The far-right politician outraged Chancellor and Church by brandishing a crucifix ‘in vain’
When H. C. Strache, leader of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) waved a wooden crucifix in front of a rain-soaked yet heated crowd at an anti-mosque demonstration in Vienna’s first district last month, he opened the flood gates of criticism from Austria’s leaders.
Not only are Austria’s top politicians now saying “enough is enough” to a man that Chancellor Faymann has recently dubbed a “hate-preacher,” but the country’s highest-ranking Catholic clerics are also adding their voices to the rising condemnation of Strache’s strategies.
