The report states that 'returnees from the Middle East with combat experience are difficult to predict in their actions'

Saturday 17 August - An Austrian intelligence report states that radical Islamic terrorism is still the number one security issue in the country, with returning Islamic State fighters a chief concern.

The report, which comes from the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT), states that returnees from the Middle East are difficult to predict in their actions and pose a danger due to possibly having combat experience acquired overseas, Kronen Zeitung reports.

By the end of last year, the BVT estimates that at least 320 individuals from Austria travelled to fight for radical Islamic terror groups in Syria or Iraq, with 107 likely to have been killed and 93 having returned.

The agency is said to be deploying new methods to tackle the threats posed by radical extremism and laid out a new plan in October of last year based on the prevention of terror attacks and deradicalisation of current extremists.

Far-right extremist cases saw a very slight increase from 2017 but are still dramatically down compared to 2016.

The BVT complained that the anti-mass migration Identitarian youth movement in Austria was the largest organisation protesting both mass migration and Islamisation, connecting it with xenophobia.

The city of Graz itself has been labelled a 'stronghold' for Islamic fundamentalism, with a 2017 report claiming that at least 11 of the mosques in the city had preached radical Islamic views.

Editor's comment - No surprises here. The more radical Muslims you have in a Western society, the more unstable and dangerous that society becomes. In response, the authorities blame those who point out the obvious and label them as 'racists' and 'xenophobes'. My advice would be to wear those labels with pride. We are NOT the problem.