June 12, 2023

The good people of Austria are shocked — shocked, I say! — to learn that the Muslims they’ve invited to live among and benefit from them hold to various divisive, if not downright hostile, doctrines.

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According to a May 10, 2023 article, “alarm bells are ringing” in Austria following the publication of a report on what Austrian mosques are teaching to Muslims.

One of these teachings, according to the report, is that “Muslim children should only have Muslim friends.”  To underscore the magnitude of this finding, keep in mind that there are now more Muslims than Catholics in Vienna, Linz, and other Upper Austrian regions.

Commenting on this divisive finding that impacts such a large demographic, Manfred Haimbuchner of Austria’s conservative Freedom Party said:

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So Muslims should only be friends with Muslims? This is taught in the Upper Austrian mosques. What does [Austrian president] Van der Bellen say about this? What is the President’s opinion on this fact?

In fact, all Western leaders would do well to ponder and answer this question — not least as the call for Muslims not to befriend non-Muslims is not some aberration unique to Islam in Austria, but is rather a mainstream Islamic teaching that goes straight back to the Koran.  Here, for example, is Koran 3:28:

Let believers [Muslims] not take infidels [non-Muslims] for friends and allies in place of believers.  Whoever does so will have nothing to hope for from Allah — unless it is by way of taqiyya against them.

The latter portion of that verse referencing taqiyya means that, whenever Muslims are in a position of weakness, they may pretend to befriend and ally with non-Muslims, as long as they continue harboring hate for the infidels in their hearts (for other Islamic-sanctioned forms of deception, read about tawriya and taysir).

Koran 5:51 is even more explicit, and names names:

O believers! Take neither Jews nor Christians for friends and allies — for they are friends and allies of one another. Whoever does so will be counted as one of them. Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.