In what many citizens concerned with the survival of Austria as a European nation-state are calling a demographic tipping point, Muslims have now become the largest religious group in Vienna’s compulsory schools, comprising a striking 41.2% of all students across primary, secondary, and vocational education levels.
The stark demographic shift has sparked outrage among conservatives and nationally-minded citizens in Austria, with the Freedom Party (FPÖ) warning that the capital is being culturally transformed beyond recognition.
“This is no longer immigration. This is displacement,” said Maximilian Weinzierl, national council member and leader of the FPÖ’s youth wing. “41.2% of Muslim students—that’s no longer a minority, that’s the new majority. What we as the FPÖ have been warning about for decades, but which was always dismissed as right-wing scaremongering, is now reality: Immigration has completely overrun our country.”
Hannes Amesbauer, the Freedom Party’s security policy spokesman, didn’t mince words either, declaring that “Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country.”
Martin Sellner, a right-wing activist in Austria, had this to say about the newly released figures:
“Muslim majority in Viennese schools. 10 years ago, it was only secondary schools. Five years ago, it was only the elementary school. Now all schools—tomorrow the whole city. This is a brutal population replacement. An illegal settlement policy that destroys our culture and the sovereignty of our people. The biggest crime of the 21st century. Remigration will stop it.”
Muslim majority in Viennese schools
-10 years ago, it was only secondary schools.
-Five years ago it was only the elementary school.
-Now all schools – tomorrow the whole city.This is a brutal population replacement. An illegal settlement policy that destroys our culture and… pic.twitter.com/pHVzF49rcF
— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) April 16, 2025
The statistics, released by Vienna’s left-liberal-led City Council, confirm what many Austrians already feel in their daily lives – a slow but dramatic transformation of their homeland.
While just 34.5% of students now identify as Christian (17.5% Catholic and 14.5% Orthodox), more than 23% have no religious affiliation, and the remaining minority includes Buddhists (0.2%), Jews (0.1%), and others (0.9%).
These numbers don’t just point to religious diversity—they tell a deeper story of cultural replacement, where German is often a second language in classrooms, teachers are resigning in droves, and traditional Austrian values are fading fast under the weight of mass migration policies championed by the ruling political elites.
This grim warning echoes widespread concerns among educators and parents. Reports from schools across Vienna describe chaotic learning environments, severe language barriers, and rising hostility linked to anti-Western, anti-democratic attitudes among some migrant youth.
Evelyn Kometter, head of Austria’s National Parents’ Association, painted a bleak picture of the classroom. Teachers, she said, have to “repeat a sentence 10 to 12 times until it is finally understood. But by then, two-thirds of the lesson is already over.” In one case, a mother reported her child being in a class of 22 students, only three of whom could speak German.
Vienna’s classrooms are becoming unrecognizable. Violence, antisemitism, misogyny, and LGBTQ hostility are increasingly reported, not as isolated incidents, but as recurring features in many migrant-majority schools.
Even Bettina Emmerling, Vienna’s Councillor for Education and a member of the left-liberal NEOS party, has admitted that these trends are “concerning.”
“In Vienna, no one should base their way of life on the fundamentalist interpretation of religious texts that are hostile to women, minorities, the state or democracy, she said, adding that many Muslim youths exhibit “significantly more religious” attitudes and a “growing rejection of gender equality and democratic norms.”
Instead of halting mass migration or enforcing real integration standards, Austria’s progressive government is doubling down, pushing for a new curriculum called “Living in a Democracy,” meant to instill values like diversity and tolerance in primary school children.
Critics say the plan is a band-aid over a gaping wound. The real issue, they argue, is that Austria’s government, under intense pressure from leftist-globalist parties like the SPÖ and the Greens, refuses to acknowledge that “replacement migration” is not a conspiracy theory, but a lived reality.
FPÖ leader Weinzierl laid the blame squarely on Austria’s globalist establishment and out-of-touch political class.
“Even together with other Christian European migrants, our children are fewer than non-European Muslims. This is the direct result of replacement migration, asylum abuse, and the denial of reality by the SPÖ, ÖVP, and Greens. In more and more school classes, our values are becoming secondary, and our children are being marginalized by migrants.”
The conditions within Vienna’s schools have grown increasingly unmanageable for educators.
According to union representative Thomas Krebs, the situation in Vienna’s schools has become so untenable that teachers are quitting en masse. “On one peak day, I even received 20 reports of staff resigning for the coming school year,” he said.
Yet rather than address the core issue—the sustained mass influx of poorly integrated, non-German-speaking migrant children—the government’s solution is to build more schools, pave over green spaces, and install temporary container classrooms to accommodate the surge.
“They can think of nothing better to do than to plow up the last green spaces and sports facilities for schools,” Krebs lamented.
The Freedom Party’s warnings are no longer theoretical. The numbers prove what many Austrians already feel: the cultural erasure of their identity is underway, and unfortunately, it’s accelerating.
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