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Vienna: Muslims establish Islamic State fan club

Aug 7, 2014 3:25 pm By Robert Spencer

ViennaISISfanNo doubt the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims in Vienna will immediately denounce this group and explain to them how the Islamic State is “extremist” — won’t they?

“Vienna fan group for Islamic State militants,” The Local, August 6, 2014:

The Islamic State (IS), which is viewed alongside al-Qaeda as one of the most dangerous jihadist groups, has a group of sympathisers in Vienna who have set up a Facebook group and are even selling fan merchandise online.

According to a report in the Kurier newspaper the most popular item for sale is a camouflage cap featuring a jihadist print and the IS icon.

The Facebook group, set up by an individual who calls himself Muslim Alhamdullilah, has 236 friends. He claims to operate from a mosque in Vienna’s Donaustadt but according to the Kurier no such mosque exists.

Images on the Facebook group page show individuals posing with the IS flag and in ‘battle dress’ in Floridsdorf and various other locations in Vienna.

Some of the fans appear to originally come from Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Macedonia. One fan, who identifies himself as a Turkish migrant in Vienna, writes: “I have deleted all the false friends in my life and am happy about that. I want to find, inshallah, some true friends…”

Austria’s State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is powerless to do anything about such groups. It is not forbidden to parade a jihadist flag through Vienna or to sell caps with terrorist symbols on them.

However, membership of a terrorist organisation is prosecutable under Section 278, and if known jihadists return to Austria after fighting in Syria, they will be interrogated.

Islamic State has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq.

Its precise size is unclear but it is thought to include thousands of fighters, including many foreign jihadists.

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  1. Champ ✞ says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    One must be a fan of EVIL to join this fan club …

    “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” — Romans 12:9

    Cling to the cross of Jesus Christ!

    • John Spielman says

      Aug 7, 2014 at 5:07 pm

      Too bad Austria doesn’t collect all the “fan club ” members names and then deport them en mass because they obvious want to live under ISIS

      • Champ says

        Aug 7, 2014 at 8:48 pm

        Good idea, John! …and great point, too.

      • Gail Griffin says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 1:19 am

        Yes, send them to Iraq. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could be chipped first
        Hurricane here.

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    In 1529 and again in 1683 the Muslims tried to take Vienna. Both times a strong faith in God helped the Viennese to repulse the invaders. Today is the enemy to be invited inside the gates with open arms? In what do the Viennese place their faith today? Some links below to some history lessons:

    1529
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfiri-0QUkE

    1683
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekNDrW25MY

    By the way, is there a fan club in Vienna for the Winged Hussars?

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Aug 7, 2014 at 6:05 pm

      How about a nod in recognition of Marco d’Aviano?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 10:22 pm

      You said, ” is there a fan club in Vienna for the Winged Hussars?”

      What a wonderful idea!

    • Maciej says

      Aug 17, 2014 at 10:42 am

      Just to be precise. In 1683 it was the Polish king and Polish army which stopped muslims; not Viennese.

  3. Joe says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    Europeans have to take actions to stop muslim jihadist or else they will grow and cause harm to society.

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    Vienna: Muslims establish Islamic State fan club
    ……………………………….

    CogitoErgoSum mentions the Islamic assaults by the Ottoman Caliphate on Vienna, which our brave ancestors were able to repulse. And this was not just a Mohammedan assault on a great city—Muslims long viewed Vienna as the gateway to the free West.

    There is an important Counter-Jihad site called “Gates of Vienna”.

    What would the West look like now if Vienna had fallen to the Muslim hordes?

    And yet, now we have Muslim “fans” of the sanguinary new Caliphate—they have breached the gates of Vienna.

    We are foolish in ways our forefathers never would have been…

    More:

    Some of the fans appear to originally come from Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Macedonia. One fan, who identifies himself as a Turkish migrant…
    ……………………………….

    In other words, they come from many different places—different cultures, different languages—and yet, these Muslims share an admiration for the new Caliphate, a place where Christians have been violently driven out, women raped, and where the “Mujahideen” have been crucifying and beheading their enemies.

    And it’s not just in Vienna—we’ve heard about “fans” in Indonesia, and Nigeria, and Britain…

    More:

    “I have deleted all the false friends in my life and am happy about that. I want to find, inshallah, some true friends…”
    ……………………………….

    And what will these “true friends” be like? We can guarantee that they will include no “filthy Kuffar”, or even “apostate” (lax) Muslims—but only the kind of Jihadists who admire the horror of a Muslim state that stones women in the street…

    How many more fans of this Shari’ah horror are already in residence in the West?

  5. JeffS says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    “if known jihadists return to Austria after fighting in Syria, they will be interrogated”

    That’ll learn ’em.

  6. NDB says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 8:41 am

    Can’t wait until they protest the city-wide Easter and Christmas celebrations in Vienna. When they deport them, who will be left to work the shops on Mariahilfer Strasse.

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 1:57 pm

    However, membership of a terrorist organisation is prosecutable under Section 278, and if known jihadists return to Austria after fighting in Syria, they will be interrogated.

    Yeah, that’ll show them!!! How about making sure they can’t return instead?

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