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Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques

Jun 8, 2018 1:15 pm By Robert Spencer

Choosing national security over socialist internationalism and politically correct posturing. Bravo.

“Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown,” Associated Press, June 8, 2018:

BERLIN – Austria’s government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Friday that the government is shutting a hardline Turkish nationalist mosque in Vienna and dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques.

The actions by the government were based on a 2015 law that, among other things, prevents religious communities from getting funding from abroad. Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the residence permits of around 40 imams employed by ATIB, which oversees Turkish mosques in Austria, are being reviewed.

Kickl said that, in two cases, permits have already been revoked. Five more imams were denied first-time permits….

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  1. Genevieve Grover says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    Thanks for watching as in the USA this is a subject of concern to me as many have warned….trying to spread the news of about the take-over as it is happening in Europe. Spread this and share our Children deserve our concern. Pamela Geller, Act For America I give credit for knowledge info and now you ROBERT SPENCER….

  2. Older Canadian says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    So what is this all about? Is Merkel using Austria as a pilot run? Find it difficult to believe there is no squawking from the EU and UN about this.

    • Proud Kaafir says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 3:39 pm

      Pls wait another three weeks. Austria will be heading EU and I am sure by the end of this year things will be totally different.

    • LB says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 5:50 am

      Nah, Germany got nothing to do with this. This is the doing of Austria’s new right-wing government that openly declared support and willingness to cooperate with the Visegrad group. It’s weird given the fact that up til now Austria always clung to their big brother Germany and EU. While I’m not entirely convinced that Austria can break away from the globalists’ grip that easily, this is certainly a step in the right direction. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 9:12 pm

        +1

      • Jenny H says

        Jun 10, 2018 at 8:19 am

        I suppose Austria still feels empathy with and connection to Hungary, from the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  3. jewdog says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    Gute!

  4. mariam rove says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    Mean while Erdogan is having a s…fit about this as those mosques were financed by Turkey. M

    • Fred Dawes says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 2:26 pm

      Yes Erdogan wants Islam to control EUROPE And control it with the election and cultural destruction and mass death of the European people and replace that people with others who will follow orders to do evil.

      • elee says

        Jun 8, 2018 at 3:34 pm

        Very pleased to read this thread. Huge kudos to Au8stria but more than that, huge kudos to you who have taken the trouble to inform yourselves. Keep up the good work.

  5. Fred Dawes says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    Keep up the good work of removing evil doers, don’t become Nazi Germany, Fight Islam and all its evil works.

  6. Linda says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:38 pm

    This is a step in the right direction. Good for Austria.

  7. Ray Jarman says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:56 pm

    Leave it to the smaller nations of Europe to lead in the struggle to retain their heritage and freedoms.

  8. Martin says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    “The longest journey begins with a single step.”

    May the closure of these seven mosques be the first of the closure of all the mosques outside the Muslim World.

    • Peace says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 6:36 pm

      Now bulldoze the building, so they can’t slime back in

  9. elee says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    Applause to all posters who have taken the trouble to be informed about this and to express themselves here. Oh and did you know……that Erdogan’s Diyanet has a huge building in Maryland, in the DC Metropolitan area? Oh and that they don’t particularly care to disclose what occurs there? After all, what they propose to do with us kafirs is a religious matter protected by the First Amendment.

    If the Commies had been smart enough to call their tyrannical designs a religion, we’d be speaking Russian now. Well, we might get there yet.

  10. Georg says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    Good on them. No more demoralization from the cultural beggars.

  11. pemba says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:12 pm

    Well DONE Austria, keep it up.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    Austria to close 7 mosques, expel imams in crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of mosques
    …………………….

    Good for Austria!

    • christianblood says

      Jun 8, 2018 at 6:54 pm

      gravenimage

      This move by Austria was more of a political move against Erdogan than to dealing with islamists in Austria as all the closed mosques had Turkish connections. If they really want to deal with islamist mosques in Austria, there over 100 Saudi-funded Salafi mosques noperating in Austria and none of them is closed down.

      • Mockingjay says

        Jun 8, 2018 at 7:30 pm

        “…and dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques.”

        Read, Christianblood, READ.

        • christianblood says

          Jun 9, 2018 at 8:18 am

          Mockingjay

          Good point! It is good that they included this Arab islamic gorup. It didn’t include in the original reports that I saw, they only mentioned the Turkish-funded mosques.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 9:20 pm

        “Christianblood” wrote:

        gravenimage

        This move by Austria was more of a political move against Erdogan than to dealing with islamists in Austria as all the closed mosques had Turkish connections. If they really want to deal with islamist mosques in Austria, there over 100 Saudi-funded Salafi mosques noperating in Austria and none of them is closed down.
        ……………………….

        Good grief–is “Christianblood” now such an apologist for Jihad that he is condemning someone if they–supposedly–only shut down the “wrong” Mosques?

