Tag: Austria

  • Kolam Renang Awam Austria Haramkan Burkini Atas Alasan Kebersihan

    Kolam Renang Awam Austria Haramkan Burkini Atas Alasan Kebersihan

    HAINFELD, AUSTRIA: Pakaian renang untuk wanita Muslimah atau ‘burkini’ kini diharamkan di sebuah kolam renang awam di bandar Hainfeld, Austria.

    ‘Burkini’ dilarang untuk memastikan kolam renang tersebut mematuhi peraturan kebersihan, kata anggota parti berhaluan kanan, Freedom Party (FP) yang juga ahli majlis perbandaran, Peter Terzer.

    Katanya seperti ditukil Russia Today (RT) dan NÖN.at: “Kami amat puas hati dengan peraturan baru ini. Dengan ini, kami boleh memastikan, tidak ada seorang pun yang memakai burkini boleh masuk ke dalam kolam renang itu.”

    Larangan kontroversi tersebut juga mendapat sokongan dari datuk bandar Hainfeld, Albert Pitterle, lapor RT.

    Beliau berkata keputusan itu tidak sepatutnya dianggap luar biasa kerana menurutnya, ia sejajar dengan peraturan kolam renang yang wujud sejak berdekad-dekad lamanya.

    Menurut RT, bulan lalu, sebuah lagi kolam renang awam di bandar Neutraubling di Jerman turut mengharamkan wanita daripada memakai burkini.

    Ini setelah seorang pengunjung wanita membuat aduan tentang seorang wanita yang memakai burkini di kolam renang tersebut.

    Datuk bandar Neutraubling, Heinz Kiechle, dilaporkan tidak senang hati dengan pemakaian burkini, yang katanya “bertentangan dengan usaha perpaduan dan mengiktiraf antara satu sama lain yang kerap dibincangkan di banyak bandar.”

    Selain itu, lapor RT, anggota parti FP di Austria, Encik Terzer, juga menggesa agar keselamatan lebih ketat dilaksanakan di kolam renang itu.

    Beliau merujuk kepada laporan-laporan yang mendakwa beberapa wanita didakwa diserang secara seksual oleh pendatang asing di kolam-kolam renang di Austria, yang menyebabkan beberapa kemudahan riadah mengharamkan semua pelarian lelaki.

    Dalam kes terbaru, pihak berkuasa bandar Mistelbach di Austria mengharamkan secara sementara semua pelarian daripada sebuah kolam renang awam.

    Ini setelah seorang remaja perempuan berusia 13 tahun diganggu secara seksual oleh seorang lelaki muda “berkulit gelap”, yang dipercayai seorang pencari suaka.

    Bahkan menurut RT, pihak berkuasa tempatan memasang papan tanda tertera “hari ini semua pelarian tidak dibenarkan masuk” menyusuli insiden itu.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Austria: Overwhelming Vote Against Same-Sex Marriage

    Austria: Overwhelming Vote Against Same-Sex Marriage

    A motion tabled by a group of MPs, requesting the Federal Government to submit a bill to provide for the possibility of same-sex “marriages”, has been rejected by 110 to 26 votes in the Austrian National Assembly.

    This shows once more that “homo-marriage” is neither inevitable nor unstoppable. Remarkably, however, there was no mention of this unsuccessful initiative, or of the vote against it, in any of the major media outlets in Austria…

     

    Source: https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com

  • Austria Convicts 14 Year Old Boy For Links With ISIS

    Austria Convicts 14 Year Old Boy For Links With ISIS

    14-year-old boy from Austria who downloaded bomb-making plans onto his Playstation games console was sentenced to a two-year jail term on Tuesday after pleading guilty to terrorism charges, a court spokeswoman said.

    As well as researching how to build a bomb, the boy made contact with militants supporting the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, prosecutors said ahead of the trial. Sixteen months of the sentence were suspended.


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    The boy, a Turkish national, will serve what remains of the eight-month custodial term in a juvenile detention centre, the spokeswoman for the regional court in Sankt Poelten said. He had been briefly placed in investigative custody in October on suspicion of terrorism-related activity, before being conditionally released.


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    He was detained for a second time in January. He had faced up to five years in jail for supporting a terrorist organisation and planning an attack. Those charges were based on data found on the boy’s Playstation, including bomb-building plans downloaded from the internet, prosecutors said.

    More than 200 people have left Austria to fight in the Middle East, some 30 of whom have been killed while around 70 have returned, according to the interior ministry. In a separate case, a court in Vienna on Tuesday acquitted a 16-year-old girl accused of preparing to join a jihadi terrorist organisation, according to a court spokeswoman.

     

    Source: www.dnaindia.com

  • Austrian Teenage Girl Who Joined ISIS ‘Killed in Syria’

    Austrian Teenage Girl Who Joined ISIS ‘Killed in Syria’

    One of two young Austrian women who travelled to Syria to fight with Islamic extremists has reportedly been killed just months after arriving in the country.

    Sabina Selimovic, 15, and Samra Kesinovic, 16, both the daughters of immigrant families from Bosnia, left their homes in Vienna in April with the apparent intention of fighting for Syrian rebels.

    They are thought to have travelled to Turkey and then to have crossed the border into Syria, having become radicalised after attending a local mosque in Vienna and reading about jihad on the internet.

    They posted on social media photographs of themselves handling assault weapons and wearing black, full length burkas.

    But Austrian authorities now think one of them – they have so far refused to divulge which one – may have been killed during fighting.

    “The parents of the girl concerned have been informed that there is a risk that their daughter is dead,” said Konrad Kogler, the director-general of public security for Austrian police.

    Alexander Marakovits, a spokesman for the Austrian interior ministry, told The Salzburger News: “We also have this information, but cannot say with absolute certainty that it is true. But the parents have been informed their daughter could be dead.”

    Austrian authorities fear that the two teenagers’ example is inspiring other young, radicalised Muslim women to travel to Syria and volunteer to fight.

    In Germany, meanwhile, an alleged jihadist went on trial on Monday, accused of fighting in Syria for Isil.

    In the first German criminal proceedings involving Isil, Kreshnik Berisha, a 20-year-old born near Frankfurt to a family from Kosovo, has been charged with membership of a foreign terrorist organisation.

    He could face 10 years in prison if convicted by the city’s superior regional court.

    Berisha is believed to have become radicalised when he fell in with a group of Muslim fundamentalists while on a job training programme.

    Federal prosecutors say Berisha travelled to Syria via Turkey in July 2013 with other Islamists planning to join the fight to create an Islamist “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq.

    Soon after his arrival, Berisha allegedly underwent firearms training and was put to work as a medic and a guard.

    In the six months he spent in Syria, he is believed to have fought in at least three battles on the side of the jihadists against President Bashar al-Assad’s troops.

    He returned home for reasons that are unclear to German authorities in Dec 2013 and was arrested at Frankfurt airport.

    Authorities estimate around 400 German nationals have travelled to Iraq and Syria to battle for the militants.

    Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/11098039/Austrian-teenage-girl-jihadist-killed-in-Syria.html