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Austria announces plan to carry out surveillance on Muslim associations

Jul 31, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Kudos to the Austrian government. It is admirable to see a Western country prioritize the well-being of its citizens over political correctness and reject the prevailing cowardice in the face of Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood lobbies. Austria’s Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party and Green Party government “is preparing to institute a controversial surveillance program on Muslims in the country in a supposed bid to fight against so-called ‘political Islam.'”

It’s about time. Other Western countries should do this as well. Muslim Brotherhood groups and affiliates who continue to fight back with accusations of “Islamophobia,” as we see here: “Social Austria of the Future (SOZ) party chairman Hakan Gordu also said the documentation center would attack Islamic values and be led by purely biased experts.”

Every Western country has a responsibility to investigate authentic threats to its national security, contrary to the claims of far-Left activists and intimidation lobbies.

“Austria to launch Muslim profiling scheme,” by Askin Kiyagan, Anadolu Agency, July 20, 2020:

VIENNA — The center-right People’s Party (OVP) and Green Party government in Austria is preparing to institute a controversial surveillance program on Muslims in the country in a supposed bid to fight against so-called “political Islam.”

In the initiative announced by the government in January, various groups continued to push back against the continued pursuit of anti-Muslim and foreign policies that had begun under the previous far-right government.

The OVP announced that a planned documentation center would be established for “combating anti-Semitism, racism and religion-motivated extremism” and would only carry out suspicionless surveillance on elements of “political Islam.” The announcement drew much criticism from academics, rights groups and coalition partner Green Party lawmakers.

With these centers, the government, which plans to observe all Muslim associations, mosques and cultural activities, will decide which institutions to cooperate with.

The first and only documentation center was established in Austria in 1963 to combat Nazism and conduct research on Neo-nazi formations.

The move has been denounced by various circles, which said it placed Nazism and Islam on the same scale.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, political scientist from Georgetown University, Farid Hafez said Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz was known to cite supposedly academic research in a bid to bolster his political goals. Hafez said the center would conduct “scientific” studies to serve his government.

Warning that the government intentionally avoided sufficiently grounding its concept of “political Islam” to make it a more useful tool against Muslims, he noted that previous mosque closures and headscarf bans had also been associated with political Islam.

With this logic, any institution, person or religious activity could be associated with political Islam and subjected to various restrictions and obstacles, added Hafez.

He pointed out that Lorenzo Vidino, one of the experts leading the documentation center, defined supposed “political Islamists” as non-violent groups, acting under the law but in a way that was harmful to society.

The fact that Muslims have any independent or self-managed institution or organization in their field is considered dangerous by Sebastian Kurz and his team, said Hafez, adding that the government wanted Muslims to be dependent on elements controlled by the state and should not create anything new themselves.

Social Austria of the Future (SOZ) party chairman Hakan Gordu also said the documentation center would attack Islamic values and be led by purely biased experts, adding that it was established to serve activities that would lay the groundwork for Kurz’s political goals.

Gordu said the government could easily label a person or institution with “political Islam”…..

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Filed Under: Austria, Featured, mosques Tagged With: Farid Hafez, Green Party, Hakan Gordu, Lorenzo Vidino, People's Party, Sebastian Kurz


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  1. Edmund says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 9:41 am

    This path leads to nowhere. As long as Islam is taking ground, situation will be worse and worse. In future there will be religions wars like now in ex. Nigeria and constant development of Sharia law.

    Your country is taking muslim migrants ? Prepare for Your doom, which is only a matter of time.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 5:44 pm

      I hope this is a first step, Edmund.

    • RichardL says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 7:12 am

      sadly true. Don’t trust Kurz. Lorenzo Vidino moved from Switzerland to GWU only after he had collected enough money from Qatar for his centre there. Qatar is the sponsor of the MB. The Austrians have hired someone who is already an employee of Qatar. Robert Spencer should know this, he documented Vidino’s exploits at GWO

  2. Mike says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 9:57 am

    At least it may open there EYE”s
    we can only hope

  3. mortimer says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 9:58 am

    ‘Political Islam’ is indeed the problem. It is also termed ‘Islamism’. At last Austrians are seeing it as THE problem.

    Father Henri Boulad’s (SJ) Description of “Islamism”:

    “Islamism is not a caricature, nor a counterfeit, nor a heresy, nor a fringe or atypical phenomenon versus classical, orthodox, Sunnite Islam.

