Austria to close seven mosques

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(06-08-2018, 10:46 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: So he's closing mosques because they receive foreign funding?

Now that's a real war on religion.

That's the legal justification... not quite the reason. It's questionable if this goes through as planned. Regarding those funded by the turkish Grey Wolves, I'm all in favour of closing them down. These are indeed extremists.

(06-08-2018, 10:50 AM)Au165 Wrote: I always wondered, do they think shutting down the mosques won't just radicalize more people? In their minds you are waging war on their religion, this is literally bulletin board material for all would be terrorists around the world.

That's a common criticism of these measures. Helps the extremists, helps Erdogan. But a country can't just tolerate anything for fear of that.