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Austria: Four Muslim migrants including an imam convicted for recruiting for the Islamic State

Oct 23, 2019 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Austrian state of Styria, dubbed “the green heart of Austria,” is known for its vineyards, and is loaded with cultural history and architectural attractions. Like other places, it has not escaped the jihad:

Four Turkish-born men, including an imam, have been convicted of recruiting for the Islamic State in Graz, the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria.

The prosecutor called for strict punishment, and stated: “We have to stop with false tolerance,” and that “Islamism supplants the rule of law if we are not careful.”

Yes. Islamic supremacists only escalate their activities when appeased. So let’s hope that these four Turkish jihadists will be given a harsh sentence, and that Austria will deal adequately with its jihad problem in general.

The Austrian people are nervous, and have reason to be. Jihad terror is the number one threat to Austria, according to an Australian intelligence report, and at least 320 people from the country have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight for the Islamic State and other jihadist groups. A study “found that 70 per cent of Austrians believed that Islam was not compatible with the West.”

Last year, then-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ordered the closing down of seven mosques “and the scrutiny of the right of dozens of Turkish imams to remain in the country, citing suspected violations of an Austrian law that bans ‘political Islam’ or foreign financing of Muslim institutions.”

The new Chancellor, Brigitte Bierlein, who took over last spring, is soft on issues of Islamization. She commented that the passing of a law to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in primary schools was “problematic,” and added that “all religious communities should be treated equally.” She is correct, but it is also true that “all religious communities” should be living in harmony with other religious communities and be respectful of human rights, religious freedom and democracy when living in free societies. Leaders such as Bierlein are clueless about the sharia and the jihad threat.

“‘Islamists Are Islamic Nazis’: Imam, Three Others Convicted of ISIS Recruiting,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, October 21, 2019:

Four Turkish-born men, including an imam, have been convicted of recruiting for the Islamic State in Graz, the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria.

A 47-year-old imam from Turkey was sentenced to seven years in prison for recruiting “a number of young men” to join ISIS, reports The Jerusalem Post. Three other men were given sentences ranging between five months and six years for their roles in the recruiting process.

The prosecutor in the case called for strict punishment of the convicted Islamists, saying in comments reported by Kronen Zeitung: “Islamists are Islamic Nazis.”

He went on to say that “We have to stop with false tolerance” and that “Islamism supplants the rule of law if we are not careful”.

One of the convicted men had sent an AK47 rifle scope from Austria to his brother, who is an Islamic State sniper. The man’s attorney said that it was a “mistake”, claiming that he did not know what his brother needed it for.

The prosecutor had remarked in response: “He will not have used it as a paperweight.”

Austrians are increasingly concerned over the issue of Islam in their country. A recent study found that 70 per cent of Austrians believed that Islam was not compatible with the West…..

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  1. Lotus says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:12 am

    Sounds like the prosecutor is awake to the Islamic threat. Good man.

    Pity about the Chancellor, though.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 23, 2019 at 9:03 am

      Yes, the prosecutor is Islamo-knowledgeable: ” “Islamism supplants the rule of law if we are not careful.”

      Correct: ‘Islamism’ is the ‘political ideology’ of Islamic supremacism. Supremacists place their IDEOLOGY above sovereign states.

      Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein is a virtue-signalling, naive Pollyanna in the matter of Islamic veil. The veil is both a supremacist uniform and the woman-hating uniform imposed by misogynistic Islamic patriarchy.

      The Islamic veil is NOT PER SE ‘religious’. It is a POLITICAL STATEMENT of ISLAMIC MALE SUPREMACY. The Islamic veil IDENTIFIES women that Muslim male supremacists MAY NOT RAPE.

      • elee says

        Oct 23, 2019 at 11:58 am

        +1. The veil is a marker of immunity from unlawful assaults, kidnappings rapes and enslavements. K 33 :59.

      • elee says

        Oct 23, 2019 at 12:02 pm

        The veil is a visible marker of participation in a criminal conspiracy. If the Ku Klux Klan proclaimed that some form of identity Christianity commanded them to go about hooded and robed, would we be forced to allow it?

