🇦🇹 Austria moves toward a constitutional ban on “political Islam”
Austria is attempting to ban “political Islam,” with Chancellor Christian Stocker arguing that religion cannot be used to pursue political goals that challenge the democratic state.
Integration Minister Claudia Bauer is drafting the proposal, which is expected to include broader changes to laws governing religious groups and associations.
Bauer called political Islam the “greatest danger of our time,” saying its organizations seek to place their ideology above the democratic rule of law, reshape society, and restrict the freedom of women and girls.
The wider crackdown also includes Austria’s new Islamic headscarf ban for girls under 14 in schools, as well as scrutiny of deradicalization programs.
The Justice Ministry has ended cooperation with the Derad deradicalization organization after an assessment identified people associated with it as having links to the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered the largest Islamist group in the world, has been spreading Islamism and violence across the West, Africa, and the Middle East for decades and is banned in numerous countries, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and several other Arab and Middle Eastern countries.



