“Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest  his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”

The Person we see on the right is Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the FPÖ (Liberal Party of Austria). His party is the third strongest party in the Austrian National Assembly, and the only one that can be called growing. The reason I picked this photo showing him is the crucifix in his right hand, which he is waving at the audience during a demonstration against the extension of a Muslim cultural centre in Vienna during the election campaign for the European Parliament in 2009; a clear gesture of denial of tolerance towards other religious groups and (one might think) secularity. This incident marked the climax of an electorial campaign which was based on intolerance and discrimination. By using discriminating vocabulary the FPÖ wants to make clear that the Occident should be ruled by Cristians and not by Muslims. The FPÖ campaign managers came up with a slogan that rhymes and is easy to remember. "Abendland in Christenhand". Unfortunately, it does not translate very well into English).

While the request for an exact definition remains unanswered, I understand that a big part of “adapting to our cultural ways” is not to build mosques, especially none with Minarets. The above-mentioned member of the Austrian postal services stresses this point very much, underlining that “one would go through a lot of trouble trying to build a church in Turkey”. Now every time somebody points this out to me , four figures come to my mind: