There is an undeniable problem of Islamic jihad activity in Western countries that puts national security at risk. For example, all too recently in France, a teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded because he showed Muhammad cartoons to his class; a UK teacher who did the same ended up being forced into hiding for his own safety and that of his family. Making the case of Samuel Paty much worse is the widespread Muslim outcry that Paty provoked his own fate and that France was being “Islamophobic” for implementing measures to combat “Islamic separatism.”
Now we also see a new heightened strain of Islamic antisemitism throughout Europe and North America, in the face of Israel defending its citizens from Hamas rocket attacks.
While it certainly does single out Islam to unveil “a new ‘Islam map’ showing the location of mosques and associations around the country,” this singling-out did not happen without reason. The reasoning behind this gesture is that Islam singled out itself by the reality of so many Muslims threatening the security of many Western countries. It is unfortunate that it has come to this.
Anyone can do a routine web search to find local churches, synagogues and gurdwars. Why should mosques be different? The “Islam map” serves mainly as an alert, since many mosques and associations have long been proven to be hotbeds for spreading the jihad ideology. Yet the Council of Europe has now asked Austria to retract the map, calling the map “hostile to Muslims and potentially counterproductive.”
“Minister Susanne Raab defended the publication, saying the objective was to fight political ideologies and not religion.” Outraged Muslim groups are now threatening “to file a lawsuit against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.”
“Austria sparks uproar with ‘Islam map,’” Arab News, May 27, 2021:
VIENNA: The Austrian government came under fire Thursday for a new “Islam map” showing the location of mosques and associations around the country, with religious groups saying it would stigmatize Austria’s Muslim population.
Earlier, Integration Minister Susanne Raab unveiled an Internet website called the “National Map of Islam” with the names and locations of more than 600 mosques, associations and officials and their possible links abroad.
But the interactive map — compiled in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the Documentation Center of Political Islam — alarmed many of Austria’s Muslims and the ruling center-right OeVP party’s coalition partner, the Greens, also distanced itself from it.
It “demonstrates the government’s manifest intent to stigmatize all Muslims as a potential danger,” said the IGGOe Muslim representative council in a statement.
The Green party’s spokeswoman for integration Faika El-Nagashi complained that “no Green minister or MP was involved or even told about it. The project mixes Muslims with Islamists and is the contrary to what integration policy should look like.”
Raab insisted that the map was not meant to “place Muslims in general under suspicion.”
The aim was “to fight political ideologies, not religion,” she said.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has regularly criticized what he calls “political Islam.”….
“Council of Europe asks Austria to retract contentious ‘Islam map,'” Daily Sabah, May 31, 2021:
The Council of Europe called upon Austria late Monday to withdraw the controversial “Islam map.”
Publication of the map is hostile to Muslims and potentially counterproductive, the top European human rights body said in a statement.
Countering extremism and ideologies that spread dangerous narratives under the guise of freedom of religion is an important national security task but the map serves “existing resentments” and many Muslims feel it as “extremely discriminatory,” the statement noted.
“They feel stigmatized and threatened in their security by the publication of addresses and other details.”
Last week, Austria’s Integration Ministry launched a website providing details of the country’s 620 mosques and Islamic associations, with the location, address and names of officials.
Minister Susanne Raab defended the publication, saying the objective was to fight political ideologies and not religion. But local Muslim organizations have accused the government of stigmatizing the country’s roughly 800,000 Muslim population as a potential danger to society and threatened to file a lawsuit against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz….
PRCS says
“There is an undeniable problem of Islamic jihad activity in Western countries that puts national security at risk.”
The problem is Islam.
Hatred of ALL other beliefs, the belief that Islamic law takes precedence over man-made laws. that Muslims are superior to everyone else and that we must acquiesce to them all make that clear.
Jihad, whether violent or not, is but one of Islam’s core components.
JCA Reid says
100% correct! They don’t integrate/assimilate. They’re here in Europe/the Free World to dominate & subjugate through their numbers. They turn their own countries into dystopian, dysfunctional shitholes & now want the same here! The only people that cannot see it are Western Politicians! The MSM should be screaming it from the tops of thwir Offices but they don’t!
PRCS says
Agree.
PRCS says
“The project mixes Muslims with Islamists”
Are there any Presbyterian Islamists?
Jayell says
How about Catholic muslims? Oh yes, there’s that one called Francis.
