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Is Austria Unravelling? Report Shows Spike in Hate Crime, Daesh Fighters

© AP Photo / Ronald ZakDemonstrators are stopped by police as they gather to protest against the ball at the Hofburg palace hosted by Austria's right-wing Freedom Party
Demonstrators are stopped by police as they gather to protest against the ball at the Hofburg palace hosted by Austria's right-wing Freedom Party - Sputnik International
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A clash of civilizations is underway in Vienna in which the majestic European country is ravaged by an influx of refugees, an increase in homegrown terrorist sympathizers, and far-right bigotry.

On Monday, the Austrian interior ministry issued a report finding that xenophobic and racist crimes committed by far-right sympathizers have spiked by more than 50% in the past year with Muslims and Jews the primary targets.

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Ministry reports state that 1,156 such crimes were registered in 2015 compared to 750 in 2014, an increase of 54%. In contrast, the report found that politically motivated crimes committed by left-wing extremists dropped sharply, from 371 in 2014 to 186 in 2015.

The report also found that 259 individuals had traveled either to Syria or to Iraq in 2015, to aid Daesh extremists, or expressed the intention to do so before being apprehended by authorities.

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Of the 259 individuals, the report found that 75 Daesh militants returned to Austria in 2015 and 43 others are believed to have been killed in the region.

The reported figures on right wing crimes, as well as terrorist activity within the region, includes only those instances that were officially reported.

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