(AFP) The Austrian government came under fire Thursday for a new “Islam map” showing the location of mosques and associations around the country, with religious groups saying it would stigmatise Austria’s Muslim population.
Earlier, Integration Minister Susanne Raab unveiled an internet website called the “National Map of Islam” with the names and locations of more than 600 mosques, associations and officials and their possible links abroad.
But the interactive map — compiled in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the Documentation Centre of Political Islam — alarmed many of Austria’s Muslims and the ruling centre-right OeVP party’s coalition partner, the Greens, also distanced itself from it.
