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A French woman who protested a temporary tent-abattoir set up in a car-park near a hospital to ritually slaughter animals for Eid has had her conviction overturned, after she appealed a €4,500 fine and three month jail sentence for calling Islam a "cesspit".
Retired school-teacher Christine Tasin, 58, was convicted under an 1881 law after the prosecution argued criticism of Islam was the equivalent of inciting violence against Muslims, and that in addition to the normal punishment of a fine and imprisonment, Tasin should also be stripped of the right to hold public office.
Her subsequent appeal was supported by Dr. Daniel Pipes' American-based Legal Project, an advisory and funding body established to "protect the right in the West to freely discuss Islam, radical Islam, terrorism, and terrorist funding", who have also backed Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders after his prosecution for criticising Islam.