Islamophobia on the rise in Austria: Report

Nazim Sheikh

World Courant

GENEVA

Austria recorded the very best variety of incidents of Islamophobia final 12 months because it started protecting data in 2015, in line with a report launched Monday.

The Documentation Centre on Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism’s annual report was revealed on its web site.

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It mentioned the variety of reported instances has risen, particularly for the reason that outbreak of the Israel-Hamas struggle on Oct. 7 final 12 months.

Extra instances had been recorded from October to December than within the first 9 months of 2023.

The primary place the place extra instances had been reported from October was faculties, the report mentioned. Within the training sector, anti-Muslim incidents had been reported by mother and father, pupils and academics.

Total, 66.7% of the documented instances occurred on-line and 33.7% offline.

Some 87.8% of the instances documented on-line involved the unfold of hate.

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Muslims had been dehumanized and in comparison with animals in on-line feedback, in line with the report.

Many would additionally attribute sole duty for anti-Semitism to Muslims, it famous.

It mentioned 40.8% of all reported instances concerned unequal remedy and 19.5% concerned insults. The unfold of hatred accounted for 8.9% and a couple of.6% concerned bodily assaults.

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The remaining incidents had been divided into the classes of vandalism (7.5%), police violence (7.3%), harmful threats (3.2%), incitement to hatred (1.8%), bullying and stalking (0.8%) and different (7.7%)

In its report, the documentation middle emphasised that its statistics are a snapshot and that the precise variety of instances is considered considerably larger.

The group sees the figures as a “worrying growth” that’s more and more contributing to a division in society.

The documentation middle due to this fact referred to as for extra consideration to be paid to Islamophobia.



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