A map that was published by the Austrian state-funded Documentation Center for Political Islam has stirred up major controversy. The @washingtonpost reports:
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A thread 4 some context:
washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/…? fbclid=IwAR3CVNUPQEKc8OmiwjWAPrF1zKlCYkGaF9FgrADXzz-g_y0CZ-Mp5rlubgg
A thread 4 some context:
For me, the Documentation Center from the beginning was nothing but an institutionalization of surveillance and criminalization of the Muslim civil society: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/insti… #PoliticalIslam #IslamMap #Islamophobia #Austria
Major figures in its advisory board have been supporting anti-Muslim legislation for a long time. See the head of the advisory board: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/facts…
Also, Lorenzo Vidino, a major figure in the attempt to criminalize Muslim civil societies, and whose texts were used by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, plays a role: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/facts…
The idea of the Documentation Center was first uttered by the far-right Freedom Party of Austria, when it was in coalition with the Conservatives: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/3174/
But it was his party that implemented it: bridge.georgetown.edu/research/facts…
A key argument was spreading a conspiracy theory about Muslim associations being related to the Muslim Brotherhood: setav.org/en/assets/uplo…
While the court including the famous Austrian Constitutional Court has already repealed several laws and measures like the closure of mosques, politics still fosters the battle against the phantom of political Islam
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