Most Austrians are opposed to the construction of additional mosques and minarets, according to a recent poll, the Austrian Times website reports today (September 6, 2010).
Viennese research agency Karmasin said today that 52 percent of Austrians opposed calls for further mosques and minarets. Thirty-five percent of Austrians questioned backed additional construction, while 13 percent did not want to express their opinion.
There are only three mosques with minarets in Austria, but Austrian Islamic Denomination head Anas Schakfeh's call for a "visible" mosque in all nine provincial capitals started a heated debate recently.
Freedom Party officials reacted furiously to the statement. The party's general secretary, Harald Vilimsky, branded mosques as "hotbeds of radical Islam."
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