Austria Govt to shutdown Mosques

Vienna, June 08: Austria government has plans to shut seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams in what it said was "just the beginning" of a push against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups that Turkey condemned as racist.The moves follow a "law on Islam", passed in 2015, which banned foreign funding of religious groups and created a duty for Muslim organizations to have "a positive fundamental view towards (Austria s) state and society"."Political Islam s parallel societies and radicalizing tendencies have no place in our country," said Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who, in a previous job as a minister in charge of integration, steered the Islam bill into law.Austria, a country of 8.8 million people, has roughly 600,000 Muslim inhabitants, most of whom are Turkish or have families of Turkish origin.

1/Austria s decision to close seven mosques and expel imams is a reflection of the Islamophobic, racist and discriminatory wave in this country. It is an attempt to target Muslim communities for the sake of scoring cheap political points.

— Ibrahim Kalin (@ikalin1) June 8, 2018