Hoi Polloi says
Right, bloody well right. Fran himself says he has been warned that he’s treading dangerously close to heresy on that issue, as RS has reported. Either the warning was issued long ago, before he crossed that line, or there’s no one with the courage now to inform him that he’s long over the line and into heresy.
hugo says
“Islam has nothing to do with Islamism or violence.”
Obama, so it must be true.
commonsense says
“The project mixes Muslims with Islamists and is the contrary to what integration policy should look like.”
Will someone finally and definitively tell us how an “Islamist” differs from a Muslim?
I’m waiting.
eduardo odraude says
An “Islamist” follows the example of Muhammad and is a true Muslim.
A “Muslim”, on the other hand, is often not much of a Muslim, and stands an excellent chance of being a far better human being than the Muslim who IS a true Muslim, i.e. than the Islamist.
Infidel says
Bruh, did you even read what you wrote?
eduardo odraude says
There is a method to the madness of what I wrote.
I was saying that, measured by the content of Qur’an and Hadith, the Islamist is the true Muslim. Whereas the “moderate” people called “Muslims” often know surprisingly little of the Qur’an and Hadith and are not true Muslims.
Giacomo Latta says
The individual who decapitated Samuel Paty was not an Islamist according to your definition, eduardo, just a muslim, but when he encountered someone practising freedom of expression he decided, based on his Islamic upbringing, that he had the right to kill someone. Big difference? I don’t see it.
Infidel says
Congratulations to Chancellor Kurz for such a brilliant move
Reason that muslims and their stooges are outraged is that such a map highlights the magnitude of muslim presence, and the threats they pose, and create a climate where the locals are more wary of them, and the muslims are unable to intimidate the locals. As for the disclaimer, it’s a distinction w/o a difference, since islam itself knows no difference b/w ideology and cult (and no, Virginia, it’s not a religion in the normal sense of the term)
As for the Council of Europe, Kurz should tell them where to shove it, and in fact, pull Austria out of that group
PRCS says
Religion:
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods
It’s not JUST a religion, it’s a totalitarian theocracy.
Time for Western “leaders”–like Kurz–to stop using nonsensical terms like “political Islam”, start dealing with Islam as it actually is, and make unequivocally clear that man-made law is THE law in their nations.
IMO
Infidel says
I have often argued that it’s a geopolitical cult. The cult part was well explained by Ali Sina – I posted a link to his explanation in a previous discussion. The geopolitical part – islam is more akin to Communism or Nazism than it is to Christianity or Buddhism
I agree w/ some on this site who refuse to call it a religion
PRCS says
But, it does meet the definition of religion and we need to accept that.
What one thinks or feels about Islam is just emotionalism and is so often wrong.
Facts must be used against Islam and Muslims, and to educate the public.
gravenimage says
Yes, Islam is a religion by all definitions. It is just a terribly harmful religion.
John says
Islam id different from other re;religions as Islam is a complete way of life, byt declares that peoples other than Islamist will be conquered, then peace will be possible. to understand see: http://www.politicalislam.com
Keys says
620 Mosques in Austria !
A cancer at 7.9% of the population.
Islamophobifying !
The Gates of Vienna are now the Streets of Vienna.
gravenimage says
Yes–a terrifying figure.
LKaplan says
My comment has nothing to do with the map published as per the article. But as an act of publicity I note that in America in the past week or so our papers are no longer reticent in publishing the race of the perpetrators. They soften it by saying things like the attacker appears to have dark skin.
gravenimage says
I haven’t noticed this myself…
Ken Johnson says
Every week I think I have seen it all. Now a Map is Islampjhobic. I’not stupid, but I fail to understand.
Ken
Hoi Polloi says
“stigmatize Austria’s Muslim population”……A population with corrupting international ties of questionable benefit to Austria. Adherents of a supremacist ideology with teachings commanding followers to kill the infidel, because, hey, that’s not stigmatizing in the least. And shouldn’t they be pleased that Austrians out for a stroll with their bacon sandwiches and forbidden erudition and “their” women allowed to walk down the sidewalk allowed to look up to see where they are going will now know how to avoid them?
Keith O says
To be fair the Austrian government should produce a map the shows the location of ALL religious sites with filters by religion, that would stop the BS from the mudslimes.
One of the filters should also show crime locations alongside the various religions.
So it could show for instance which churches have been attacked ETC. and where the various high crime areas are in relation to religious area.
This would prove to be very enlightening as well as being totally non discriminatory, but then the Islamist would still find something to bleat about.