  2. mortimer says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:49 am

    Meanwhile, Leftarded editors at Wikipedia (and elsewhere) pretend there is NO CONSPIRACY involved from within Islam, even when every single day, there are links discovered between terrorists and certain mosques and/or religious teachers preaching at those mosques.

    What will it take for the Leftards to drop their FALSE NARRATIVE which pretends that Islam is a BENIGN ideology.

    In fact, Islam is a SUPREMACIST IDEOLOGY and the doctrine of “TAQIYYA” IS IPSO FACTO CONSPIRATORIAL.

    – “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon

    Nothing to see here …

    • SemiDave says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 7:15 am

      You, yourself, can edit Wikipedia.
      I suggest that everyone who cares becomes active at editing Wikipedia! Either the truth will remain or Wikipedia will end. After all it survives on donations.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 25, 2019 at 12:06 am

        There is some process you have to go through–you can’t just start editing Wikipedia out of the blue. You have to register with Wikipedia. I doubt they allow many Anti-Jihadists.

        • Angemon says

          Oct 25, 2019 at 7:06 am

          “I doubt they allow many Anti-Jihadists.”

          And you would be right: certain viewpoints aren’t allowed on supposedly impartial Wikipedia:

          https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/23/wikipedia-bans-editors-from-gender-related-articles-amid-gamergate-controversy

          https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/a-feminist-edit-a-thon-seeks-to-reshape-wikipedia

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 26, 2019 at 12:59 am

          Yes–I have heard of similar cases, Angemon.

  3. Al says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:52 am

    The more these Governments fear Islamists, the stronger, and more dangerous they become. Jihadists will not stop growing stronger in the west, and across the globe if nations fear them, and appease them. This threat is global with the intent to remove democratic governments from power and to establish Islamic rule with Sharia Laws which will permanently destroy all free will, and to be controlled by Islamists Jihadist terror fractions, just like in Syria, Iran etc..People need to understand Not to let their governments be passive and be controlled by Islamists terror..if your govt is being bought out by Islam, it will be controlled by Islam. This will lead to death and destruction to all none-Muslims..Vote to remove passive compliant leaders from power before it’s too late for you to Vote in the future! Otherwise None-Muslims will suffer greatly under Islamic rule..Fix it now, before you Can’t any more! The Free world Needs to stay Strong!!

  4. Lotus says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:56 am

    Muslims will never adapt to non-Muslim societies. Islam compels them to always seek to dominate others, not to live peacefully alongside them.

    If Muslims do appear to tolerate others, it is merely an appearance, a tactic to build up their numbers and wait for favourable opportunities to grow in power and influence.

    One of the best historical examples of this is the case of Granada. It was the last holdout of Muslims in Spain, but in 1492 it was conquered by the Christians.

    Below is an extract from Raymond Ibrahim’s book ‘Sword and Scimitar’, which describes what happened next.

    In particular, notice that the only solution to the Muslim problem was to physically deport all of them to North Africa.

    Effectively, the Christians said to them, ‘We’ve tried to integrate you, we’ve given you many chances, but you are incorrigible, a permanent enemy in our midst. So you’ve got to go.’

    Are there lessons here for today? Of course. But today’s political leaders are in a stupor and will not grasp the nettle. And how many people these days know their history? This struggle against Islam is not taught in schools today, and in fact would probably be labelled Islamophobic.

    • Al says

      Oct 23, 2019 at 9:03 am

      You’re so Right! I agree, and have known this for many years. The problem is, ”Leaders” of the free world are Not paying attention, and don’t care about their own, they are more complicit to the Islamic cause.

    • elee says

      Oct 23, 2019 at 11:59 am

      +1

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 25, 2019 at 12:07 am

      Good post.

  5. Lotus says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:59 am

    Here’s the exract from ‘Sword and Scimitar’. It illustrates what a struggle we have on our hands.

    // When it surrendered in 1492, Granada’s nearly half-million Muslim population had nowhere else to go— except the deserts of Africa—and so chose to remain. Although they were initially granted lenient terms, including the right to travel abroad and practice Islam freely, these mudejares [tamed ones] proved far from “tamed.”

