{"id":4183,"date":"2016-11-30T06:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2025-06-08T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:45:33","slug":"austrian-minister-of-the-interior-christian-kern-wants-to-ban-the-distribution-of-the-koran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2016\/11\/30\/austrian-minister-of-the-interior-christian-kern-wants-to-ban-the-distribution-of-the-koran\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister Kurz Wants To Ban The Distribution Of The Koran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austria \u2013 Following the raids on Salafist organizations in Germany, Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister Sebastian Kurz\u00a0reiterated his wish to ban the distribution of the Koran on the street by Salafist organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Many Islamists, many new Chechen converts and migrants have\u00a0stands in the streets of Austria to distribute copies of the Koran, in a campaign titled \u201cLies\u201d, in English\u00a0\u201cRead\u201d. They are part of the \u201cTrue Religion\u201d group and receive funds from Saudi Arabia. Their actions are now banned in Germany but not in Austria, or in the UK. It is a group of German origin whose creator is the radical Salafist Ibrahim Abu-Nagie.<\/p>\n<p>A distribution campaign of the Quran organized by another group was linked with Mirsad Omerovic, who recruited two girls of 17 and 15, Samra Kesinovic and Sabina Selimovic, who in 2014 joined the Islamic State in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Kurz\u00a0publicly opposes these campaigns of radicalization since this summer and hopes that the distribution of the Koran in the public space to be\u00a0prohibited by the Integration Act. His actions are automatically rejected by the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria \u2013 Following the raids on Salafist organizations in Germany, Austrian Foreign Affairs Minister Sebastian Kurz\u00a0reiterated his wish to ban the distribution of the Koran on the street by Salafist organizations. Many Islamists, many new Chechen converts and migrants have\u00a0stands in the streets of Austria to distribute copies of the Koran, in a campaign titled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}