The Muslim community in the city of Linz, Austria, is outraged after the Red Cross refused to accept a blood donation by Muslims. The Islamic IRG foundation (Austria-based charity group for Austrian Muslims) had been campaigning for Muslims to donate blood, but the Red Cross rejected the blood because it does not contain antibodies against Hepatitis B as is the case with citizens from South-West Europe, according to a medical statement from the Director of the Red Cross in Linz, Christian Gabriel. However, the IRG refuted this claim, saying that a lot of the blood donors were born and raised in Austria and had donated their blood in several blood campaigns initiated by the Austrian army before (Author not mentioned, al-Watan, Feb. 13, p. 12). Read original text in Arabic.