Muslims Everywhere Outraged After This Country Bans Islam Within Their Borders More and more, were seeing our foreign allies stepping up and taking action against Islam. Meanwhile, our government sits idly by denying the fact that it is even an issues. According to reports, Austrias parliament recently passed The Law on Islam, seeking to regulate how Islam is administered by banning foreign funding for Islamic organizations. The law also requires any group with the desire to represent Austrian Muslims to submit and use a German translation of the Koran. We want an Islam of the Austrian kind, and not one that is dominated by other countries, claims Sebastian Kurz, a conservative foreign minister. The law received little opposition from the Roman Catholic population, and was even backed by Austrias Catholic bishops. In fact, the biggest push-back they received was by the Turkish. Austrias Muslim population reaches about a half a million, making up about 6% of the total. They are primarily from Turkish migrant workers. Mehmet Gormez, head of Turkeys state religious affairs directorate, the Diyanet, claimed that with this draft legislation, religious freedoms in Austria will have fallen back a hundred years. Austrian Islamic organizations have accepted the law, but received some backlash from Muslim youth as well as the Turkish-Islamic Union in Austria (ATIB), which runs many mosques. The Austrian government argues that the new law strengthens Muslims legal status by guaranteeing care in hospitals and the army, and protecting their rights to eat and produce food in accordance with Islamic rules. Still, some claim the law disregards morals and laws of coexistence. What do you think of the new law? Do you applaud Austria for taking a stand where others have not? 