Austria to close seven mosques

[hollodero]

(06-08-2018, 11:17 AM)Au165 Wrote: So you can't fear what may happen (as you told me earlier) if you do this and create terrorists, but you can fear that inaction may create terrorists? It's an interesting example of perspective because you can easily say both decisions are based on fear, as are most decisions in life. 

Hm. I don't quite know. I'm not in fear of creating terrorists, I'm in fear of creating parallel societies, a nucleus of people not interacting with the state and not respecting the laws of the land. A terror attack just being the most obvious - and most unlikely - outcome resulting from that.
But sure, it's mainly about an act of symbolism, the direct results won't be quite that spectacular successes. But what do you do if a foreign state opens a recruitment camp for extremists in your country. Which that one mosque I'm talking about certainly was.
And that's not so much about religion for me, it's rather like Cuba opening a recruitment camp for dedicated anti-American Castro followers within US borders. What would you do with these places?

(06-08-2018, 11:17 AM)Au165 Wrote: Also if these places were such blatant locations of extremist indoctrination, why couldn't you walk in and arrest those people doing it? It almost seems your contradictory in that they are disguised, but not so well that you can easily point to the mosques and close them in a large sweeping action.

Arrests are a tough call. You'd have lengthy court actions, a tough task regarding proof, creating some severe questions about free speech and such, create martyrs, further polarize people and probably don't solve any problem. Taking the illegal funding approach is way safer.