Austria

Eighty-four per cent of Austrians support closing Europe’s external borders. source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/09/poll-majority-austrians-fear-migrant-crisis-support-strong-anti-migrant-action/

Pro-Palestinian protesters rushed the pitch during a football match between French club Lille and Israeli club Maccabi Haifa in Bischofshofen, Austria last night, assaulting several players. source: http://www.newsweek.com/israeli-footballers-assaulted-pro-palestinian-protesters-during-match-261031

Amid growing concern across Europe about the threat of spreading jihadism, Austria’s coalition government on Thursday unveiled far-reaching legislation which aims to stamp out foreign influence on and funding for Austria’s Muslims, and also envisages a standardized German-language version of the Qur’an. A major consequence of the law, which is due to come into effect from January, would be the rescinding of permits for scores of Turkish imams, or religious teachers, paid for by the Turkish government... Foreign funding of operating costs for mosques, schools and other Islamic facilities will be prohibited. As in many other European countries, Austrian officials are concerned about foreign imams who speak little of the local language, are not well-integrated into local society, and who may be spreading radical views. Imams working in Austria will be expected to have Austrian theological training so as to better connect with the local community. Religious organizations will be required to show a unified German-language version of their doctrine and religious texts, including the Qur’an... The bill was drafted in consultation with two recognized Islamic bodies, the mainstream Islamic Religious Community in Austria and a body representing Alevis, a Muslim sect sometimes viewed as heretical by Sunnis, originating in Turkey. The Vienna daily Wiener Zeitung noted in an editorial that some of proposed new regulations, such as the ban on foreign funding, were not applicable to other religions. “But as long as murderers refer to Islam at the beheading of helpless hostages, Islam is just not a religion like any other,” it said. “Every law is a child of its time.” In response to the rise of ISIS, the Austrian government last month announced a ban on ISIS symbols, plans to revoke the citizenship of any dual citizens who join the jihad, and new rules making it harder for minors to travel outside the European Union. Earlier this year Austrian media reported on cases of teenage girls of Bosnian origin who traveled to Syria to “marry” jihadists and then join the fight, after being radicalized by an imam at a Vienna mosque. source: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/austria-aims-stop-funding-islam-promote-standardized-version-qur

A new survey carried out in December and published on Saturday by Der Standard newspaper shows that more than half (51 percent) of the respondents say that Islam is a threat to Austrian society. source: http://www.thelocal.at/20150110/half-of-austrians-believe-islam-a-threat

A new survey on how Islam is viewed in Austria suggests that anti-Muslim sentiment has risen sharply in the wake of the Paris shootings, with 69 percent of those polled saying they did not believe that Islam belongs in Austria. The survey, carried out by Unique Research for the Heute tabloid paper, polled 500 people. source: http://www.thelocal.at/20150209/poll-islam-does-not-belong-in-austria

"Whoever boards a boat and tries to enter Europe illegally has ruined his chances of gaining asylum in Europe and will be sent back," (Austrian) Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz told Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag. Kurz, a member of the conservative OVP party, said Australia had shown it was possible to rescue migrants at sea without automatically letting them into the country. "There is a country we can learn from. Australia had a similar problem. But the country managed to decide itself who is allowed to come, and didn't leave this decision to people-smugglers," the 29-year-old minister told the newspaper. Australia is frequently criticised by human rights campaigners for detaining migrants intercepted at sea in camps in Papua New Guinea and Nauru as well as its attempts to resettle refugees in poorer countries such as Cambodia. source: news.trust.org/item/20160605103051-jmrh0/

A middle school teacher in the Austrian city of Bregenz is facing criminal charges for calling Islam’s Muhammad a “child molester.” source: http://constitution.com/austrian-teacher-prosecuted-calling-mohammed-child-molester/

An editor of Austria’s largest paper, Kronen Zeitung, is to be tried for hate speech over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year... Calling the majority of the migrants “testosterone-driven Syrians”, Mr. Biro recounted the multiple reports of migrants carrying out, in his words, “extremely aggressive sexual assaults”. He also detailed Afghan men had slashed the seats of the trains that were transporting them to Germany because they refused to sit where Christians had previously sat... Many private individuals in Germany and Austria have been successfully prosecuted for anti-migrant, or even migrant-critical rhetoric... Even politicians are not immune from hate speech investigations. source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/25/editor-of-austrias-largest-paper-charged-with-hate-speech-over-migrant-article/

Austria’s interior ministry says that of the 287 Islamic radicals identified in the country in the past few years, 40 percent arrived as migrants looking for asylum. source: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/15/austria-40-per-cent-islamic-radicals-recently-arrived-refugees/

Christian woman was stabbed by an asylum seeker after he heard her reading from the bible. The 50-year-old woman was only saved by her winter coat when she was attacked with a knife in the accommodation in Timelkam in Voecklamarkt in Upper Austria. Her alleged attacker is a 22-year-old man from Afghanistan who had taken offence to the fact that the woman had been invited by Christian residents of the property to discuss the bible. When he found out what she was doing, he stormed into the kitchen where the woman was standing and tried to plunge the knife into her upper body. Luckily her thick winter coat protected her from serious injury, but she did injure her ear when she fell backwards from the force of the man's violent blows. source: www.express.co.uk/news/world/748477/

Austrian firearm legislation liberalization campaigner Dr. Georg Zakrajsek has been sentenced to five months in prison for claiming that Islam had declared war on the Western world. source:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/25/firearms-freedom-advocate-sentenced-claiming-islam-war-west/