The Austrian extreme-Right Freedom Party (FP_) tried to initiate the threat of a creeping Islamization into a Parliament debate. In June, the Freedom Party, joined by the second extreme-Right Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZ_) had already initiated a parliamentary debate about the threat mosques and minarets posed to the ambience of Austrian towns…
According to a survey of the renowned Gallup-Institute 36 percent of the Austrians do not perceive Islam as a dangerous, whereas 57 percent believe that Islam is a threat against occidential values.
The University of Vienna has started to educate Islamic religious teachers through its Master program Islamic Religious Pedagogy (Islamische Religionsp_dagogik). Michael Fleischhacker reports.
They translated and prepared terror videos, claims of responsibility and al-Qaida propaganda on the Internet. Austrian police have now attributed this handiwork to the Global Islamic Media Front and the leader of this network is reportedly among the arrested. Yassin Musharbash reports.
For the first time Austria has named a public place after a Muslim. The entrance to UN-City in Vienna will be named “Muhammad-Asad-Platz in spring. City officials declared that their decision should symbolize that Vienna is multicultural and a city which had always had Muslim life.
