These attitudes aren’t “Medieval,” they’re Islamic: these views of Jews, gays, women and non-Muslim come straight from Islamic texts and teachings. So these findings should come as no surprise. The European political and media elites, however, refuse to believe that anyone really believes such things, and so they’re endlessly surprised by survey results such as these.
“Study: Muslim Migrants Have Medieval Attitudes Towards Jews, Gays, Women, and ‘Infidels,’” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, January 18, 2018:
An academic survey of asylum seekers in Graz, Austria, has found increasing religiosity and deeply worrying attitudes towards Jews, gay people, women, and ‘infidels’.
The study was carried out by Ednan Aslan, Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Vienna, on behalf of local authorities responsible for integration, the Kurier reports.
“We wanted to know, who lives with us?” explained Kurt Hohensinner, a city councillor for the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), which currently governs alongside the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
Professor Aslan interviewed a sample of 288 of the approximately 4,000 predominantly Afghan asylum seekers in state care in Graz, and discovered that some 54.5 per cent believe Jewish people do not care about anyone but themselves, with 44.2 per cent saying that Judaism is actively harmful to the world.
“For certain refugees anti-Semitism is a matter of course, which has given the refugee movement a new dimension,” Professor Aslan observed.
More than half – 51.7 per cent – of migrants said they regarded homosexuality as immoral, with 59 per cent voicing opposition to same-sex marriage.
Two-thirds of those surveyed were young men under 30, and Professor Aslan found attitudes which would be considered decidedly misogynistic by Western standards: 44.2 per cent said they would support the use of violence against wives who were disloyal to their husbands.
However, the Muslim women Professor Aslan surveyed appeared no less prone to extremism than their male counterparts, with 62 per cent saying they attached great importance to wearing the Islamic headscarf in public, and 44.3 per cent saying they would refuse to shake hands with a man.
Perhaps most striking was a finding that almost half of the migrants surveyed — 49.8 per cent — said Islam played a bigger role in their lives in Austria than it had in their native countries.
“Mosques have a certain influence on these people,” observed Professor Aslan, with 70 per cent saying they attended prayers every Friday, and 55 per cent saying they believed unbelievers would burn in Hell.
Breitbart London has previously reported concerns that Graz’s mosques have already turned the city into a “stronghold” of radical Islam, with experts saying that 11 out of 20 are under constant surveillance for extremist links.
It is possible that hardline attitudes may be even more prevalent than Professor Aslan’s study suggests, too, with European Union Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove noting that “most fanatics disguise their convictions [through] increasing use of taqiyya” after the Barcelona terror attacks….
Indeed, a Bosnian migrant who ran down and killed four people in Graz in 2015, including a small child, was found to have lied about being a Christian, when he was really a devout Muslim who attended mosque six times a week.
CRUSADER says
One medieval Moslem view is about how Women are to be treated and handled and such.
They want their women to be looking like a Houri….the Jihadists must be enthralled in Europe!
Dominance of Male over Female is overwhelmingly a force in Islam.
All to satisfy the Male lusting ego.
Avi Perry has some thoughts below:
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Where did the Notion of 72 Virgins in Islamic Paradise Come from?
Islamic leaders, seeking to motivate would be suicide bombers, inducing them to commit murder in the name of Allah, have been quoting Islamic sources, which promise 72 Virgins in Paradise to those who kill and are killed in Jihad for Allah.
Many Muslims, especially those exposed to Western culture, are aware of the jokes and the ridicule that the 72 Virgins legend has brought upon them and upon their brother believers. Consequently, they blame the Jews for spreading the myth in an attempt to downgrade the image of the Islamic “freedom fighters”.
Despite the disclaimer by some Muslims, the truth is very clear.
The 72 Virgins notion has its origins in the Qur’an. Although the holy book does not specify the number as 72, it does say that those who fight in the way of Allah and are killed will be given a great reward. It goes on to stipulate that Muslims will be awarded with women in Islamic heaven. It even describes their physical attributes—large eyes (Q 56:22) and big, firm, round “swelling breasts” that are not inclined to sagging (Q 78:33). The Qur’an refers to these virgins as houri, companions of equal age, but the highly-flavored emphasis of their bodily characteristics, including their virginity, gave rise to many hadiths and other Islamic writings.
Hadith 2687 is where the number 72 is mentioned. “The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and 72 houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San’a.”
