This dishonors the memory of the people who gave their lives to save Vienna and Christian Europe in 1683.

“Experts criticize the one-sided representation of Islam in school books,” translated from “Experten kritisieren einseitige Darstellung des Islams in Schulbüchern,” Exxpress, October 23, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):

Within the framework of the “Islam Studies”, scholars from different fields have now analyzed Austrian schoolbooks with regard to their portrayal of different religious groups. Their conclusion: While Islam and its history are portrayed through rose-colored glasses, Christianity and its heritage are described rather disparagingly, in some cases with negative remarks.

“Originally, we wanted to know how Islam is presented in our textbooks. But we quickly expanded the topics to include Christianity, gender, family and others,” Eleonore Witt-Dörring from CSPI Austria tells eXXpress. According to the analysis, there are striking differences in presentation between individual religious groups, according to which Islam tends to be presented positively, while Christianity tends to be presented negatively in common textbooks.