The National Council is the lower house of the Austrian parliament. The third president of the National Council is the head of the nation’s third-largest party. If Norbert Hofer had said that the Bible was more dangerous than coronavirus, he would be hailed as courageous and heroic by the very people who want to prosecute him now.
“Public prosecutor for Hofer’s indictment for criticism of Islam,” translated from “Staatsanwaltschaft für Hofers Auslieferung wegen Islam-Kritik,” Unser Tirol 24, September 28, 2020 (thanks to Medforth):
The investigative authorities are concerned over the statements of the Third National Council President and FPÖ boss Norbert Hofer about the Koran. The Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office has made a request to the National Council to consent to official prosecution, the APA learned from the House. It has not yet been determined when the Immunity Committee will decide on lifting parliamentary immunity….
In June, at a demonstration by the Freedom Party at Viktor-Adler-Markt, Hofer said that the Muslim Holy Book was more dangerous than the corona virus: “I am not afraid of Corona, Corona is not dangerous. The Koran is more dangerous, my friends, than Corona.”