Qur’anic commentator Al-Suyuti (died 1505) and Orthodox Muslim theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 CE) and Al-Ash’ari (died 935 CE) graphically elaborated sensual pleasures attributed to Muslims in paradise”. Al-Suyuti wrote, “Each time we sleep with a Houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [i.e. Muslim] will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas.”
On the whole, the Qur’an and the hadiths are filled with sexual fantasies that Muslim men are awarded when they reach Islamic heaven. Anas bin Malik, an Islamic scholar, claimed that “The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number… The Prophet was given the strength of thirty (men).” Muhammad (hadith 24) apparently claimed that devout Muslims would be given the sexual strength of 100 persons upon their arrival in Heaven. (This is apparently more than what was attributed to the prophet himself).
The sexual obsession by Muslim men as conveyed by Islamic writings, takes its cue from the founder of the religion. The description depicts him as a sexual predator. Aisha, Muhammad’s wife since she was a nine-year-old girl, described her sexual experiences with the prophet. When she was six years old, he could not have intercourse with her due to her young age. As a consolation prize, he placed his penis between her thighs and massaged it softly. Aisha explained that unlike other believers, the prophet had control over his penis.”
Being consistent with its sexual obsession and predatory practices, the Qur’an permits pedophilia (sura 65:4). It also discusses rape in detail. It lets you know that men can rape female slaves and captives (Q 23:6), even in front of their husbands (Q 4:24). Other writings advise that when having sex with captives, it’s better if you don’t pull out at the end (Sahih Bukhari 3:46:718).
It’s no wonder that 72 Virgins in Paradise are a fundamental piece of Islamic culture. Sex, sex abuse, pedophilia, and enslavement of women take central stage within that religion. Encouraging martyrdom by pointing to sexual rewards in heaven is a natural corollary of that tradition. Although the Qur’an may not be as specific, it nevertheless, offers many clues, which subsequent inscriptions reinforced, interpreted, and broadened.
I have written this article in response to many questions I had been asked by book club members who’d read my book 72 Virgins. In that book, I did not discuss the roots of that evil thinking. Instead, I told a story, a thriller about a group of Jihadi terrorists and their quest for martyrdom.
The story builds on the Jihadists’ motivation for targeting so many innocents and exploiting the victims’ massacre as a stepping-stone to their dream of eternal paradise next to Allah’s throne.
The real question I’ve tried to answer is not whether Jihadists’ plots will ever cease to emerge. There’s no chance of that.
The question the book seeks to answer is—will the next one be stopped before it’s too late?
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Andy says
Pat Condell: Nothing To Do With Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DfTEWPEj-g
Andy says
My name is Paul Weston, and I am a racist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLjpiLvx_CI
gravenimage says
I admire Paul Weston, but this is *not* racism.
Racism is *not* a word we need to “reclaim”.
Andy says
When it comes down to the brass tacks of it, It will be our brave Men and Women in the military-the front line, “Patriots” of any western society country who loves the country more than being an “intellectual” of great debate on Islam who will prevail into keeping the Republic and Freedom of any land.
WILL YOU BE ONE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY IF NEEDS BE!!
First stop being Politically Correct. We have to be able to name the enemy!
That enemy being ISLAM!!
gravenimage says
Andy, the military can only fight to protect us if the civilian authorities know what we need to defend against.
Diane Harvey says
The ugly truth about Islam doesn’t come from the fevered imaginations of the counter-jihad movement. It comes straight from the Qur’an, the hadiths, the Sira.
Yet the left, priding itself on its supposed intellectual curiosity, won’t read these sources.
mortimer says
Indeed. The DOCTRINES of Islam come from the 7th-century, PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS and the CODIFICATION of those doctrines comes from 11th-century DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law.
Since Sharia law is considered PERFECT, COMPLETE and ETERNAL, all modern ideas that compete for the attention of Muslims are SWEPT ASIDE and DISDAINED by Muslims as ‘man-made’.
Professor Aslan’s study has done much good by IGNITING a discussion of the MAINSTREAM ATTITUDES of Muslims … they are PRIMITIVE and UNREFORMABLE!
eduardo odraude says
For any who would like to start, here’s a good place:
http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/
Each verbatim quote from the core Islamic sources also includes reference links that go to the online texts themselves, for verification purposes.
