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Austria to introduce law that respects Islamic Sharia and invites imams to preach at public institutions

Apr 4, 2014 7:17 am By Nicolai Sennels

Sebastian KurzVia 10news.dk, translated from German Unzensuriert by Nicolai Sennels:

The Austrian Islam Act (1912) should be amended, on the initiative of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. The renewal of the oldest Islamic Law in Western Europe is to take precedence over Austrian state law. The “Dialogue with Islam” initiative was started by Kurz during his time as Secretary of State for Integration in order to lay the foundation for the new law. This dialogue involves talks with radical Muslims such as the IGGiÖ (Islamic Religious Community in Austria ) about how rights and obligations for Muslims in Austria should be defined in the future. In short, Islamists are invited to participate in writing the law.

Sebastian Kurz claims that this step is taken to counteract interference from abroad, as Imams are to be trained exclusively at Austrian universities, and how Islamic initiatives are funded from abroad will be discussed. The law is also to ensure that Islamic traditions are followed concerning holidays and funerals, and enables Imams to provide spiritual guidance in prisons, hospitals and in the army.

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 7:41 am

    The government is talking to enemies of Austria’s indigenous people over the heads of the people. This is high-handed and unacceptable in a democracy. It is tantamount to changing the constitution of Austria without the consent of the people.

    Austrians should protest and do so right away.

  2. xyz says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 7:54 am

    sharia law will rule over you guys and by the time ur a foot deep into it you will be killed for some hate speech or the other. cant u see the state the world is in cause of this religion “islam”??
    All they want is a finger and they will not only take ur hand but cut off ur right side

  3. duh_swami says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 8:37 am

    Kuffar politicians who entertain such destructive ideas, should be thrown out of office on their ear, or smacked upside the head with a cold dead fish. ‘Stupid kuffar’ is a well earned title, and richly deserved, for these idiots.

    • john spielman says

      Apr 4, 2014 at 11:14 am

      Canada tried to introduce sharia law for domestic cases(divorse, inheritance , marriage disputes) about 10 years ago similar to Jewish courts for the same that exist already. The proviso was that all laws MUST BE consistent and comply with Canadian federal laws and charter freedoms, however sharia law did not even make to Parliment as there was an immediate negative backlash by Canadian muslim WOMEN who knew the real agenda for sharia is to enshrine its misogynistic apartheid values into the justice system and they wanted no part of it in their new countries!

  4. Prinz Eugen says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 10:49 am

    Was a time in the heavily Catholic Austria that a protestant could not be elected to office. That has changed in recent years, but now the “gov’t”( !!! ) is willing to surrender to islam. Such utter ignorant fools — islam does not compromise or co-exist. Islam ONLY requires/demands dominance.

    Guess Austria and nearby nations have forgotten their past history against the moslem crusaders who attacked Vienna and environs often. Turkey should not be in NATO, and definitely not in the EU. their “crusading” zeal through the dark ages plus has been abysmal!

    Oesterreich, erwache!

  5. Larry A. Singleton says

    Apr 4, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    “Sebastian Kurz claims that this step is taken to counteract interference from abroad, as Imams are to be trained exclusively at Austrian universities…”

    And we’ve all seen how brilliantly that’s been working out:

    Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom and The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America by David Horowitz
    Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America by Martin Kramer

    • umbra says

      Apr 5, 2014 at 11:15 am

      The austrian foreign minister is a boy trying to fit into a man’s cloths.

      He is not the full shilling in terms of reality.

  6. gravenimage says

    Apr 5, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    Austria to introduce law that respects Islamic Sharia and invites imams to preach at public institutions
    …………………………………..

    More suicidal madness. That this story comes just a day or two after the one where the pious Muslim desecrated four of Vienna’s churches, including the great St. Stephen’s Cathedral, is especially disturbing.

    More:

    Sebastian Kurz claims that this step is taken to counteract interference from abroad, as Imams are to be trained exclusively at Austrian universities
    …………………………………..

    Uh…right.

    I’d just like to see them enforce this law, given how Mohammedans flout the laws of the “filthy Kuffar”.

    And what will these Imams be taught at Austrian universities? As long as it’s Islam, Austria is still in deep trouble.

    Sebastian Kurz has also called for all Imams in Austria to have an “Austrian background” and to speak German.

    http://www.euro-islam.info/tag/sebastian-kurz/

    Neither of these points, of course, would really make much difference.

    Kurz *does*, at least, appear to have some vague sense that there is a problem with Islam—it’s just that he doesn’t really have any idea what to do about it.

    And this latest about “respecting Sharia”, of course, will not just be pointless, but actually *harmful*. What fools these dhimmis be…

  7. EYESOPEN says

    Apr 6, 2014 at 2:06 am

    What, is Austria looking to Kindergarteners for wisdom in policy on Islam? And here I thought that they had some sense, especially when one brave Austrian MP actually had the cojones to tell off Turkey’s foreign minister last year. Such a shame that they appear to be going backwards.

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/59872

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