Recruiting for the Islamic State was going on in mosques? One might almost get the idea that the Islamic State had something to do with Islam. But of course, that would be “Islamophobic.”
“Austrian police arrested 13 men targeting suspected jihad recruiters,” AFP, November 28, 2014:
VIENNA (AFP) – Austrian police arrested 13 people and raided homes, prayer rooms and mosques around the country early Friday in a mass operation targeting suspected jihad recruiters, prosecutors said.
The operation in Vienna and the cities of Graz and Linz was reportedly one of the biggest ever for the country, involving some 900 police officers.
It followed a two-year investigation into several people suspected of recruiting young people to fight in Syria, the prosecutors said.
Media reports said a Vienna-based Serbian preacher, who was the main suspect, was among those arrested in the raids which began at 4:00am (0300GMT).
Police also seized “terrorist propaganda,” computer files and money in various homes, said prosecutors in Graz, who were coordinating the operation.
Beyond recruiting fighters, the daily Kronen Zeitung said that the suspects were under investigation for helping to finance the Islamic State group.
The operation “confirms our clear message to all jihadists in Austria: you are not safe here,” Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said, praising the dawn operation.
A press conference was scheduled for later Friday.
Austria, a majority Catholic country, has seen dozens of its citizens join the jihadist cause in Syria or Iraq, sparking concerns on the national security threat posed by those who returning from the war-ravaged countries.
Some 150 people have so far travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside jihadists, or have been stopped while trying to do so, according to the interior ministry.
The case of two Austrian teenage girls who left for Syria in April, telling their parents that they wanted to “fight for Islam” there, especially grabbed headlines here.
According to the interior ministry, most of the recruits have an immigrant background from the former Yugoslavia or Chechnya.
About 60 are believed to have returned home from Syria or Iraq, and 30 killed in the fighting.
The government has proposed a package of measures aimed at preventing its citizens from joining the jihad cause.
They include stringent controls of minors travelling abroad, and a ban on symbols linked to the IS group, Al Qaeda and other similar organisations. Citizens with dual nationalities who have fought for a terror group abroad would also have their Austrian citizenship revoked….
Salah says
“The operation “confirms our clear message to all jihadists in Austria: you are not safe here,” ”
Am I dreaming or is the E.U. finally waking up? looks like a “Europe Spring” to me!
That’s what ALL European countries need to do, and they need to do it NOW.
mortimer says
Salah, the Austrians are not all crazy. The Czech president recently said, ‘We don’t need any Muslim immigrants in the Czech Republic.’ You maybe right that a change is occurring.
Michael Copeland says
Yes, Europe must wake.
The Future of Terrorism…2005 Interview in Der Spiegel with Al Qaeda commander
An Islamic Caliphate in 7 Easy Steps
5th Phase – 2013-2016 – declaration of the Caliphate
6th Phase – 2016 onwards – “total confrontation”
7th Phase – “Definitive Victory”
Clare Lopez presentation to Q Society, at 10.29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVD-aOvo-iU
Not long now till “Total Confrontation”
salamander says
Salah, a European spring ? lets hope so eh? regardless of what our politicians are saying people are sick to the back-teeth with the bullshit they are giving us. U=Kip have them a bit worried at the moment, I however would prefer someone like Charles Martell banging the war drum
mortimer says
“Terrorist propaganda”? Found in a mosque? Were the mosque leaders ‘shocked’? Did they say, “Islam is peace!” ???
And what a surprise it is that ‘moderate’ Muslims from Bosnia misunderstand jihad so much they think it means murdering Shi’ites in Syria, rather than working out at the gym.
Tommy Guns says
My personal jihad for the day was combing my hair. I had this piece of hair that kept standing up in back. I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this but, I used a bit of my girl friends hair spray.
Don’t laugh, I’m sure there were others with a personal jihad today!!!
Charlie Griffith says
More appropriate would’ve been a swipe with a razor.
mortimer says
The ISIS videos of relief aid workers being murdered got peoples’ attention.
abad says
Why did western Europe allow Muslim immigrants into their nations anyways? Can someone kindly answer my question? Thanks, and that Czech president is doing the right thing by not allowing Muslims into the Czech Republic.
AM says
Europeans have been brainwashed with cultural Marxism so now their brains are functioning properly (they seem to have completely forgotten the history of war against Islam and they think that everybody (including Muslims) in the world is now as “enlightened” as them in terms of their warm fuzzy new age feeling towards humankind.
The other point is that EU leaders claim they need immigrants because their birth rates are dropping and their populations are declining and they need young immigrants to prop up their welfare systems…….stupidly they are now doing this by replacing their indigenous populations with Muslims. is this genocide? Sounds more like suicide…..
AM says
Correction: their brains ARE NOT functioning properly…..
Jack says
You are right. The governments of the western countries need to stop the further immigration of Muslims. Instead of paying huge sums of social benefits to them, they need to invest via tax breaks for our own so we can afford to have more children. We have been tax to the 9’s to settle in immigrants that have the intentions to undermine our culture and replace it with theirs, (Islam). Great way to spend hard earned tax dollars.
We also need to re-examine the importance of having mothers home to raise their children. Over the past 30-40 years we have lost sight of this and have raise two generations of key latch kids. I do not say this to undermine women in the work place but to stress the importance of women, with all the respect they deserve, that they are desperately needed in the home. The family unit has been seriously under minded with three decades of propaganda pushing women out the door of their homes while the state with there agenda has been indoctrinating our kids with their idea of what they should be doing which comes down to increases tax revenues. It always gets back to the money and how our government will do whatever it needs to to keep feeding at the trough, even if it means cultural suicide.
Even marriage has become a joke. Jump in jump out. Morals and values has been undermined to the point where everything is OK, no matter how destructive to ourselves. We are free to do whatever, no matter at what cost and to whom. I firmly believe this is by design. When a nation loses its morals and values it has lost its back bone. With no back bone it can no longer stand for itself. It becomes weak, diseased, and eventually rots into the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah which is where we are now. We should be cleaning up our own back yard instead of telling the rest of the world how to live, myself included by the way. After 57 years of living without t he virtues previously mentioned, my life has reaped what it has sowed. I spent foolishly in my youth and did not invest into the things that truly matter in life. Family, community, and country. If we don’t take responsibility for our own actions then we just continue to lie to ourselves and keep falling further into that hole of despair. As bad as things are here in our society, allowing Islam to foster and grow here, is like kissing the devil. Don’t be surprised when he slips you the tongue. ( I told you I would use that my chat room friend) It is at times like this, when our culture is being attacked that we start to comprehend how fortunate we are to live in western society, to have the freedoms we have but with freedom comes great responsibility. Failure to recognise the obvious will result in destruction of ourselves. We are at the cross roads now…while we don’t need Islam to dictate to us how to live and what to believe, do we start to realize what we have and embrace it, nurture it, and discipline ourselves to do our part of making it better or do we continue to erode the fabric of our society until it is as wicked as Islam in a different way. Bottom line here is the ideology and religion of Islam has to go from here. It can return to the Middle East where it originated.We have spent hundreds of years building this country not to give it away in 30 yrs. to Muslims. Good, bad or indifferent, this is our country. We can work through our problems. We may have loss our way but using a moral compass will once again make our countries stronger than ever. Countries build on human rights, freedom, and a common respect for ourselves as Canadians, Americans or Europeons.
R KOWALS says
If they search these mosques more closely they will also find weapons.
They are using mosques for more than recruitment