Frank Anderson says
Christians who know about Jews only what is written about them in the New Testament are really missing a lot of good things. Many years ago a Jewish friend invited me to a service, leading to many more services and events, where vast errors and differences between what Jews teach and what Christians teach about Jews can be seen. Jewish teaching is crammed with wisdom and reason. I’m not saying that the 75 or so percent of Jews who are liberals (who refuse to face the truth about islam) are wise. Their minds are closed. But, find out for yourself so that you can understand better please. Jesus, whatever else He was and is, was also an observant Jew.
gravenimage says
Nice post, Frank. I’ve also been to Jewish services.
But I don’t think most Christians have negative views of Jews.
Frank Anderson says
GI, all I knew about Judaism before my visits was what I had been told and read. It was amazing to see what was not told and written before I saw for myself over a number of years. I was amazed by the number of people who visit looking for sacrificial altars, that haven’t existed anywhere in Judaism since the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. To see the thought and wisdom that has been added since Biblical times that glorify ALL God’s Children, ALL who call upon Him as Father, is both stunning and humbling. This is where Jesus came from. Saul/Paul started there too! It’s worth the effort to distinguish between the teachings and the “liberals” who fail for some reason to apply them today. Obviously I am not considered “one of them”.
Carol says
I wonder what the explanation is for so many – 75%? – “refusing to face the truth about Islam”. Could it be because it makes them feel safer?
Frank Anderson says
Carol, I have many treasured Jewish friends mixed in among those who are deliberately blind to islam. My opinion based on more than 20 years of close contact, and reading history most of my life, is that those in the US who refuse to accept Islam’s promises to murder Jews (and other non-muslims) are delusional and do not want to believe what is in front of them. This 75% estimate is from US Jewish publications regarding nationwide attitudes including voting orientation. About half of Germany’s Jews did not get the message that Hitler wanted them dead. Half did and got out the best they could. I knew and admired one of them when I was a teenager.
I frequently mention Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning where he describes his survival of death camps and the psychiatric work he did after WWII to help people recover. Frankl coined the term “delusion of reprieve” for those who could not face the truth and had to use some method to avoid it in order to survive. There is a very good reason for a Jewish Israel that some do not see.
gravenimage says
OK, Frank. Most Christians I know don’t have negative views of Jewish people, though. Certainly, there are some antisemitic views out there, though.
Frank Anderson says
GI, a lot has changed since WWII, Thank God. But please look at the writings showing Jews in a negative and frequently hateful posture in the NT, and some of the translations in the Old. My favorite example is one that interests both of us, and a lot of others Deut 23:2 in the King James translation. Also, please consider the Passion Play at Oberammergau (if I spelled that correctly it is a miracle). I have written before about the serious errors that have misled people for a long time. My uncle, who was otherwise one of the wisest, kindest, best people I have known, passionately hated Jews, which was totally unexplained and completely out of character. I was as in the dark about Judaism until I found out for myself, as I was about islam and its ______ (fill in the blank). We are promised that the truth shall set us free. But I think it was Thomas Jefferson who added, “But first it will make you miserable.” The Jewish teaching that there are no perfect people strongly suggests that expecting perfection is unreasonable and probably a source of disappointment. But I think we should expect those we call friends to promote mutual success and security. I always wish you well.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
People, especially elites, think all religions must be good. But that is not true. Islam is terrible. And some other religions like Animism or Wicca are not good either…but not nearly as bad as Islam!
Jaladhi says
When would these stupid EU understand that this is not “medieval” views of Muslims. This is standard Islam and Muslims – they never change , they want to live in th stone age of seventh century. The sooner they understand this, the sooner they will realize not to admit Muslim refugees any more!!
CRUSADER says
Perhaps EU officials hope that Islam can be reformed, so that what is perceived to be medieval in scope can be cut out of Islam in order that it can truly, as they hope fervently, can be the religion of peace they always thought it was.
By then of course the headway made will be too late, and this religion will make pieces out of them!
Jaladhi says
I am convinced EU is totally stupid but then USA, Canada, Australia, NZ,.. are rapidly moving in that direction!
mortimer says
Not so much ‘stupid’ and unable to learn, but rigidly ‘DOCTRINAIRE’ and ‘BLINKERED’.
Jaladhi says
Same thing, Mortimer!!! LOL…
StellaSaidSo says
EU officials and their globalist handlers understand exactly how primitive and brutal Islam is.
They invited the Islamic hordes in to Europe in order to de-stabilise Europe, to destroy nation states, and to facilitate the imposition of Soviet-style totalitarian control on a subdued populace.
gravenimage says
Stella, I don’t think many of our so-called leaders know much about Islam.