Infidel says
This is actually a brilliant idea. Do ‘National Map of Catholicism’, ‘National Map of Lutheranism’, ‘National Map of Eastern Orthodox’, ‘National Map of Buddhism’ and so on, and include that w/ National Map of islam. And yeah, have the crime filters as well
Actually, this Austrian innovation ought to be emulated in other countries as well, be it the US, Canada, France, Germany, UK, Greece, Italy, Israel, India, Burma, Sri Lanka and every other country that has a problem w/ its muslim population. Maybe it can replace the ‘Austrian school of Economics’ as one of Austria’s greatest contributions to the world
gravenimage says
Yes. Of course, all of these good Infidels would use these maps to find places of worship and tourist attractions.
Infidel says
Yeah, it can double as a reference to find out places of worship and tourist attractions for Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, Shintos, Daoists and so on, while the mosque references can also warn people about where to avoid!
Christopher Watson says
There certainly should not be such a map! It should not be necessary. There should not be ANY muslims in Austria or in any European country. They have been causing problems in Europe for 1400 years and in last 60 years our brain-dead politicians have been letting them enter to kill civilians and make all our lives a misery. Their savagery and ways of life are completly foreign to us. Within 30 years or less there will be war on our streets. Welcome to the New Europe!
Infidel says
As long as there are muslims in Austria, there absolutely must be such a map
tim gallagher says
Muslims are never on side with what any government attempts to do to protect the non-Muslim population of their country. islam is always an enemy of all our western values and I believe it is always them or us when it comes to totally incompatible islam. This report is just one more example. It is also another example of how the Muslim enemy endlessly cries out that it is being victimised. Islam does not belong in any civilised western country. It is completely incompatible, is nothing but trouble, and is always seeking to undermine our western way of life.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
We have been eyes to see and ears to hear for a reason. The Austrian leaders do not disparage this truth rather honor this truth for the sake of truth.
gravenimage says
Austria unveils ‘National Map of Islam,’ outraging Muslims, who have threatened to sue Chancellor Kurz
…………..
Muslims in Austria don’t want Infidels to know where they are and how many of them have infiltrated Austria–until, of course, they make a final push to take over.
eduardo odraude says
Islam is obviously (to anyone sufficiently acquainted with Qur’an, Hadith, and Sira) in its core a theocratic political movement, even though not all those who call themselves Muslims subscribe to that. It is quite reasonable that Western nations, which for more than 1500 years have maintained an alternately waxing and waning but never entirely disappearing institutional distinction between church and state, would want to keep an eye on any Islamic movement and would desire the nation’s majority population to be informed about Islam’s institutions and the links between those and other nations. Islam, as a culture, is just obviously a threat to open societies, societies where everything is subject to debate and criticism, and where pluralism of religions and of cultures and of ideas is a bedrock value. One really has to be uninformed or willfully stupid not to see that on the whole, Islamic core teachings and the life of Muhammad run deeply counter to all that questioning and mingling and pluralism and seek instead an unquestionable mythos, a single permanent monoculture.
eduardo odraude says
And, by the way, one can be an atheist and still be a good enough historian to know that Judaism and Christianity are not merely compatible with open societies. Despite the egregious flaws and sins and oppressiveness of many of those who claimed to be adherents of Christianity or Judaism, the paradigms those religions represent have on the whole been massive forces gradually giving rise to and defending open societies.
gravenimage says
+1
Giacomo Latta says
If this an admission by the Austrian government that it has made mistakes concerning the acceptance of muslim immigrants and that it is time to correct those mistakes then this is a good first step, which needs to be followed by thousands more.
Hoi Polloi says
Agreed, but we’ve waited decades for mere acknowledgement. Seems too many are enriching themselves and will stop at the minor act of throwing us this small bone. Still, we can hope.
OLD GUY says
Great example of the Muslim/Islamic migration invasion of a non muslim country. If you allow your enemy within your country they will destroy you from within, not become a part of your society. The leaders of islam want to dominate the world and are working at it through migration.
Andrew Blackadder says
Even if the Austrian Government were to now post a map of all the buildings of the other religions in Austria, the muslims would still scream racism, or other such garbage, because they think they are all above the Law, even while they try and change it.
I lived in Innsbruck in 1972, no muslims around then, lovely place, great times were had by all, but then I could say that about every single City in Europe.
Now when I read there are 800,000 muslims in Austria, which is a rather small country, even by European standards, I find it rather discomforting, to say the least.
Now I live far far away from Europe.