Austria, like Germany have come a long way since their Nazi days. Germany has welcomed over a million Muslim “refugees” and has seen the country decay. Now, in Austria, the Green Party President (Alexander Van der Bellen) has issued a statement on the future of women in Austria.
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”A day will come where we will have to ask all women to wear the headscarf”.
Alexander Van der Bellen, the Green Party backed Austrian president, is a politician most people will not have heard of since last December. The former economist made international headlines and allowed the global establishment to breathe a sigh of relief when he prevented ‘far right’ nationalist candidate, Norbert Hofer, of Austria’s Freedom Party, from winning the presidency.
Mr. Van der Bellen is again making headlines beyond Austria for a segment broadcast on state television on Tuesday, looking back at his first 100 days in office.
A clip used in the piece shows the Austrian president speaking with students during a roundtable discussion, commenting on proposals to ban the full Islamic face veil in the country, which he opposes.
Speaking of ‘’rampant Islamophobia’’, the president clearly emphasizes the word ‘’all’’ when suggesting that every woman would be asked to wear the veil, ‘’ in solidarity with those who do it for religious reasons.’’
The bizarre comments, made weeks ago but only aired this week have caused uproar on social media but drawn surprisingly little reaction from feminists.
Austria, like several other European countries, is debating a law to ban the burqa and full face veil, a government move intended to take votes away from the nationalist Freedom Party, during what is likely to be an election year.