        Besides, I *very much* doubt that the “Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques” is Turkish…

  13. Bob Smith says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    American RICO statutes (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) were intended to go after the mafia. The acts of Islamic mullahs and jihadis clearly falls into the same pattern as the mafia. The only difference being, Islam’s claim of an oddball form of “religious legitimacy”.

    The US should use the RICO statutes to, declare Islam, a criminal enterprise. Then close Islam down as it presently exists in the US.

    RICO allows the government to follow crime and money. Then, arrest all, and confiscate anything in its path.

    You can be sure the movement of money for jihad is widespread. You can be sure the incitement and communication between mullahs and mosques is wide spread. You can also be sure there is foreign involvement. The RICO statutes were made just for this type of activity.

    Use a small army of CPAs and attorneys to investigate every jihad attack. Follow 100% of the money back to its source. Track anyone involved, in any way. Then use the RICO statutes to jail, confiscated, and shut down all involved. That includes:

    M1 – Shutting down mosques involved in any jihad attack.
    M2 – Arrest mullahs involved.
    M3 – Follow, and confiscate, all jihad money back to its source.

    Read it all at: https://rico-m3.blogspot.com/

    • RichardL says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 1:23 am

      You are right: in the US the second amendment protects islam and RICO would be a way around that.

      The Austrians really don’t like the Germans and so this tough stance makes Kurz look like he is taking on Merkill. Austrian for him and good for Austria.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 3:00 am

        Richard, I think if you check the First Amendment establishes “free exercise of religion”. The Second establishes the right to keep and bear arms as part of a “well regulated militia”, whatever that means. Fortunately, in my opinion, the undefined militia remains comprised of every law-abiding citizen in the US at this time as it has since the Founding.

        There are a lot of RICO cases to read. Many of them involved criminal enterprises unconnected with the Mafia, until some case was decided that the law was not intended to cover what I thought was the clear language, of any “enterprise” involving multiple people who commit 2 or more “predicate acts”. That case could be reversed by a new decision or by legislation. There is no prohibition in the law for arguing for a change or correction in the previous case. But like always, you have to find a prosecutor to take it and a DOJ Attorney General who will authorize the prosecution. Dismal and disappointing outlook at this time.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 9, 2018 at 9:23 pm

        Wait–how does the Second Amendment protect Islam?

  14. somehistory says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:02 pm

    It takes courage to do the right thing, esp when so many others are engaging in wrongdoing and calling it ‘right.’
    This is the second good news out of Austria posted here recently. This young man has courage. And so those also who see the danger in allowing outsiders to have a large influence….as in “funding”…on what happens inside the borders.

    The beast will not take this sitting down,…it will keep lying… but hopefully, it’s the time for the beast to begin losing the war between good and evil.

    • Joss says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 10:42 am

      The islamists’ll be screaming to the dhimmi EUHRC about their ‘yewmun rites’!!

  15. eduardo odraude says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    Containment of the the granddaddy of totalitarianisms is finally beginning. It happened with communism, and it will happen with Islam, but it will be a difficult ideological battle every step of the way. Islam must be “sent to its room” until it learns to play nice. If it can learn. I don’t think it can, I think it is too rigid in its foundations and therefore can only break. But I’ve nothing against further Muslim immigration if Islam does incorporate real freedom.

    Until a majority of Muslim-majority nations permit freedom of speech and freedom of religion, there should be a moratorium on immigration of Muslims to non-Muslim nations. The exclusion can end just as soon as a majority of Muslims demonstrate in their own nations that they stand up for freedom. It is suicidal to let in large numbers of people from a culture that has an amply demonstrated record of incorrigible, sacralized totalitarianism.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 9, 2018 at 10:31 pm

      Freedom and equality are un-Islamic.

  16. DHazard says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 5:37 pm

    Is Europe starting to awaken or is it becoming divided again? The drift toward self blaming and self destruction has a lot of momentum behind it. Instead of the iron wall we might be seeing the beginnings of a new wall made completely out of common sense.

  17. Timothy says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    It is nice to see Islamophobia not getting the upper hand!

  18. Guilherme says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:25 pm

    Hurra Österreich!

  19. Mockingjay says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 7:25 pm

    Sebastian Kurz rules! He really does.

    – Notice also that his government is making this announcement on a friday…and its rammadamn.
    Nice touch.

    – But I guess, that’s all just a coincedence.

  20. abad says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    Good news for a change.

    Austria is wising up and realizing that Islam has no place at all in their country. The rest of western Europe needs to follow suit and deport Moslems on their turf back to the Middle East.

  21. Lydia Church says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Someone is taking the RIGHT steps here, unlike the Swiss.

  22. Mantel says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Ausgezeichnet, hervorragend. Jetzt geht’s los! Weiter machen ! Oesterreich wir lieben Euch. Gruesse aus Australien

  23. Debi Brand says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    “ Austria’s government is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on ‘political Islam’”

    No kidding?

