{"id":6184,"date":"2014-10-21T03:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2015-01-09T03:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:10:36","slug":"austria-civil-law-vs-sharia-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/10\/21\/austria-civil-law-vs-sharia-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria: Civil Law vs. Sharia Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/austria-abu-hamza-al-austria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6185\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/austria-abu-hamza-al-austria.jpg\" alt=\"austria abu hamza al austria\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/austria-abu-hamza-al-austria.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/austria-abu-hamza-al-austria-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Austrian government has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the country\u2019s century-old \u201cIslam Law\u201d that governs the legal status of Austria\u2019s Muslim community.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Austria: Civil Law vs. Sharia Law<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a title=\"Austria: Civil Law vs. Sharia Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4798\/austria-sharia-law\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute <\/a>| October 21, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian government has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the country\u2019s century-old \u201cIslam Law\u201d that governs the legal status of Austria\u2019s Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed revisions\u2014which are aimed at cracking down on Islamic extremism in Austria\u2014would regulate the training and hiring of Muslim clerics, prohibit the foreign funding of mosques, and establish an official German-language version of the Koran, among other changes.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the modifications would give Muslims legal parity with other religious groups in Austria. But the leaders of Austria\u2019s Muslim community counter that the contemplated new law amounts to \u201cinstitutionalized Islamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The updated Islam Law (<em>Islamgesetz<\/em>) was presented as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parlament.gv.at\/PAKT\/VHG\/XXV\/ME\/ME_00069\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">draft bill<\/a> to parliament on October 2 and overhauls the current law, which dates back to 1912.<\/p>\n<p>The original law was brought into being to help integrate Muslim soldiers into the Habsburg Army after Austria <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bosnian_crisis\" target=\"_blank\">annexed<\/a> Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1908. The law recognized Islam as a religious community in Austria, and allowed Muslims to practice their religion in accordance with the laws of the state.<\/p>\n<p>After the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed at the end of World War I, the number of Muslims in Austria was reduced to just a few hundred people. After World War II, however, Austria\u2019s Muslim population increased rapidly with the arrival of guest workers from Turkey and the Balkans in the 1960s and refugees from Bosnia in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim population in Austria now exceeds 500,000 (or roughly 6% of the total population), up from an estimated 150,000 (or 2%) in 1990. The Muslim population is expected to reach 800,000 (or 9.5%) by 2030, according to recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/files\/2011\/01\/FutureGlobalMuslimPopulation-WebPDF-Feb10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">estimates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Official statistics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationale.at\/statistik-austria-schon-mehr-auslaender-in-wien-als-oesterreicher\/\" target=\"_blank\">show<\/a> that nearly 60% of the inhabitants of Vienna, the capital and largest city of Austria, are immigrants or foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>The massive demographic and religious shift underway in Austria, traditionally a Roman Catholic country, appears irreversible. In Vienna, for example, Muslim students now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4229\/austria-muslims-vienna-schools\" target=\"_blank\">outnumber<\/a> Catholic students at middle and secondary schools. Muslim students are also on the verge of overtaking Catholics in Viennese elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Austria has emerged as a major base for radical Islam. A June 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmi.gv.at\/cms\/BMI_Verfassungsschutz\/BVT_VSB_2014_V20140613_online.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by the Austrian intelligence agency BVT warned of the \u201cexploding radicalization of the Salafist scene in Austria.\u201d Salafism is an anti-Western ideology that seeks to impose Islamic sharia law in Austria and other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Austria has also emerged as a central <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4651\/austria-jihad\" target=\"_blank\">hub<\/a> for European jihadists seeking to fight in Syria because Austria\u2019s geographic location provides easy access to land routes through the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/oe1.orf.at\/artikel\/369777\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Austrian Public Radio \u00d61-Morgenjournal, the Austrian Minister for Integration and Foreign Affairs, Sebastian Kurz, said the rapid rise of Islam in Austria has rendered the old Islam Law obsolete. A new law is needed, he said, to more clearly stipulate the rights and responsibilities of Muslims living in the country.