1. Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was born on 1971 and is an Austrian counter-jihad activist, and human rights and free speech advocate.
12 Facts About Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff spent much of her life in Muslim countries, first in Iran until the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff worked for the Austrian embassy in Kuwait at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff moved back to Austria, before again moving to Kuwait, and later went to work in Libya in 2000.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff returned to Austria in 2001 after the September 11 attacks, and had earned a master's degree in diplomatic and strategic studies by 2006.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was approached by the Freedom Party of Austria in 2007 to develop a seminar on Islam, which she taught for two years.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff appealed the conviction to the European Court of Human Rights, which in 2018 ruled her speech to not be covered by freedom of speech, although she had made the assertion based on the Islamic texts describing Muhammad's consummation of his marriage with his 9-year-old wife Aisha when he was 54 years old.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff participated in all of the annual international counter-jihad conferences held from 2007 to 2013, and has been featured extensively on the counter-jihad blog Gates of Vienna under the section "Elisabeth's Voice".
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has received support in conservative circles in the United States, and appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference in a panel organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative in 2010.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was part of a Freedom Party of Austria delegation led by Heinz-Christian Strache that visited Israel the same year, and she spoke in Israel alongside Geert Wilders at the invitation of former MK Eliezer Cohen.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was herself invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State and Trump advisor Kris Kobach in 2017, and spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Denver, Colorado the same year.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has been interviewed regarding her legal case by Jeanine Pirro, and collaborated with Katie Hopkins as part of "Katie and The Wolff".