“We Are in a Religious War”
The Austrian teacher has issued a stark warning.
Christian Klar, a Vienna-based teacher and local politician for the Austrian People’s Party (OVP), has published his second book — and he does not mince his words, writes the Austrian daily Heute. In his new work, titled How Can We Save Our Children’s Future?, he delivers a fierce critique of the country’s school system.
He takes particular aim at the role of political Islam and the impact of migration on Austrian education.
„I’ll f*** your mother’ — that’s the new ‘Good morning,”
– says Mr. Klar, who will present his new book next Tuesday. In it, he speaks with striking honesty and clarity about the presence of Islam in Austrian schools.
“We are in a religious war,”
– the teacher told the daily Kurier newspaper. According to him, many pupils do not identify with Austrian society and reject basic values such as women’s rights and tolerance toward homosexuality.
In his latest book, Mr. Klar recounts numerous — and at times harshly worded — anecdotes from everyday school life:
from a boy who had never heard a word of German until the age of three, to a father who refuses to speak to female teachers. He also criticises the frequent visibility of headscarves and prayer caps.
Mr. Klar speaks openly about language skills as well. The lack of German, he says, is not the main problem but rather a symptom of a deeper cultural conflict. In his view, integration is above all “a matter of will.”
“The language problems are merely the consequence of the cultural and religious war being waged in our country,” Mr. Klar told Kurier. “If people truly wanted to integrate, they could learn the language quickly.”
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As a solution, he calls for greater decisiveness, clear rules and sanctions within schools — including for those who, as he puts it, “only associate authority with punishment.” He also advocates mandatory language tests starting from the age of three.