Austrian Muslims to sue government on ‘Islamic map’ | Islamic Issues of Islamophobia

Austrian Islamist groups are criticizing the government for mapping the location of mosques and Islamic organizations throughout the country.

Austria’s top Muslim group says it wants to file a lawsuit against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government for revealing rival “Islamic maps”, according to Austrian reports.

Muslim Youth Austria has criticized the government for posting a “political political map”, which is known as a place for mosques and Islamic organizations across the country.

“Releasing all the names, operations and addresses of Islamic organizations and organizations that are considered to be Muslim represents a crossroads that has never happened before,” the group said in a statement on Saturday.

Minister of Integration Susanne Raab has launched a page on Thursday, called the National Map of Islam, containing the names and locations of more than 620 Islamic organizations, organizations and officials as well as their possible links abroad.

The Austrian Islamic Religious Organization (IGGOE) has warned against the election of all Muslims living in Austria “as a threat to public order and the rule of law in the country”.

The campaign promotes racism and “puts Muslim citizens at greater risk”, the IGGOE added.

The Austrian chancellor has repeatedly said what he calls “political Islam”.

According to the caretaker prime minister, the map was not intended to arouse suspicion.

His aim was to “deal with political ideology, not religion”, he said.

Reports of anti-Muslim terrorists in Austria have increased since Vienna’s attack last November.

The map has sparked tensions between the Kurz People’s Democratic Party and its ally, the Green Party.

Austrian Green Party spokeswoman Faika El-Nagashi wrote on Twitter on Thursday that no party member had participated in or announced the announcement.

He further added that the project “contradicts the way in which inclusion and negotiation principles should be expressed”.

In a statement posted on Twitter on Saturday, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry stated that “the secretive, racist and anti-Islamic ideology threatens public relations and participation”.

“It is important for the Austrian state to stop fighting against foreigners and Muslims by documenting and following reliable policies,” it said.

The Evangelical Lutheran Bishop of Germany Michael Chalupka also expressed his concern and asked Raab to take the page.