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Austria: 2017 study warned of Muslim migrant antisemitism in city where Muslim attacked Jewish leader last week

Aug 28, 2020 2:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“An academic study of Muslim refugees in the southern Austrian city of Graz conducted three years ago warned that the strongly antisemitic views held by half of them were ‘alarming.'” Graz was the same city where a Muslim migrant recently attacked a Jewish leader with a baseball bat.

When Elie Rosen, head of the 150-member Jewish community, left his car, he was attacked by the stranger with a wooden stick and managed to escape back into the car. The attacker hit Rosen’s vehicle with a bat before he fled.

The Graz synagogue was attacked twice over the past week. Last Wednesday, antisemitic pro-Palestinian graffiti was smeared on the building.

The slogan “Free Palestine” was written on the synagogue, a phrase that typically means the elimination of the Jewish state.

This is not unique to Austria. Islamic antisemitism is common in other locations in Europe where significant Muslim migration has taken place. See HERE , HERE and HERE, and there’s a reason for it: normative Islamic doctrine condemns Jews, as should have been apparent to the entire world because of the targeting of Israel since 1948.

“Academic Study Warned of ‘Alarming’ Antisemitism Among Muslim Refugees in Austrian City Where Jewish Leader Was Attacked,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, August 25, 2020:

An academic study of Muslim refugees in the southern Austrian city of Graz conducted three years ago warned that the strongly antisemitic views held by half of them were “alarming.”

The study — by Ednan Aslan, professor of Islamic Religious Education of the University of Vienna — was revisited this week following the attack last Saturday on Elie Rosen, the president of the Jewish community in Graz, by a Syrian Islamist who had been living in Austria since 2013.

Chief Inspector Fritz Grundnig, the police officer heading the investigation into the assailant, described the unnamed man as “filled with hatred of Israel, Jews, gays, lesbians and prostitutes.”

The man was also charged with damaging a Catholic church, an LGBT+ club and a bar in Graz’s red-light district.

Aslan’s survey, conducted in 2017, involved interviews with nearly 300 Muslim refugees who had settled in Graz.

“It was noticeable that more than half had internalized antisemitism as part of their religiosity,” Aslan told the Austrian newspaper Der Standard on Monday. “It was even more suspicious that they were very reluctant to talk about it, and then very cautiously. So one had to take the high [level of] anti-Jewish prejudice all the more seriously.”

The report itself was all the more blunt, stating that the “alarming results of the study regarding antisemitic attitudes are certainly a special challenge for the city of Graz.”

Asked whether Jews had too much influence in the world, 46 percent agreed, with 44 percent also sharing the view that the Jewish religion was “harmful to the world.”

Nearly 55 percent of the refugees interviewed agreed with the statement that Jews “do not care about anyone except themselves.”

The same survey revealed deep intolerance of the LGBT+ community, with 50 percent believing that homosexuality was a sin “deserving of punishment.”

Aslan argued that because antisemitism was a “theological matter” for many Muslims, it was important to establish civic dialogue groups with local Jews, “so that Muslims can correct their ideas and reconsider their prejudices.”

“Through contact with Jews, they could have the experience of engaging with people who, like themselves, may be fathers and mothers, and have the same wishes for their children,” Aslan said. “Now it’s no longer ‘the Jew,’ but Mr. Rosen.”….

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Filed Under: Austria, Islamic antisemitism, Palestinian Authority Tagged With: Ednan Aslan, Graz, University of Vienna


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  1. Rethmann says

    Aug 28, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    The study warned, however, that antisemitism

  2. Stressed eric says

    Aug 28, 2020 at 2:54 pm

    Mentally ill Muslim scum are like rabid dogs following a filthy bloodthirsty perverted cult a stain on human8ty pigs of the free world

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 28, 2020 at 5:01 pm

      This is orthodox Islam, not individual mental illness, Eric.

  3. gravenimage says

    Aug 28, 2020 at 4:59 pm

    Austria: 2017 study warned of Muslim migrant antisemitism in city where Muslim attacked Jewish leader last week
    …………………

    I cannot be surprised by this.

    • Rufolino says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 8:01 am

      Surprised ??

      Good Heavens, no !

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 9:15 am

      Muslims hate Jews with a fervour that rabid dogs never display and water is wet. Two absolute givens. Actually, frozen water is not wet but the first statement is an absolute indissoluble fact.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 9:59 pm

      Grimly true, Rufolino and Giacomo.

  4. Clive Delmonte says

    Aug 28, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    I don’t know any place anywhere where Muslims and their hosts are happy.

  5. Jaydam says

    Aug 28, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    All these Muslim held views on Antisemitism, and anti LGBT, etc, have been well documented through out European countries, and the U.S over the last few years,…but the bigger issue is the MSM, Globalists, and left wingers who have been deliberately turning a blind eye to the big problems this is causing, which will result in absolute chaos in the coming years.

    They should be outed for what they are,… “Traitors”.

    For allowing the heritage, freedom of speech, democracy, and way of life of western culture to be destroyed from within, and all in the name of “DIVERSITY”

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