{"id":37883,"date":"2019-03-29T03:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37883"},"modified":"2019-03-29T03:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T03:23:57","slug":"will-austrias-government-really-crack-down-on-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37883","title":{"rendered":"Will Austria&#8217;s government really crack down on the far right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82.8933566434\">\n<p>The Austrian government says it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/zealand-attack-suspect-donated-money-austria-190327120423080.html\">will not tolerate<\/a> &#8220;dangerous ideologies&#8221; and that it&#8217;s now considering disbanding the far-right Identitarian Movement and investigating whether it is a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement on Wednesday came after it was revealed that the movement&#8217;s leader, Martin Sellner, received nearly $1,700 from the man accused of perpetrating two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/zealand-attack.html\">\u00a0mosque attacks<\/a> in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Sellner has denied any ties to the suspected attacker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/austria.html\">Austria<\/a>&#8216;s far-right Freedom Party, which entered government in December 2017, has distanced himself from the Identitarians, while Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/sebastian-kurz-europe-youngest-leader-171016124645623.html\">Sebastian Kurz<\/a> says radical ideologies are not welcome in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone convinced?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter: <\/strong>Hazem Sika<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bonvalot &#8211; Author and export on the far right in Austria<\/p>\n<p>Emily Gorcenski &#8211; Researcher and advisory board member to the Prosecution Project, a research lab studying political violence<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Miller-Idriss &#8211; Professor of sociology at the American University and author of, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far-Right Youth Culture in Germany<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian government says it will not tolerate &#8220;dangerous ideologies&#8221; and that it&#8217;s now considering disbanding the far-right Identitarian Movement and investigating whether it is a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; organisation. The announcement on Wednesday came after it was revealed that the movement&#8217;s leader, Martin Sellner, received nearly $1,700 from the man accused of perpetrating two\u00a0mosque attacks in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}