ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT

EUROPEAN ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT 2015
1.048 that have been collected is the post “Only a dead Moslem is a good Moslem”. 61
In a picture, which Strache shares on Facebook, Voltaire is cited with the following
words: “The Koran teaches fear, hate, despite towards others, killing as a legitimate
means to spread and preserve the Satanic teaching. He badmouths women, separates
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people into classes and again and again calls for blood.”
Three elections took place in 2015. During the Upper
Austrian elections, the FPÖ on its posters called against
“Asylum Chaos and Islamisation”.
FPÖ's Campaign Poster 63
The FPÖ eventually became part of the government coalition and since its leader
became vice-governor, he re-emphasised his claim during the elections campaign
that Muslims shall not be welcomed as refugees. 64 Also during the Styria elections,
the FPÖ campaign was openly Islamophobic: their primary slogan was “New apartments
instead of new mosques”. 65 The Styria FPÖ raised a campaign against the construction
of a mosque on www.moscheenstopp.com. For them the “goal is to create
a consciousness of the threat of Islamisation in Styria. Mosques and minarets are the
most visible signs of this development”. 66 Their webpage calls for
“[The] ban of additional mosques with minarets […], stricter surveillance of
61. “Eau de Strache,“ accessed on 28 January, 2016, https://www.eaudestrache.at/
62. “SOS Mitmensch,” Nachgefragt: Was hat es mit Straches Anti-Koran-Zitat auf sich?, 21 December, 2015, accessed
on 28 January, 2016, http://www.sosmitmensch.at/site/home/article/1141.html
63. Photo by Damir A. Saračević.
64. “SOS Mitmensch,” 3 December, 2015, accessed on 28 January, 2016, http://www.sosmitmensch.at/site/home/
article/1140.html
65. Colette M. Schmidt, “FPÖ-Wahlkampf gegen virtuelle Moscheen,“ Der Standard, 25 April, 2015, accessed on
28 January, 2016, http://derstandard.at/2000014938442/FPOe-Wahlkampf-gegen-virtuelle-Moscheen
66. "FPÖ-Steiermark," accessed on 17 November, 2015, www.fpoe-stmk.at/news-detail/artikel/fpoe-steiermarkstopp-dem-moscheenbau/
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