Austria: Court Rules Islamic Sharia Law Legally Valid in Civil Disputes

A court in Vienna ruled this week that Islamic Sharia law can be legally upheld in Austria in civil disputes, sparking accusations that the nation’s Christian values are being undermined by multiculturalism...

However, the court noted that this would only apply to civil matters and that Sharia is not applicable in criminal cases. Nevertheless, critics warned that the ruling demonstrated an erosion of the Western liberties and Christian ethics upon which Austria was founded...

Upper Austrian deputy governor Manfred Haimbuchner of the populist Freedom Party said that “Sharia is incompatible with our core values,” and added that the case was “another example of how our legal system and our constitutional state have nothing to counter the gradual appropriation of Islam.”...

The French intelligence found that the effective fifth column operations engaged in by the Islamist group specifically aimed to use Western liberal values to further their aims, infiltrating EU and other government institutions to push concepts such as “Islamophobia” — a term coined by the Muslim Brotherhood...