    They launched many hard-to-quell uprisings—several “involving the stoning, dismembering, beheading, impaling, and burning alive of Christians”—and regularly colluded with foreign, mostly Muslim, powers (first North Africans, later Ottoman Turks) in an effort to subvert Spain back to Islam.

    A final “Muslim uprising in 1499, and the crushing of this revolt in 1501, led to an edict that Muslims had to convert to Christianity or leave the peninsula.”

    Contrary to popular belief, the motivation was less religious and more political; it was less about making Muslims “good Christians” and more about making them “good citizens.” So long as they remained Muslim, they would remain hostile and disloyal to Christian Spain; and because secularism, atheism, and multiculturalism were not options then, the only practical way Muslims could slough off their tribalism was by embracing Christianity.

    Under such circumstances, sharia is clear: Muslims should try to emigrate. But there has always been one important caveat: whenever Muslims find themselves under infidel authority, they may say and do almost anything—denounce Muhammad, receive baptism and communion, venerate the cross, all anathema to Islam—so long as their hearts remain true to Islam. Such is the doctrine of taqiyya, which has traditionally defined Islam’s modus operandi under non-Muslim authority.

    Unsurprisingly, then, taqiyya defined Islam in post-Reconquista Spain. Once the edict to convert or emigrate appeared, virtually the entire Granadan population—hundreds of thousands of Muslims—openly embraced Christianity but remained crypto-Muslims. Publicly they went to church and baptized their children; at home they recited the Koran, preached undying hate for the infidel and their obligation to liberate al-Andalus.

    Christians initially tried to reason with the Moriscos; they reminded them how they became Muslim in the first place: “Your ancestor was a Christian, although he made himself a Muslim” to avoid persecution or elevate his social status; so now “you also must become a Christian.”

    When that failed, Korans were confiscated and burned; then Arabic, language of Islam, was banned. When that too failed, more extreme measures were taken; it reached the point that a Morisco could “not even possess a pocketknife for eating with that did not have a rounded point, lest he savage a Christian with it.”

    For no matter how much the Moriscos “might present the appearance of a most peaceful submission,” writes [the chronicler] Bertrand, “they remained nevertheless fundamental Musulmans, watching for a favourable opportunity and patiently awaiting the hour of revenge, promised by their prophecies.”

    Thus, when a rumor arose in 1568 that the Ottoman Turks had finally come to liberate them, formerly “domesticated” and “tamed” Muslims near Granada,

    “believing that the days under Christian rule were over, went berserk. Priests all over the countryside were attacked, mutilated, or murdered; some were burned alive; one was sewed inside a pig and barbequed; the pretty Christian girls were assiduously raped, some sent off to join the harems of Moroccan and Algerian potentates.”

    In the end, if Muslims could never be loyal to infidel authority—constantly colluding and subverting, including with foreign Muslims—and if conversion to Christianity was no solution due to the dispensation of taqiyya, then only one solution remained: between 1609 and 1614, all Moriscos were expelled from the Peninsula to Africa, at which point the nearly one-thousand-year-old war for Spain was truly at an end. //

  6. Eur says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 10:27 am

    another wonderful day in the multicultural paradise (euphemism used to avoid saying live with Muslims)

  7. Angemon says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    ‘Islamists Are Islamic Nazis

    But not unislamic.

    • Trick_or_Treat says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 12:26 am

      And the qur’an is a different type of ‘Mein Kampf’, the lunatic ravings of a different madman, but basically the same thing.

  8. Battle says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 8:09 pm

    Lotus hits nail on head. Good.

  9. Goofy says

    Oct 24, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    To engage in unauthorized warfare in other countries must legally be viewed as treason and result in expulsion/loss of Austrian citizenship. This must be a general principle applicable to everyone, Muslim or not.

  10. gravenimage says

    Oct 25, 2019 at 12:02 am

    Austria: Four Muslim migrants including an imam convicted for recruiting for the Islamic State
    ……………

    How many more are there, in Austria and the rest of the West, just like these Muslim thugs?

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