The Islamic backlash continues in Austria after the two main conservative parties won 113 of 183 seats in the Austrian parliament. Nevertheless, the media, like most western countries, seems to still be predominantly liberal.
FILE PHOTO: An Austrian army soldier observes migrants as they wait to cross the border from
Slovenia into Spielfeld in Austria, on February 16, 2016. © Reuters / Leonhard Foeger
Austria’s largest newspaper has received an unexpected response after its columnist claimed that the term “population replacement” was not appropriate for the Alpine land. Hundreds of people said it is the reality they live in.
Austria’s Kronen Zeitung daily has admitted that it received“hundreds” of letters from its readers in just over a week, after they said they felt like foreigners in their own homeland because of mass immigration.
The strong response was provoked by the paper’s columnist, Conny Bischofberger. In an interview with Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, she called the notion of “population replacement” a concept used by “far-right extremists.”
The term, which describes the gradual replacement of a native population by immigrants, is popular among those on the far-right. They use it to portray growing ethnic and religious diversity as a result of some deliberate malicious actions taken by “anti-popular forces.”
Austrian birth-rates for 2016 were established as 1.49 children per woman. That was an increase from 1.39 in 2007. In that year, (2016), 22% of all babies born in Austria were born to Muslim parents. In that year, Muslims made up about 6% of the population of Austria.
So, the point is the non-Muslim population of Austria is shrinking. If you remove the Muslim babies from the 1.49 birth-rate, you are probably close to 1.25 babies per mother. So, every generation there is a decline in non-Muslim Austrians by a whopping 37.5%. Meanwhile, Muslims increase by approximately 3.7 children for every mother (couple), an increase of about 185%.
And that does not include Muslim immigrants still entering Austria.
If we assume a very small number of Muslim immigrants over the next generation, say just enough to cause the Muslim population to double each generation, then you are looking at about 15% Muslim in one generation and 30% in two.
As you will see below, the foreign born population of Austria is already 15%, though certainly not all Muslims, but the foreign born population of Vienna is 30%. So when Austria is 30% Muslim, Vienna will likely be 60% Muslim.
Can you say Sharia Law?
After she was confronted by people asking why they should not use the term, Bischofberger dismissed it in an explanatory piece as a conspiracy theory and a mere “feeling” that “may or may not correspond with the real general demographic developments.” However, she apparently failed to strike a chord with Kronen Zeitung readers, who sought to explain that this was a reality they have been living with for years.
On the streets, on public transport and in the municipal buildings: We feel alien at home.
“We were a happy household until 10 years ago. Then everything collapsed like a house of cards,” one person wrote to the newspaper.
“The mood in our condominium has deteriorated so much that we (65 and 68) are ready to move away to finally be able to live in peace again,” another couple wrote.
“Foreign-language parents with their children do not bother to speak our language… It’s sad, but one doesn’t feel well anymore,” another message read.
In our elementary school, no more excursions are conducted out of consideration for foreign languages, the diet is adapted to religious wishes and the violence of the foreign elementary school boys is frightening.
After receiving hundreds of similar messages, Bischofberger still insisted that, for many people, the notion of “population replacement” came in handy as it allowed them “not to think about the problem behind” mass immigration. However, she also admitted that “it would be cheap to defame all those people, who wrote to the Kronen Zeitung, as xenophobes, racists or far-right extremists.”
Those people were apparently asked “to accept too much migration” and did not receive enough attention from the authorities, the columnist said.
Austria took in one of the largest numbers of asylum seekers per capita during the refugee crisis. Some 150,000 people were accepted by the Alpine land since 2015 – which accounts for over one percent of its total population. Such developments gave rise to widespread anti-immigrant sentiment and brought a conservative coalition to power, which adopted a strict stance on migration.
Foreigners constitute 15.8 percent of the Austrian population, and 29.6 percent in the capital, Vienna, according to a 2018 survey. In February, a former MP from the conservative Austrian People’s Party, Marcus Franz, sparked a heated discussion on social media by saying that Austrian-born girls wear headscarves to prevent assaults from migrants on the streets of Vienna.
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