    To the contrary, I think Islamism is naked Islam, Islam without a mask and without paint, Islam perfectly consistent and true to itself, an Islam that has the courage and lucidity to go all the way to its ultimate conclusions and final implications.

    Islamism is Islam in all its logic and in all its rigour. Islamism is present in Islam as the chick is present in the egg, as the fruit is present in the flower and as the tree is present in the seed.

    But what is Islamism?

    Islamism is political Islam, the bearer of a project for a model society and whose aim is to establish a theocratic state based on Sharia, the only legitimate law—since it is divine—since it was revealed and enshrined in the Koran and Sunna—it’s a law that applies to everything.

    Here is an all-inclusive and all-encompassing project, one that is total, totalizing and totalitarian.”

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 6:52 pm

      “Our Islam is political” – Mullah Krekar

  4. OTTER says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 11:29 am

    Some countries are developing the necessary expertise to deal with Islam. This looks like a step in the right direction. Myanmar and Srilanka are also suitably aware of the curse of Islam.

    But the only country and the only party which has truly realized what Islam is and is taking steps to deal with it as a virus, which it actually is, is the communist Chinese party.

  5. elee says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 12:26 pm

    “BOUT EFFIN TIME!

  6. craig says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    The smartest thing to do would be to expel the members of this criminal organization from the country entirely. Send the swine back to where they came from. Islam can only thrive by continued expansion.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 2:34 pm

      All Muslims should be expelled from the West. That is the only real, long-term solution. If they are allowed to stay, sooner or later they will be our masters. Enforcing our laws cannot save us, because once Muslims have the necessary numbers, our laws will be replaced by Sharia. So either they go, or the civilized world will become Islamized.

      • Fred says

        Aug 1, 2020 at 6:26 pm

        You got it.

  7. Ray Jarman says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    Hafez’s statement, “that the government wanted Muslims to be dependent on elements controlled by the state and should not create anything new themselves,” is inaccurate. I think that Sebastian Kurtz is really saying that Muslims should be enthusiastically saying, “Ausi, Ausi, Ausi” rather than screaming and yelling “Allahu Akbar.” I am sure that Kurtz has no illusions about the danger to his nation from these slugs with the intelligence of a retarded earthworm who slither from under a rock in order to slaughter the good willed people who accepted their pleas for mercy.

  8. Keith O says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    A small step in the right direction, however, this and much stronger actions should have been taken decades ago.
    So is it too little far too late?

  9. Günther Skov says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 5:38 pm

    Globalist power rules, Austria, and the people say Nada Nix … Everything according to plan … And the leader is just a lackey … !!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      How does Austria surveilling Muslims make them “lackeys”? This seems to indicate just the opposite.

  10. gravenimage says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    Austria announces plan to carry out surveillance on Muslim associations
    ………………

    This is a good step.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jul 31, 2020 at 6:02 pm

      +1

    • curious says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 12:47 am

      +1

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    ” it placed Nazism and Islam on the same scale.”
    No?
    “Islam’s worldview is very similar to ours” – Himmler

  12. AleX says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    “Wiith these centers, the government, which plans to observe all Muslim associations, mosques and cultural activities, will decide which institutions to cooperate with.”

    This paragraph should translate into:

    The Govt. WILL observe ALL Muslim political cells, barracks, weapons’ caches, indoctrination centers and Shari’a hubs and decide to heavily monitor them in all possible surveillance manners.

  13. nicholas tesdorf says

    Jul 31, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Every civilised country should follow Austria in investigating, monitoring and prosecuting threats to its national security. As a precaution, every civilised country should halt all immigration by Muslims from any source. All such immigration is a greater health threat that Covid-19.

  14. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 11:39 am

    I applaud Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz. He is protecting Austrians from the vile and satanic religion of Islam. Austria seems to not want to follow in the footsteps of the EU with regard to Islam, and that is a good thing!

    (My grandma Rosina came to the US from Austria in 1924. She was a devout Roman Catholic and loved her heritage but was also a patriotic American. She obeyed all the US laws and was charitable to not only her family but to other people as well, in Austria, the US and wherever she traveled.)

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2020 at 12:33 am

      Thanks for that account, Linde.

  15. OLD GUY says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 11:51 am

    Awesome! All christian and freedom loving countries need to follow suite. And should consider closing immigration to followers of islam.

  16. Hardiharhar says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    Save the cost by applying the Queen Isabella solution. Raus mit allen!

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