Austria shuts down seven mosques in what it says is ‘just the beginning’ of a crackdown

08/29/2019

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has promised a crackdown on radical Islam. On Friday, he announced that his government would shut down seven mosques and could expel dozens of foreign-funded imams from the country. "This is just the beginning," far-right Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said at a news conference Friday.