    So then, like, are they closing all mosques in Austria? Expelling all imams?

    They’ll need to; here’s why:

    “Hence the application of the term Haram for Medina: [Haram] it signifies an entity that is “half-religious and half-political.” Hence, “Medina is a Haram,” because Medina represented and showcased Islam, and Islam was an entity that was and is “half-religious and half-political.” (Hamidullah, P. 17.)

    (OpposingIslam

    Chapter Three: The Islam of “the Inhabitants of Al-Medeenah”

    dlbrand June 7, 2018:Khalid Masood: mere Muslim, no Muslim, or one among “those who believe”?

    OpposingIslam )

    By Debi Brand

    ………………………………………………………………

    Thus, Medina, City of the Prophet, would become the first City/State to display Islam. Ergo, the product of that Islam-on-Display City/State, spoken to in the Preface of “the Muwatta of Imam Malik, who passed his whole life in Medina.”

    (Imam Malik, Muwatta, Translated with Exhaustive Notes by Professor Muhammad Rahimuddin, Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, Publishers & Booksellers, Lahore-Pakistan, Reprint 2005, Preface.)

    Therefore, provides that record, having had the benefit of “direct access to the most reliable authorities on Hadith, because most of the leading Companions of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) lived and died in Medina,” Maliki’s Muwatta is regarded by many a scholar as “the most authentic book on Hadith.” (Preface, P. iii.) Because, as touched on, “The juristic verdicts in Muwatta reflect the practice of the Medinese and the consensus of the Medinese scholars.” (Ibid)

    “The word ‘Muwatta’ literally means the trodden or beaten path.” It “means that path trodden or beaten path which has been trodden upon by all the Companions of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) … it means the agreed practice of the Companions of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him).” (Ibid.)

    The practice of the Companions was such because it was the practice of their leader, the alleged, “Holy Prophet.” The man, who, as cited above, according to Islamic doctrine, did nothing of his own accord, did and said all he did only by the will, leave, and inspiration he allegedly received from “Allah.”

    Therefore, in the Muwatta, are the narratives of the trodden or beaten path of the first generation of “believers,” the exemplary works of the Medinese Muslims. Those who learned their Islam directly from the alleged Prophet of Islam himself. Therefore, if it happened in or around Medina, with the permission, sanctioning, or approval of the “Prophet,” it was safe to accept, such were sanctioned acts of Islam.

    For such reasons the widespread regard for the determinative value of amal ahl al-Medinah (the practice of the Medinans). (Kamili, P. 103.) Guidance, “religious” as well as political.

    Hence the application of the term Haram for Medina: [Haram] it signifies an entity that is “half-religious and half-political.” Hence, “Medina is a Haram,” because Medina represented and showcased Islam, and Islam was an entity that was and is “half-religious and half-political.” (Hamidullah, P. 17.)

    And in that newly formed City-State, the implementing of the above-mentioned constitution, therewith implementing Islam.

    ………………………………..

    Read the rest of the chapter here: http://www.debibrand.org/chapter-three-the-islam-of-the-inhabitants-of-al-medeenah/

  24. infidel says

    Jun 8, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    Erdogan is a REAL DISGUSTING SLIME-BALL… Heard that he is ranting and raving because of this development in Austria.. He is extremely disrespectful of non-Muslims and is on a Sharia Binge of his country..

  25. Larry says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 6:51 am

    Bravo!

  26. peter says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 8:22 am

    I think that the sea change in attitude of lof of young people is due to internet where people can gather the information themselves and analyse the facts to know the truth . Internet has helped a lot of young pepole to develop critical thinking which we as human beings are uniquely endowed with and which is completely suppressed in Islam. The popular media and news papers will be dinosours of the past in near future .So called TV jorunalists on popular media will be extinct soon! God bless America and God bless internet.

  27. Giacomo Latta says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 9:18 am

    Erdogan wants to recreates the Ottoman Empire as much as Putin wants to recreate the glory of the (heavy-handed,nuke-happy) former Soviet Empire. Among the things that Turkish imams are doing in Austria is having kids parade waving a Turkish flag as they recreate Turkey’s victory in Gallipoli. Obviously Austria is checking to make sure all citizens are becoming good Austrian citizens and not future Austia-overthrowers. It’s time for the rest of us to be this smart.

  28. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jun 9, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    Young austrian Chancellor Amadeus is starting to look pretty smart.

  29. TWG says

    Jun 10, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    Good news from Austria. It thrills me to no end witnessing this small wave of sanity coming from places like Austria, Italy, Poland, Czechia, Hungary…….. I pray it becomes an overwhelming, record-breaking, unstoppable tsunami, and sooner the better for the world.

    (Ahhhhh, Sebastian Kurz…… My new crush) 😉

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