The Islamization of Vienna Schools

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In March, a Vienna primary school announced mandatory Ramadan celebrations for all students organized by an Islamic religious teacher. Parents were warned that absences would be closely scrutinized and children who did not participate were gated off. A father complained that there had been no Christmas party and that many of the children did not even speak German.

In another school, children were made to sing Ramadan songs proclaiming the supremacy of Islam and its ‘god’, leading one girl to come home and ask her parents if Allah was really god.

“If we wanted our child to celebrate Ramadan, we’d be living in Arabia, not Austria,” a father complained.

But these days, Vienna schools have more Mohammed than Mozart.

On the first day of Ramadan, a third of students in one school did not show up while other schools simply suspended classes. “Over the years, I have observed that the attitudes of students in the classroom are increasingly influenced by a particular religion. As a result, more and more children are converting to Islam. In the coming years, the number of students absent during Eid al-Fitr will likely continue to increase.” a principal warned.

Austria’s moderate liberal NEOS party recently released numbers showing that Muslims make up 41% of students in Vienna schools up from 39% last year. Less than 35% are Christian giving Muslims a majority. These numbers are expected to continue rising rapidly.

Vienna’s middle schools are nearly 50% Muslim with twice as many Muslims as Austria’s traditional Catholic majority showing the devastating effects of mass migration on the capital.

Previous statistics showed that 3 out of 4 middle school students don’t speak German at home while in Vienna elementary schools, 63% of students don’t speak German at home.

And there are signs that Islamic indoctrination is spreading through Vienna’s schools.

NEOS’s solution is to teach students about democracy. “Our common faith is democracy!” the party proclaims. But democracy just means Austrians rapidly becoming a minority population in a Muslim ‘democracy’ run by bloc votes and whose legislative and educational systems are based on Islamic law. The way that it is in nearly every Muslim country.

In the 1980s, there were over 6 million Catholics in Austria making up 84% of the population. Last year the number of Catholics fell around 2% to 4.6 million or around 50%. The year before there had been 39,488 baptisms, in a country where 77,605 children were born, and 50,900 church funerals. The number of Protestants similarly fell off and Austria’s Christian population rests on its rising number of Orthodox Christians migrating from Eastern Europe.

(Austria’s native population probably declined into minority status some years ago and in Vienna most of the population consists of immigrants from either Eastern Europe or Turkey.)

Some 40% of Vienna’s less than 2 million population is already foreign born. And a city of 2 million with a school system of 112,600 students has a vanishingly small ratio of 5% making it all too easy for even a limited migration population with high birth rates to quickly take it over.

Rather than resisting these demographic trends, NEOS hopes to convert the emerging Muslim population to liberalism. “If we prioritize faith and heritage over the rule of law and the future, we will fail as a society! If we prioritize the law and our values ​​over prayer books and religion, it won’t matter what religious beliefs one has,” it contends.

But in nearly every Muslim country, Islamic law is the source of legislation. Prioritizing secular law over religious law is a liberal value. Expecting Muslims to value Austrian law over the Koran would require a secularization process that is contrary to the trends in every Muslim country and population in the world. If NEOS wants to tackle that trend, it’s going to need to come up with a better plan than the same tired vows to achieve integration by teaching about democracy.

NEOS is boasting of its plans to at least teach German to the Muslim migrant population. Its Mission German program aims to ensure that in Vienna “every child masters our language” rather than recognizing that schools filled with children who don’t speak German represent a larger demographic crisis rather than an opportunity to deploy more language courses

Language is not the problem. It’s a symptom. The vast majority of Austria’s Muslim population defines itself as fairly religious. The primacy of democracy or secular law over religious law is a violation of Islam’s deepest mission and beliefs which require it to impose Islamic law on all..

“Faith is a private matter,” NEOS claims. Austria’s Muslim population does not agree.

“Vienna is colorful and diverse,” Hakan Gördü, the head of the Social Austria of the Future party, linked to Erdogan’s brutal Islamist dictatorship in Turkey, demanded. “At the end of Ramadan, Muslims around the world celebrate Ramadan. We demand that this important holiday finally be officially recognized. Muslim holidays are as much a part of Vienna as Christmas or Easter.”

And Vienna’s political establishment along with its schools are more than happy to go along.

“At the end of Ramadan, I wish all Muslims breaking their fast today a blessed festival! Vienna stands for diversity, respect, and good coexistence,” Mayor Michael Ludwig announced. “Eid Mubarak! Happy Eid!”

Vienna is not becoming more diverse, but less diverse. The trend of that ‘diversity’ only goes one way. And If it continues, the old Ottoman invasion of the Gates of Vienna will have finally been completed. What the Turks could not do with soldiers, they did with mass migration.