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Is Austria's new law on Islam unfair to Muslims?

The Austrian parliament has passed controversial reforms to the country's century-old law on Islam.

The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams.

It has been widely held up as a model for Europe in dealing with Islam. The new measures, first proposed three years ago, include the protection of religious holidays and training for imams.

But Muslim groups say the ban on foreign funding is unfair as international support is still permitted for the Christian and Jewish faiths. They say the legalisation reflects a widespread mistrust of Muslims and some are planning to contest it in the constitutional court.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31629543
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Australia supports Austria in their new reforms on tackling radical Islam. This will help to encourage integration and assimilation amongst mixed faiths within Austrian communities, and this is vitally important during the current social climate.

Australia also supports the ban on foreign funding as their is no control over how this money is spent and there is evidence of a minority of mosques being used to radicalised Muslims.
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Aph
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The Netherlands agrees in part but belived this should be applied to all religious groups or none.
Financial restrictions are one of the most effective ways to limit the threat of terrorist groups, like the current sanctions applied on Russia. Therefore in order to stop a small number of radical groups spreading hatred through the name of Islam foreign aid has to be curtailed
China believes this should apply to all groups.
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Wellzi
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Original post by Nigel Farage MEP
The Austrian parliament has passed controversial reforms to the country's century-old law on Islam.


The bill, which is partly aimed at tackling Islamist radicalism, gives Muslims more legal security but bans foreign funding for mosques and imams.


It has been widely held up as a model for Europe in dealing with Islam. The new measures, first proposed three years ago, include the protection of religious holidays and training for imams.


But Muslim groups say the ban on foreign funding is unfair as international support is still permitted for the Christian and Jewish faiths. They say the legalisation reflects a widespread mistrust of Muslims and some are planning to contest it in the constitutional court.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31629543

It would only be unfair on muslims if Jews and Christians were running around committing acts of extreme violence and terrorism. It's a good idea, and it prevents things from escalating to the point where hatred of muslim's is the norm in Europe, and we are all aware of what happened last time such hatred was widespread
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McRite
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Botswana doesn't like the idea of restricting on religious freedoms, Islam like all other religions should be held with the same level of respect as other religions.
Austria obviously defends its own policies.
The time for ignoring problems and growing tensions has ended; we need to act. While there is an argument to apply the same laws for all religions, the final saying in the Muslim situation has already been given.

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