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Operation Luxor

How Prominent Muslims in Austria Were Painted as Enemies of the State
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Europe

Behind a Smear Campaign

In 2020, my home was raided by the Austrian police as part of Operation Luxor, a crackdown on Muslim civil society activists. Only later would I discover what lay behind the branding of prominent Muslim voices as Islamist enemies of the state and made my life in Austria impossible.