<\/p>\n<p>From now on, according to Kurz, Muslims residing in Austria will be expected to adhere to Austrian values and to acknowledge the primacy of Austrian law over Islamic Sharia law. In practice, he said, this means that Muslims would be prohibited from citing Islamic law as legal justification for ignoring or disobeying Austrian civil laws. Sharia law has \u201cno place\u201d in Austria, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The new law would regulate at least a dozen separate issues, including relatively non-controversial matters such as Muslim holidays, Muslim cemeteries, Muslim dietary practices and the activities of Muslim clergy in hospitals, prisons and the army.<\/p>\n<p>More significantly, however, the bill seeks to limit the religious and political influence of foreign governments within the Austrian Muslim community by prohibiting foreign countries\u2014presumably Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states\u2014from financing Islamic centers and mosques in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also seeks to prevent the growth of a parallel Islamic society in Austria by regulating mosques and requiring clerics to be trained exclusively at Austrian universities. The new law would require Muslim groups to terminate the employment of clerics who have criminal records or who are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions\u2014including an employment ban for foreign clerics in Austria\u2014would apply especially to Turkey: 65 of the 300 Muslim clerics working in Austria are Turkish civil servants whose salaries are being paid for by the Turkish government\u2019s Religious Affairs Directorate, the <em>Diyanet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims leaders in Austria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/politik\/ausland\/europa\/oesterreich-es-gilt-das-gesetz-nicht-die-scharia-13188059.html\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a> that in the absence of foreign funding, many mosques in Austria would have to be \u201cclosed immediately\u201d because they are not financially viable apart from outside support. Moreover, they argue, the prohibition of foreign funding violates the constitution because the same restrictions are not being applied to Christians or Jews.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen, however, whether the foreign funding restrictions will apply to the Vienna-based King Abdullah International Center for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Dialogue. Critics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/3469\/saudi-center-vienna\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a> the multi-million-dollar institution, which was inaugurated in November 2012, is an effort by Saudi Arabia to establish a permanent \u201cpropaganda center\u201d in central Europe from which to spread the anti-Western <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wahhabi_movement\" target=\"_blank\">Wahhabi<\/a> sect of Islam throughout the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The new Islam Law also requires the Austrian Muslim community to agree on a standardized German-language translation of the Koran, the Hadiths and other Islamic religious texts. The government has argued that an official version of the texts would prevent their \u201cmisinterpretation\u201d by Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are countless translations, countless interpretations,\u201d Kurz <a href=\"http:\/\/oe1.orf.at\/artikel\/387436\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> public radio \u00d61. \u201cWe will be pushing for this vigorously. It is also in the interest of the Muslim community that words are correctly interpreted and reproduced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Muslim leaders say it would be next to impossible for Sunnis, Shiites and Alawites to agree on a \u201ccorrect\u201d translation of the Koran. In any event, they say, the state cannot outlaw alternative translations.<\/p>\n<p>A group called Muslim Youth of Austria (MJ\u00d6) has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vienna.at\/islamgesetz-muslimische-jugend-fordert-ueberarbeitung-von-entwurf\/4109714\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> the new Islam Law as an \u201cintolerable legal scandal\u201d that seeks to \u201cplace the broad mainstream of Muslims either under state supervision, or to split them into weak and therefore meaningless groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Austrian Islamic Community (IGGi\u00d6), Fuat Sanac, <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/2673091\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> the new law is \u201cna\u00efve\u201d and treats Muslims as \u201csecond-class\u201d citizens: \u201cWe do not agree with the draft Islam Law. It was presented to the public without our approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanac has vowed to file an appeal with Austria\u2019s constitutional court to stop the new law, which he says \u201crisks humiliating\u201d the country\u2019s Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p>Kurz <a href=\"http:\/\/diepresse.com\/home\/politik\/innenpolitik\/3879789\/Islamgesetz_Aus-fur-auslaendische-Imame\" target=\"_blank\">maintains<\/a> that the primary purpose of the new Islam Law is to establish the \u201cprimacy of national law over religious law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government hopes the new law will be approved by Parliament in November and will enter into force sometime in 2015. But Muslim opposition to the initiative may mean that the 1912 version of the law will remain unchanged for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soerenkern.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Soeren Kern<\/em><\/a><em> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gatestone Institute<\/em><\/a><em>. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group. 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