Austria to Ban Political Islam in Bid to Confront Muslim Brotherhood
The Austrian government has announced plans to ban "political Islam" and potentially prohibit groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood from operating in the country.
... Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker said that his government plans to introduce a constitutional law to ban political Islam, saying, "If religion is used politically, we must oppose it with all severity."
"Let me be clear: I do not want our children and grandchildren to grow up in an Islamic State," Stocker added on social media...
The move was supported by Integration Minister Claudia Bauer, who vowed to fight political Islam in Austria and throughout Europe "with all means possible, because radical Islam* is the greatest danger of our time, for our Western democracy, for the freedom of girls and women and for everyone who wants to live their religion peacefully and freely."...
Austria's Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has specifically pointed to the Muslim Brotherhood as an example of political Islam, which it describes as efforts to inculcate Muslim practices in social and political structures with the long-term aim of establishing Sharia law or a Caliphate throughout the West...
A report last year from French intelligence found that the Muslim Brotherhood was engaged in a decades-long "Western conquest strategy" stemming back to the 1950s.
The report claimed that the group had designed a "matrix of political Islamism adapted to be established" in Western nations, primarily through the infiltration of government and other societally significant institutions...
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* There is no radical Islam. There is just Political Islam.
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