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streamofthesky posted...

1. It said Jews and Muslims had to register. Period.

Again, this comes back to restricting sale of the meat TO those groups only:
"The law provides that having such meat is only for those who show they belong to a religious community and need it, the cabinet minister in the state of Lower Austria told the paper."

streamofthesky posted...

2. That party is in power in southern Austria. They aren't just some fringe whackos that get 3% of the vote and never get into elected office.

And the Democrats were in power back when people were accusing Obama of wanting to set up death panels. The fact remains that it was, like most things in politics, a hyperbolic claim. And, unlike that claim, it was the *party itself* pushing those ideas rather than just a single cabinet member.
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