Austrians Will Soon Be Strangers in Their Own Country

BREAKING:

New figures show that ethnic Austrians are about to become a minority in Vienna’s elementary schools.

For the first time, Muslim pupils are now the largest religious group in Vienna's schools. According to recent figures, they make up 41.2% of pupils, while Christian… pic.twitter.com/KVNJNsBtgO

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… pupils have dropped to 34.5%. The rapid demographic change has prompted Austria’s largest party FPÖ to sound the alarm.

”41.2% Muslim pupils - it's no longer a minority, it's becoming the new majority. This isn't immigration anymore, it's displacement,” says the head of FPÖ’s youth wing Max Weinzierl.

The figures come from the city's school council. They also show that in more and more classrooms, German is a now the second language.

FPÖ’s security policy spokesman Hannes Amesbauer says that the changes are negative for Austria:

”Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country.”

At the same time, there are reports of an alarming increase in problems in schools. The teachers' union is sounding the alarm that staff are leaving ‘in droves’, and parents' organisations claim that there is chaos in the classrooms where few pupils speak German.

”The teacher has to repeat every sentence 10-12 times before it is understood,” says Evelyn Kometter, president of the Austrian Parents' Association.

Meanwhile, education officials now want to introduce a new school subject called ”Living in a Democracy” to promote tolerance and diversity values from an early age.

More and more young Austrian parents are leaving Vienna for the countryside, hoping to provide their kids with schools where the German language remains firmly entrenched and where there are low levels of violence.

The video is from Vienna and shows how quickly the city has changed.