{"id":364585,"date":"2018-06-08T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/austria-to-expel-up-to-60-imams-close-7-mosques\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T16:26:59","slug":"austria-to-expel-up-to-60-imams-close-7-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/austria-to-expel-up-to-60-imams-close-7-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria to Expel up to 60 Imams, Close 7 Mosques"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Austria said Friday it could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and would shut down seven mosques as part of a crackdown on &#8220;political Islam&#8221;, triggering impotent fury in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The circle of people possibly affected by these measures &#8211; the pool that we&#8217;re talking about &#8211; comprises around 60 imams,&#8221; said Interior Minister Herbert Kickl of the nationalist Freedom Party (FPOe), the junior partner in Austria&#8217;s coalition government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Austria to expel up to 60 foreign-funded imams and shut seven mosques <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RusVzDt72y\">https:\/\/t.co\/RusVzDt72y<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendEvropa\/status\/1005026657726550016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kickl was referring to imams with alleged links to the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations (ATIB) organisation, a branch of Turkey&#8217;s religious affairs agency Diyanet.<\/p>\n<p>The interior minister added that the government suspects them of contravening a ban on foreign funding of religious office holders.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said 40 of them had an active application for extending their residency and that a number of these had already been referred to immigration authorities, where a process for expelling them was underway.<\/p>\n<p>Once family members were taken into account, a total of 150 people risked losing their right to residence, Kickl told a Vienna press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Ankara denounced the move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Austria&#8217;s decision to close down seven mosques and deport imams with a lame excuse is a reflection of the anti-Islam, racist and discriminatory populist wave in this country&#8221;, presidential&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/austria-to-expel-up-to-60-imams-close-7-mosques\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria said Friday it could expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and would shut down seven mosques as part of a crackdown on &#8220;political Islam&#8221;, triggering impotent fury in Ankara. &#8220;The circle of people possibly affected by these measures &#8211; the pool that we&#8217;re talking about &#8211; comprises around 60 imams,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}