Articles, Opinions & Views: Austria: Textbooks present one-sided, favorable view of Islam, including ‘splendor’ of the 1683 siege of Vienna - White Washing Muslim Atrocities on a Grand Scale By Robert Spencer
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Austria: Textbooks present one-sided, favorable view of Islam, including ‘splendor’ of the 1683 siege of Vienna - White Washing Muslim Atrocities on a Grand Scale By Robert Spencer
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Jihad Watch : This dishonors the memory of the people who gave their lives to save Vienna and Christian Europe in 1683. Get the reality of what happened in Austria in 1683 in The History of Jihad. “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.
These views can be found in all subjects, such as German language,
geography and history. In this context, the development of textbook
content over the past decades is very interesting: Whereas 30 years ago a
lot of continuous text and factual, objective history were common,
“today we find books with many illustrations, mnemonics, and objectivity
is increasingly being replaced by opinion-forming propaganda”, says the
Islam expert.
Specifically, the experts criticize the portrayal of historical
events. For example, the Crusades are portrayed very negatively in the
books, and the reconquest of Mecca by the Prophet Mohammed as a purely
peaceful act. “In addition, the teachings of Islam are sometimes
misrepresented,” the expert emphasizes. She is also critical of the
portrayal of the headscarf. For example, one textbook says that many
Muslim girls and women wear a headscarf for religious reasons, which is
why they are “mobbed by some people”. This is not wrong in principle,
but it is one-sided: “The reality is that girls without headscarves are
also bullied in Austrian schools.
The description of the Ottoman siege of Vienna in a school textbook,
for example, is also problematic. There it says, among other things,
“2500 colorful tents (…) Oxen, people with turbans……. strange smells
they perceive.
The Orient with its splendor camped before them as in a
shop window.”