DHazard says
In the end Muslims will defer to Shariah and the Quran instead of any local justice or authority, even when they themselves benefit from it. What this means is that criticizing Shariah or the Quran does not make one an Islamophobe, it makes one a patriot who cherishes Western values. It doesn’t mean that person hates Muslims, it means he hates Islam (or at least finds it destructive to society). It doesn’t mean he’s wrong for his criticism of Islam, it means his detractors and other apologists for Islam are the ones who are wrong. It doesn’t make that person a stupid right winger, it makes him an informed person who rejects organized violence against innocent people. And, believe it or not, criticizing Islam does not make someone a misogynist, it makes the person opposing his freedom of speech someone who supports the devalued status of women under Islam, including their mutilation, rape, spousal abuse and murder.
gravenimage says
Austria: Study shows that Muslim migrants have “Medieval” views of Jews, gays, women and Infidels
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All standard Islam. If we want to return to the dark ages, there is no surer ticket.
Westman says
From the Quran, it appears that one thing is not medieval. You know how Islam claims it invented everything, just like the Russians?
I have found proof that Islam may have invented the Bra. In Quran 78:33-34 It refers to “..full-breasted [companions] of equal age. And a full cup.” 😉
esther aron says
oh gee—-that must have been the image king david wished to convey in his psalm—-
MY CUP RUNNETH OVER
gravenimage says
🙂
mortimer says
Muslims should be quarantined in Muslim-only countries until they can be completely DEPROGRAMMED RIGHT OUT OF ISLAM.
eduardo odraude says
Immigration rule of thumb: Until a majority of Muslim-majority nations allow real freedom of religion, Muslim immigration to non-Muslim nations should stop.
Terry Gain says
I have been saying the same thing for years. Reciprocity.
Carol says
I’d rather spit on their bandwagon than look like I support it. It needs to go, it’s an insult to the human race.
gravenimage says
Why would Muslims deprogram Muslims out of Islam?
Carol says
Anyone have thumbscrews handy?
Carol says
Deprogramming sounds “pie in the sky” if it’s even possible. It’s more realistic to teach them that PREDATION HURTS.
Carol says
Here’s an ex-muslim psychologist giving it a go:
Ex-Muslim psychologist tears into TV host about Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTWbvNh8Ks
I don’t think she got very far.
Mockingjay says
“Study shows that muslim migrants have “Medieval” views of Jews, gays, women and Infidels”.
– It’s only a shame that they first had to import these masses of muslims into the country so they could then be used as subjects in this world-shaking study, isn’t it?
eduardo odraude says
Yes. Why did not the idiots do this sort of study before letting in the millions? Oh, that’s right. Moron Merkel. And so many other useful idiots.
Lydia Church says
Truth and its opposite are both eternal.
Richard says
Thank God Robert Spencer has it absolutely right. The Muslims are not a backward people stuck in the Middle Ages. Rather, they have hung on to their crazy, vicious beliefs that they will lead them to drunken revelries in their great whorehouse in the sky while other religions have weakened to try to please parishioners who do not believe; and thereby they offend God. I had the pleasure of having Persian Jewish friends. Like the Muslims, they have kept the truth of their Jewish religion. It may be a little harder to do, but if their religion is from God,, as they firmly believe it is, why not strive to please God and not offend Him? As Sia said: “They want us to change. Why should we?” I haven’t heard of any Orthodox Jews massacring Christians or Muslims in Los Angeles. Compare this to the Catholic Church, whose present pope is one of militant Islam’s biggest boosters. as this website has shown. I go to Mass with my Bible and check to see whether or not they have removed things from the readings to avoid offending sinners. Usually, they do. That makes the religious service an offense against God, Indeed, they are no longer a part of the Middle Ages, when people actually believed in I what they did. I recall an Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Chabad House?), discussing the so-called difficulties of being Orthodox: “Say you are going to the beach. You check the weather report and the traffic. You get your bathing suit, suntan oil and towels, drive to the beach and try to find parking. But you never think about any of that because it is all part of what you want to do.” The same with pleasing God in a “Medieval” fashion. Whatever happened to “God, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow” .. but not next week.
Sam says
” Study shows that Muslim migrants have “Medieval” views of Jews, gays, women and Infidels”
Really? Why can’t Austrians read one of books, instead of spending, maybe, millions of dollars for the study.
