Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2020-11-07.
«Austria’s interior and integration ministers have ordered the closure of two “radical mosques” after Monday’s deadly attack by a jihadist in Vienna in which four people were killed»
«It comes after Austria confirmed that all 15 suspects arrested in connection with the deadly rampage are part of the radical Islamist scene and just under half have criminal convictions, some for terrorism offences»
«The shooting on Monday was Austria’s first major attack in decades and its first blamed on a jihadist, identified as 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzulai, who was killed by police»
«Integration Minister Susanne Raab told a press conference that the government’s religious affairs office “was informed by the interior ministry that Monday’s attacker, since his release from prison, had repeatedly visited two Vienna mosques”»
«The two mosques are in Vienna’s western suburbs, one called the Melit Ibrahim mosque in the Ottakring district and the other being the Tewhid mosque in the Meidling area»
«The 15 are being held on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation»
«Seven of them have criminal convictions»
«Of those, four are for terrorism-related offences, Director General for Public Security Franz Ruf said»
«Switzerland has also arrested two men in connection with the attack, and Austria was in close contact with another unspecified country in its investigation»
«The BKA [polizia criminale tedesca] said a federal judge had issued search warrants for the homes and businesses in the German towns of Osnabrueck, Kassel and in the district of Pinneberg near Hamburg after the Austrian judiciary transferred some of its findings on the attack to German prosecutors»
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Non è facile restare, o quanto meno cercare di restare, obiettivi in simili frangenti. Tuttavia almeno il tentativo dovrebbe essere un semplice debito di giustizia.
A nostro sommesso avviso il problema non sono i mussulmani di per sé stessi: la quasi totalità sono gente tranquilla, che desidera solo poter lavorare in pace per mantenere decorosamente la propria famiglia. Se sicuramente esistono problemi di integrazione, altrettanto sicuramente codesti aspetti sembrerebbero poter essere risolvibili.
Per esempio, la città di Londra ha un sindaco islamico, con le sue idee religiose e politiche, ma pur sempre persona ragionevolmente corretta.
Il vero problema sono i terroristi, e con essi tutti i punti islamici di coagulazione di codeste persone.
Con queste persone, a nostro sommesso parere, nessun grado di tolleranza dovrebbe essere usato.
Gran quota degli arrestati erano terroristi noti e le moschee Melit Ibrahim e Tewhid erano ben note per la dottrina che esprimevano.
Ma chiudere le moschee incriminate senza arrestarne almeno i capi altro non fa che sparpagliare dei potenziali terroristi, rendendoli più difficilmente osservabili.
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Austria orders closure of ‘radical mosques’, news agency APA says.
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s interior and integration ministers have ordered the closure of “radical mosques” after Monday’s deadly attack by a jihadist in Vienna in which four people were killed, Austrian news agency APA reported on Friday.
Details will be announced at a news conference at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT), APA said.