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I wipe my ASS on Mohammed's FACE! wrote:
> 40 percent of Austrians have negative attitude towards Muslims,
> study shows
>
> Vienna, May 20. (AP): Four out of 10 Austrians have a negative attitude
> toward Muslims living in the Alpine country, according to an official
> survey released on Friday.
>
> A summary of the report, released by Austria's interior ministry, also
> shows that 37 percent of Austrians have a neutral attitude toward their
> Muslim neighbours and that 23 percent have a positive mind-set.
>
> The report was based on telephone interviews with 2,000 Austrians, 251
> Turks and 253 Bosnians.
>
> Austrian Interior Minister Liese Prokop made the survey public at a
> conference aimed at fostering a dialogue between different religions
> and ethnic groups sponsored by the Austrian Government, which holds the
> rotating European Union presidency.
>
> Prokop angered Islamic leaders and other critics earlier in the week
> when she said 45 percent of Austria's estimated 4,00,000 Muslims were
> not making an effort to integrate themselves into mainstream Austrian
> society and represented a ``ticking time bomb.''
>
> ``We are dealing with a debate about anxiety ... on all sides,'' study
> author Mathias Rohe of the University of Erlangen in Germany said.
> Praising the Austrian Government for commissioning the study, he noted
> it was important to look at the facts and prevent the creation of a
> ``parallel society''.
>
> Prokop said the purpose of the study was to identify the situation of
> Muslims in Austria, to determine how people feel and to prevent
> radicalization.
>
> ``We need the participation of all involved, on our side, that of the
> Austrians, those who were born here, but also on the side of those
> coming to us, those who live here with us,'' she said.
>
> The interviews with Muslims showed that ``traditional conservatives''
> and ``religious conservatives'' showed greater ``distance'' toward
> Austrian society than their more liberal counterparts.
>
> While Muslims tend to see discipline, punctuality and neatness as
> positive traits of their Austrian neighbours, they identified a lack of
> solidarity, poor family life and a lack of sociability as negative
> traits.
>
> The report also showed that about 38 percent of Muslims interviewed,
> would like to see Islam having a bigger influence on Austrian politics
> and society.
>
> While a mere 12 percent of Austrians interviewed, said they had
> frequent contact with Muslims, 80 percent said they had not had bad
> personal experiences. Nearly 90 percent of Austrians distinguish
> between Islam, as a whole and its misuse by extremists, the study said.
>
>
> Underscoring how immigrants have flocked to Austria in recent years,
> the Government statistics agency released a separate report this week
> showing that foreigners account for nearly 11 percent of the nation's
> total population of 8.2 million and close to 19 percent of the capital,
> Vienna.
>
> Immigrants from Serbia-Montenegro account for most foreigners in
> Austria, but the predominantly Roman Catholic country also is the home
> to about 200,000 Turks, Europe's largest Turkish expatriate community
> after Germany and France.
>
> About 3,40,000 Muslims live in Austria and make up 4.2 percent of the
> country's total population, the study said.