Also the name Ednan Aslan is very much a Turkish name and he is probably a Turkish Muslim. So I don’t have to say more about this “objectively” done survey.
dumbledoresasrmy says
Let’s put it this way – he found that *at least* 54 percent of Afghan Muslim ‘immigrants’ and ‘refugees’ were prepared to admit to views that would – or *should* – horrify the surrounding kuffar.
If he’s a Turkish Muslim, then one must reflect on the current behaviour of Erdogan, and on the sinister figure of Fethullah Gulen, and on the simple fact that a Turkish translation of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is one of the most popular books in Turkey. I *bet* that if *Turkish* Muslims inside Germany and Austria were interviewed by someone who knew what they were about, knew what kinds of questions to ask and how to ask them, similar results would be obtained.
Sam says
I meant Robert’s books in previous comment.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Gotta love big government bureaucracy – nothing’s official until the State spends months and years of time, and millions of euros of tax revenue, writing a bloated report that everybody knew the conclusion of years ago.
But at least an office full of people were employed…..
MFritz says
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED!
All thank you letters must go to:
Angela Merkel
Bundeskanzlerin (Empress of the North Pole)
Reichstag (high over the clouds)
Berlin
PRCS says
From the article:
“However, the Muslim women Professor Aslan surveyed appeared no less prone to extremism than their male counterparts, with 62 per cent saying they attached great importance to wearing the Islamic headscarf in public, and 44.3 per cent saying they would refuse to shake hands with a man.”
As Ednan Aslan is a Professor of Islamic Religious Education, he labels those beliefs “extremism”?
Pull my finger.
dumbledoresasrmy says
From the article – “Professor Aslan interviewed a sample of 288 of the approximately 4,000 predominantly Afghan [sic: Afghan MUSLIM – dda] asylum seekers in state care in Graz, and discovered that some 54.5 per cent believe Jewish people do not care about anyone but themselves, with 44.2 per cent saying that Judaism is actively harmful to the world.”
Typical Mohammedan projection. It is Muslims who do not care about anybody except themselves and Islam that is actively harmful to the world.
gravenimage says
Spot on, DDA.
Peter says
Medieval is a European historical concept. Islam never had a Dark Age, Middle Age, Renaissance, or Enlightenment, though its internal sectarians strifes go back to its earliest days.
Islam, its doctrines, and devout adherents are Pre-Modern. It is also the oldest and most succesful form of Totalitarianism, based not on class or race, but adherence to its ostensible claims of “faith.”
The Austrians are not telling us anything new. Islam is incompatible with Western civilization and cultures. It is in fact predatorily hostile to them, and all non-Islamic ones, too. Thus, the Global Muslim Threat.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Peter.
Prabh108 says
Off-topic:
I pity anyone who has not had privilege of studying Persian poetry. And then there is Sanskrit – sweetest and most perfect of any language – past present or future – we gave the world the vegetarYan ethic. We invented zero. May all enemies of India perish.
Leftards and their idiotic theory of Proto-Indo-European: may Bhagwan cause you all to die a miserable death of an incurable disease.
HANDS OFF BELOVED BHARAT!!!!!! May all enemies of the family unit perish.
I do not fear islam: I loathe and hate slavery creeds – Islam is perfection of all forms of slavery. PANJAB is heart of India. BENGAL is brain of India. KASHMIR is Crown of India. SINDH is body of India. MADRAS is Hindustani sona (gold). Learn geography weasels and avoid unjust wars of looting.
Some areas of India were NEVER CONQUORED by anyone – thanks Pathan.. Afghanistan is shared India-Iran territory. Reject all forms slavery. Islam is ultimate form of slavery. Ultimate destiny of Russia is Hinduism – this is an open secret.
Man is divine. Woman is Shakti. Child is Roop of Paramatma.
Lebensraum for Mother Cow and Father Buffalo – lebensraum for our canines and lebensraum for our Dharmic children. Deport all hippies from India pronto.
Blackwater is xtian conspiracy. One day Bharat will retaliate blow for blow for every condemnable drone attack by kosher-chrislamic-neocolonial mafia. One fine day – o din avai. Why lift a finger – Karm(a) is Divine Justice. Western syllabus is trash. Junk food ‘culture’ is demonic. Yoga rocks!!!!
Excuse any typos.
pr108
gravenimage says
Good grief…