Liga Kultur (LK) (Cultural League)

Liga Kul­tur (LK) (Cul­tur­al League) is an Aus­tri­an Islam­ic cul­tur­al asso­ci­a­tion found­ed in 1998 with branch­es in Vien­na and Graz. It emerged from ear­li­er net­works such as the Islamis­che Union in Öster­re­ich and was estab­lished to pro­mote cul­tur­al exchange and inte­gra­tion. Aus­tri­an doc­u­men­ta­tion cen­ters iden­ti­fy LK as a found­ing mem­ber of the Fed­er­a­tion of Islam­ic Orga­ni­za­tions in Europe (FIOE)—an umbrel­la struc­ture wide­ly viewed by schol­ars and intel­li­gence agen­cies as part of the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s transna­tion­al net­work. Reports note that LK lead­er­ship has over­lapped with Broth­er­hood-linked fig­ures and that its con­tact details appeared in FIOE inter­nal doc­u­ments. Sev­er­al analy­ses describe LK as one of the Brotherhood’s pri­ma­ry affil­i­ates in Aus­tria, though the orga­ni­za­tion presents itself pub­licly as a cul­tur­al bridge-builder.

References

• The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Aus­tria (Vidi­no, GWU)
• Der Liga Kul­tur-Vere­in in Öster­re­ich (Doku­men­ta­tion­sstelle Poli­tis­ch­er Islam)
• The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Aus­tria: Reassess­ing the Real­i­ty… (Mes­bar Center)
• The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Ger­many and Aus­tria (Altuna, Dokumentationsstelle)
• Mus­lim­brud­er­schaft – Liga Kul­tur (Islam-Land­karte Austria)
• The Fed­er­a­tion of Islam­ic Orga­ni­za­tions in Europe, Octo­ber 1, 2008