260 pupils from Turkey, Morocco and Bosnia are studying at the Islamic Gymnasium in Vienne at the moment. Five prayers per day and controversial discussions about evolutionary theory are part of the curriculum. In the end, the will get a proper Austrian A-Level, the Matura. Emir Numanovic reports.
The lawsuit against a married couple for membership in a terrorist organisation will start in March. Mohamed M. (22) and his wife S. (20) are accused of being involved in the production and spread of a video threat against the “governments of Germany and Austria” in March 2007. In the video message, the military involvement…
The controversy about the extension of the Islam Centre reaches its peak. While the head of the Center launches information days and promotes acceptance, a citizens’ group continues propagating against the planed extension.
Ednan Aslan, religion pedagogue at the University of Vienna, demands more acceptance for Muslims. The state, he says, has also to accept Islam as a partner. Christine Imlinger reports.
Vienna – The provincial parliament in the southern Austrian province Carinthia called on its provincial government to prepare legislation banning the construction of mosques or minarets. The province’s governor, the populist former leader of the rightist Freedom Party, Joerg Haider, had repeatedly called for anti- Muslim measures along those lines.
