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How omnipresent the danger is from people who have been radicalized by merciless hate preachers was impressively demonstrated on Wednesday in Linz. Waving a Koran, a fanatical Bosnian (26) dragged a police officer over 50 meters with his vehicle. While the Freedom Party is calling for alleged Islamists to be deported, leftists continue to be outraged about the latest map of Islam.
It was a Wild West scene with an oriental touch that took place in the heart of Linz. The problem of a still escalating speeding scene, the protagonists of which more and more often have a migration background, apparently combined with the offended religious feelings of a radically-minded man. According to the media, he was sitting behind the wheel in “strictly religious” clothing and had already rammed several police cars at extremely high speeds.
The native Bosnian is said to have lived in Saudi Arabia for four years and studied religion there. Because the motive is unclear, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is investigating the incident. The worrying thing is, of course, the open question of whether the man was connected to the Islamist scene in Linz. City Councilor for Security Michael Raml (FPÖ) demanded after the incident that alleged Islamists “consistently have their residence status” withdrawn.
Interior Minister Nehammer (ÖVP) and Justice Minister Zadic (Greens) are also obliged to act. This should not be done through symbolic politics: “By acting, I do not mean replacing the term ‘political Islam’ with ‘religiously motivated extremism,’ but tackling and deporting those who refuse to integrate and criminals from Austria,” said Raml firmly.
“Fight against political Islam” only symbolic politics of the ÖVP
Speaking of Nehammer and Islamists: after the bloody terrorist attack by an Islamist in Vienna last November, the Upper Austrian member of the National Council Susanne Fürst (FPÖ) put a parliamentary question to the Minister of the Interior, asking how many Islamists there were in Linz overall.
But the latter once again put forward “essential external and internal security interests,” and failed to provide any specific information. And that despite the fact that there were arrests in Linz after the attack. It wasn’t the only time that Nehammer evaded unpleasant questions about the Vienna terror …
The “Documentation Center for Political Islam,” which was funded by Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP) with a budget of 500,000 euros, could have shed a little more light into the darkness. However, even after the presentation of the “Islam map,” some questions remained unanswered. Because this is an outdated and incomplete map.
In the case of many problematic institutions, their links to radical Islamists are not even noted.
“Of course” it is working on an independent map of Islam
In order to make these visible, the Graz “Freilich-Magazin” wants to develop its own, independent – and above all more complete – Islam map, in cooperation with “Islamist hunter” Irfan Peci and other renowned Islamism experts. In the process, those responsible are also appealing to readers to support them in the implementation, as the “Tagesstimme,” which belongs to the “Freilich” media house, reported on Friday. Especially in the case of problematic institutions, the necessary information would be missing.
Peci also justified this move with the fact that the ÖVP would be careful not to “expose itself again to massive pressure from the left and Muslims” after the uproar over the map. The Muslim Youth Austria (MJÖ) wants to sue the project; Minister Raab and Islam researcher Ednan Aslan received wild threats from relevant circles. Left-wing politicians and journalists got excited on social media and vehemently demanded that the project be taken offline immediately.
Activists warned against radical mosque associations
This actually happened – at least with regard to the search function – from Wednesday to Thursday night. The official reason is now that the threats forced people to change IT providers. The original announcement on the homepage left the interpretation open that rather a right-wing activist group should be given the blame for the break on the page.
Because the night before, so far unknown persons had hung up yellow warning signs near five institutions in Vienna known to be Islamist associations, with the inscription “Attention: Political Islam in your neighborhood.” According to the information available so far, the action was limited exclusively to institutions actually suspected of radicalism. One day later, similar actions followed in St. Pölten and Linz.
In our provincial capital, the right-wing activists targeted three radical mosques with their protest action, with which, according to their own statements, they want to inform the population about the Islamist danger and aim to close down all “Islamist meetings.” One of the institutions is the “Avrasya” association, whose rumored closeness to the “Grey Wolves” once caused Mayor Klaus Luger, who had contacts with the association, to have to explain himself.
Not only the comrades, but also the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) has long been in dire need of explanation in Linz. As the weekly newspaper Wochenblick reported, the city’s Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) recently had no reservations about the ALIF association on the occasion of a “Diversity Week.” This association is said to be close to the radical Islamic “Milli Görüs” movement. The latter information is missing from the incomplete map presented by Raab.
