When a Muslim was not allowed to buy a house in Austria
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When a Muslim was not allowed to buy a house in Austria

The Hindu  

A few weeks ago, Austria’s conservative-far-right coalition government collapsed after a corruption scandal. Problems, real and imagined According to Johann Zimmermann, the village’s Mayor, the denial of permission was because “the different cultural spheres of the Islamic and the Western worlds share very different values, customs and practices”. The village lies near Vienna, Austria’s capital and a leading metropolis, and also next to the Slovakian border. Mr. Hosna’s family embodied several images that some Austrians have come to consider as those of “enemies”. Back then, Emperor Franz Joseph passed the “Islam Law” that ensured a modicum of self determination to the Muslims living in his Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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