Sebastian Kurz, is demanding fundamentalists be stopped from distributing the Koran

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The Interior Minister, Sebastian Kurz, is demanding fundamentalists be stopped from distributing a strict traditionalist version of the Islamic holy book.

Mr Kurz has claimed the law needs to be changed to allow a crackdown on “Salafist campaigns - an expression of political Islam which we can no longer tolerate.”

After years of lawmakers trying to find a legitimate way to shut the group down amid legal and logistical challenges, they were successful earlier this year in banning one group for good.

Earlier this week neighbouring country Germany launched coordinated raids by anti-terror police on 200 houses belonging to a German Salafist group calling themselves ‘The True Religion’.