<div>Austria today said it will expel up to 60 Turkish-funded imams and their families and shut down some mosques as part of a crackdown on political Islam.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said in Vienna that 150 people risk losing their right to residence and seven mosques will also be shut.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The move comes after an investigation by the religious affairs authority into images which emerged in April of children in a Turkish-backed mosque playing dead and reenacting the World War I battle of Gallipoli.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Turkish president's office called Austria's move racist and discriminatory.</div>
News On AIR | June 8, 2018 7:53 PM
Austria to expel up to 60 imams, shut 7 mosques