Muslims are the center of the entire fucking universe, so Helmut must have had them in mind when he burst forth into song. The aggrieved neighbors called the police, and the singer was charged with the offences of "disparagement of religious symbols" and "hindering religious practice".

The Kronen Zeitung newspaper reports that in November 2010, judges in Graz fined Mr. Griese 800 Euros after deciding that he may have been trying to offend his neighbors and ridicule their religion. According to The Muslims Next Door, he was mocking and imitating the call of the Muezzin -- the bearded guy who calls the faithful to prayer from the minarets sprouting up across Western Europe. Mr. Griese paid the fine, in order to avoid further legal hassles and expenses.

According to one (unverified, web-based) source, this Muslim family was broadcasting their prayers into the neighborhood via a loudspeaker. But that's okay, apparently. As far as I know, none of their infidel neighbors has made a legal case out of this, even though that sort of invasive religious prosyletizing is far more noxious than a happy man yodeling as he goes about his yard work.

Muslims comprise only 5% of the population in Austria. But they seem to hold a monopoly on audacity in that country, as they do in many other parts of the world. Only Muslims would have the brass balls to make a legal stink over a man yodeling on his own property. Only they would even think of claiming victim status over a non-event such as this. Once again, a tiny minority of True Believers is able to call the shots in their adoptive Western nation, because the Austrian government is controlled by a bunch of politically-correct multicultural pussies -- men and women who will sacrifice their nation's democratic ideals at the first sign of Muslim ire.

As savvy stealth jihadists know, you don't have to resort to suicide bombings if the infidels will cave in to your every whim and whine. And, in the self-doubting, PC societies of Western Europe, an indignant scowl or a childish pout are all the weaponry an Islamist really needs to get his or her way. In that sort of environment, strapping on a load of C4 and blowing yourself to Kingdom Come begins to look like overkill. (Unless, of course, you're just getting nowhere with the ladies, and the promise of those seventy-two heavenly virgins looks like the only way you're ever going to get laid. That is to say, unless you're a gullible, pathetic loser.)

Perhaps Austrians are super-sensitive regarding issues of "racism" and "bigotry" because of the enthusiasm with which most of their people embraced the Nazis when Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. But surrendering to thuggish Islamo-fascists in the 21st Century is not the answer. Supporting democratic principles is the best way to assuage any lingering feelings of guilt -- the best way for Austrians (and Germans) to prove that they are now enlightened citizens of the world in good standing.

A lonley goatherd innocently serenading his furry friend -- or a vile rascist mocklng his sensitive Muslim neighbors? If Austrian judges decide the issue, this kid might have to cough up some Euros.