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Austria is taking controversial steps to tighten a 100-year-old ‘Law on Islam’
WaPo ^
| 26 Feb 2015
| Elahe Izadi
Posted on 02/26/2015 5:01:26 PM PST by NRx
Igniting fresh controversy, Austria's parliament has approved significant changes to the country's "Law on Islam" a revamping of a 103-year-old law to expand certain legal protections while also placing new restrictions on Muslim organizations and how adherents practice their faith.
While the changes were proposed years ago long before attacks in France and Denmark by homegrown terrorists with extremist views the reforms passed Wednesday are intended to "clearly combat" the influence of radical Islam, according to Austria's conservative foreign affairs minister Sebastian Kurz, Agence France-Presse reported.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: austria; eussr; islam; lawonislam; oesterreich; rop
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:01:26 PM PST
by
NRx
To: NRx
There is no “radical” Islam.
It is just Islam.
Read the book.
Faithful followers of the book and their prophet are the ones being called radical. The ones being called moderate are either not serious about their faith or they are apostates.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:04:49 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
To: NRx
Reference to Austria’s Nazi associations in three, two, one...
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:04:51 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: NRx
yep, unfortunately this won’t work over time. They’re breeding like rats, off the public welfare purse. Kick them out, all of them, now. You can’t fight a cancer that goes unchecked.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:09:03 PM PST
by
john drake
(Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
To: NRx
well I don’t speak German...but there idoes seem to be a certain..charm to Austria just now
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:09:48 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
“well I dont speak German”
Well,,,according to obozo, you need to speak Austrian!
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:13:07 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: NRx
Australia, Slovakia, Austria —NICE...!!
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:14:45 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: john drake
So true. The key is to stop letting Islamic poison into normal countries. All the regulating and “outreach” in the world will not change demographic destiny.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:16:49 PM PST
by
Dagnabitt
(Islamic Immigration is Treason.)
To: john drake
Nigel Farage gave a great speech at CPAC that ended with our need to defend our shared Judeo Christian heritage and shut sharia out.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:17:26 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
and..his father helped free the Austrians at Auschwitz didn he?
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:22:28 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: NRx
Austria is taking controversial common-sense steps to tighten a 100-year-old Law on Islam
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:25:06 PM PST
by
Wiz-Nerd
To: NRx
Good timing. Going there for vacation in September.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:26:44 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
To: Lurkinanloomin
Bump to your comment, and welcome to FR!
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:31:58 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
Time to get Serious!
March starts on Sunday!
FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:33:04 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
To: NRx
An outright ban on Islam would be better, and it would save Austria a world of grief in the future. Islam is submission, no matter what it takes to get it. Stop pretending it is anything else.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:34:00 PM PST
by
pallis
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:36:02 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: cripplecreek
"What we want is to reduce the political influence and control from abroad and we want to give Islam the chance to develop freely within our society and in line with our common European values," he told the BBC.We should allow them to send just as many imams over here as missionaries are allowed in Saudi Arabia.
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:40:33 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:41:30 PM PST
by
newfreep
("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
HOWDY!
Id like to hear more about Obies dad or granfather of whatevers great adventures as a member of the lithuanian foreign legion.... as well
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:44:35 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: NRx
A 103-year old law?
So.... Islam was a serious problem in Austria 103 years ago?
So... nothing has changed then, huh?
(And the Crusades are an issue? Ha.)
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posted on
02/26/2015 5:48:15 PM PST
by
Noamie
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