Austria isn’t immune to the jihad. About 130 residents
have fought alongside Islamic militants in and near Syria. Most of them are foreign nationals, mainly
from Turkey, Russia and the Balkans.
Forty were actual citizens.
Reuters
reported the following:
The subject is at the
top of the news agenda in the neutral Alpine republic after police arrested
nine people this week who prosecutors said were believed to be on their way to Syria to
join the fighting.
The suspects had mostly come to Austria as young people and got
political asylum that could be revoked should they be convicted of joining a
terrorist organization, officials said.
All nine have been remanded to
investigative custody.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner
said support for radical Islamists was on the rise in Austria and called for
closer European cooperation to address the issue.
"We need to close ranks across Europe
in the fight against terrorism and jihadism," she said, urging a policy of
zero tolerance.
Roughly half a million Muslims live in
Austria, representing about 6 percent of the total population.
That’s about 6% too many.
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