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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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To: Lurkinanloomin

21 posted on 02/26/2015 5:50:25 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Wiz-Nerd

Not enough. No Western country — especially the USA — should allow Islam to be practiced within its borders.

The USA is a CHRISTIAN republic.It needs to stay that way!


22 posted on 02/26/2015 6:07:29 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: Noamie

Vienna Austria was besieged in 1683 by a mooselimb army led by Kara Mustafa, Grand Vizer of the Ottoman Empire.
Had they not been stopped by Jan Sobieski, King of Poland, there might not be any Christianity.


23 posted on 02/26/2015 6:39:25 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: skeeter

Nazis and Muzzies got along great.


24 posted on 02/26/2015 6:40:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NRx

“Controversial.”


25 posted on 02/26/2015 7:19:01 PM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Noamie; NRx
Very apt comments here. I have studied a little history about the great menace to all Western civilized Europe. The mighty Ottoman Empire twice sent huge forces to take Vienna Please excuse the history if anyone already knows of it.

1529. Siege of Vienna. Ottomans defeated.
1683.Siege of Vienna. Ottomans defeated.

The forces of Islam made the attempt to subjugate Europe. A great pair of victories. They who ignore the lessons of the past are thus doomed to make terrible mistakes (or something like that) Excuse the rant.

26 posted on 02/26/2015 7:36:16 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: MeshugeMikey
well I don’t speak German.


27 posted on 02/26/2015 7:37:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Woops!

I did not see that you had already aptly described the great victory of the Polish hero over Islam. This in 1683.

Welcome to the club!

28 posted on 02/26/2015 7:50:52 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: dfwgator

ahahaha THANK YOU!


29 posted on 02/26/2015 8:04:53 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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