June 28, 2014 Because the fasting month of Ramadan starts today, the ORF tried the enlighten some of its readers, who are not familiar with the Muslim religious tradition. The story tries to show the different ways that Muslims handle the month of Ramadan. For example, the report tells the reader, that because of exceptional rules soccer…
The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has criticized the Austrian national public broadcaster (ORF)’s documentary program, Am Schauplatz and its producers, Ed Moschitz and Julia Kovarik, for their recent coverage of a protest against an Islamic centre in Vienna. The documentary, entitled “The Fear mongers,” follows a pair of right-wing skinheads who participated in…
City council elections in the south-eastern Austrian city of Graz on Sunday failed to result in significant support for a local candidate for the far-right Freedom Party (FP) who had lashed out against Islam in a highly controversial campaign. The top-seeded FP candidate Susanne Winter scored only moderate wins for the party just days after…
Austrian authorities said they arrested a second suspect in an attempted bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. Police said they took a man into custody in the town of Tulln, about 15 miles west of Vienna. Federal police said they were treating the suspect as a possible accomplice of a Bosnian who was arrested…
