Jan 2, 2020 – SWISSINFO.CH VIENNA (Reuters) – A deal between Austria’s conservatives and Greens to form a governing coalition includes banning headscarves in school until the age of 14 and preventive custody for potentially dangerous immigrants, several Austrian media reported on Thursday. The measures are part of what […]
Austrian Interior Ministry’s security agency closes the chapter of cooperating with the country’s Islamic Religious Community, adopting the right-wing agenda of criminalizing Muslim actors Dr. Farid Hafez | 21.08.2019 – […]
ANADOLU AGENCY INNSBRUCK 24.07.2019 Telfs is a small town in Austria’s Innsbruck, in the state of Tyrol. It stands out with its green landscape, peaceful atmosphere and touristic activities. […]
Jun 12, 2019 – VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s government said on Wednesday it plans to shut a Saudi-funded centre for religious dialogue in Vienna after parliament urged it to try […]
With yet another European country outlawing headscarves, a recent study shows its actual impact. Source: Washington Post By Aala Abdelgadir and On May 16, Austria’s parliament approved a law banning […]
By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna 24 May 2019 The video, from, 2017, was recorded in a villa in Ibiza It was a warm, summer night at a luxury villa […]
FARID HAFEZ @ferithafez Published 17.05.2019 Many people reacted with outrage when the current Austrian Minister of Interior Herbert Kickl, who is a staunch right-wing ideologue, proclaimed that “the law has […]
May 16, 2019 – 17:56 FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators covering their faces protest in Vienna against alleged anti-Muslim discrimination in Austria, October 1, 2017. Banners read “Stop the agitation against Muslims” […]
ANARCHISTS IN SWITZERLAND: ‘Empress stabbed in the heart’ Source: Swiss Info By Regula Bochsler In 1898, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria was murdered in Geneva. The popular “Sisi” was stabbed […]
FMT Reporters – January 22, 2019 Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in a joint press conference in Vienna. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian […]
With his hijab ban, Sebastian Kurz is adopting the far right’s anti-Muslim agenda, just with a liberal façade. Will he get the cover he seeks from the Jewish community? Will […]
Source: The Economist WHEN it comes to basic principles of free speech and freedom of belief, do the nations of Europe form a coherent bloc, determined to apply those principles […]
Source: Washington Post By Associated Press BERLIN — The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech. The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled Thursday that Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Two women have tied the knot in Austria’s first same-sex marriage, months after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled to legalize it. Vienna’s city […]
Multicultural Australia rejects “Muslim ban” Source: The Australian Muslim Times By Zia Ahmad, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Muslim Times AMUST and is based in Sydney. Senator Fraser […]
Source: Politico By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN Austria’s scheduling of an EU leaders’ summit to begin on Yom Kippur — the Jewish Day of Atonement — is raising questions of cultural […]
Gottfried Waldhäusl, from far right Freedom Party, claims plan ‘from point of view of animal welfare’ Tom Embury-Dennis @tomemburyd Source: The Independent Online Both Jewish kosher and Islamic halal rituals require the […]
Source: BBC News The Austrian ambassador to Israel has downplayed reports of a plan by an Austrian state to require Jews and Muslims to register before they can buy kosher […]
AFP news.austria@thelocal.com @thelocalaustria 1 July 2018 immigrationasylumkurz Sylvia Hochstoeger, co-CEO of a roofing company that employs an Afghan refugee as an apprentice, is fighting against an “absurd” situation. Photo: ALEX HALADA / AFP In a small town in northern Austria, Sylvia Hochstoeger never imagined she would become the figurehead for […]
