In Vienna, Muslim Political Parties Are Now Appearing
Apr 20, 2025 4:00 pm
By Hugh Fitzgerald
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In Austria, there are now two political parties run by, and for, Muslims. These are SÖZ (“Social Austria of the Future”) and the even more anti-Israel and pro-Hamas Liste GAZA — “Voices Against the Genocide.” There are more Muslim candidates now standing for office, so far only at the level of city government. And because of the continued flow of Muslim migrants into Austria, and the much higher fertility rates of Muslim women as compared to non-Muslims, the percentage of Muslims in the general population in Austria inexorably increases. And so does the support for SÖZ and Liste GAZA. More on this demographic conquest from within, and the political changes already taking place as a result, can be found here: “Vienna Mayor Wears a Headscarf? Migrant Party Campaigns with ‘Gaza’ Candidate,” translated from “Wiener Bürgermeisterin mit Kopftuch? Migrantenpartei wirbt mit „Gaza”-Kandidatin,” by Emanuella Sutter, Exxpress, April 10, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
She is a Muslim, wears a hijab, is a middle school teacher in Vienna-Favoriten, and is running as the top candidate for the small party SÖZ in the Vienna municipal elections: We’re talking about Sali Attia, whose profile is featured on the SÖZ (“Social Austria of the Future”) election posters. Above it is the motto: “The New Viennese Mayor.” The subtitle reads: “5 Racism-Free Years.” Attia already ran in the last National Council elections – not for SÖZ, but for the “Liste GAZA – Voices Against Genocide” founded in 2024. The anti-Zionist party received just 0.4 percent of the vote in September.
The slogan on posters for Sali Attia describe her as “the new Viennese mayor.” This is not true; she is running only to be a member of the city council, not to be mayor . But it is a sign of the aspirations of Muslims in Vienna, who are hoping that as the Muslim population rises, eventually it will be possible to follow London’s lead and have a Muslim mayor.
“Liste GAZA” is apparently trying to gain a foothold in Vienna City Hall with Attia – without directly running in the election on April 27. There appears to be a lively exchange between SÖZ and “Liste GAZA,” both of which specifically advocate for Muslim Austrians with a migrant background.
The SÖZ party, founded in 2019 by Hakan Gördü, the son of Turkish guest workers, has so far only run in the federal capital, where it won 1.20 percent of the vote in the 2020 election and made it into six district councils.
For the September National Council elections, SÖZ endorsed the “GAZA List.” “A list that does not turn a blind eye to the bloody genocide in Gaza!” wrote the party, which advocates for Islamic causes. It then called for voting for the “GAZA List” for “every innocent person murdered in Palestine.” The endorsement makes no mention of the bloody massacre of innocent Israeli civilians by the radical Islamist Hamas on October 7, 2023.
As SÖZ was not running candidates in any national elections last September — so far it has fielded candidates only in Vienna itself — it decided to urge its supporters to vote for Liste GAZA, a way of responding to the “genocidal Israelis” and a way to get revenge for “every innocent person murdered in Palestine.” Neither SÖZ nor the Liste GAZA has ever mentioned the October 7 atrocities committed inside Israel by Hamas.
An inquiry from exxpress regarding the precise regulations governing the cooperation between the two parties and the party’s stance on Israel’s right to exist remained unanswered by the time SÖZ published this article.
SÖZ is primarily committed to supporting Muslims. In the current election campaign, the party is pushing for an official, nationwide holiday marking the end of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr) and is calling for an annual, public Eid celebration “in a central square, such as the Rathausplatz” (as reported by exxpress). It is also advocating for Ramadan candlelight vigils on the streets of Vienna’s Favoriten district, as is already the case in Frankfurt and Munich, for example….
SÖZ puts most of its effort into promoting the status and power of Muslims inside Austria itself, where it wants Muslim holidays to receive official recognition and celebration by the national government. Liste GAZA focuses more on Muslims abroad, especially the Palestinians and their war to obliterate Israel and replace it with a 23rd Arab state.
In 1683, the Muslim Ottomans attempted to conquer Vienna. Their siege of the city lasted for two months, and they were able to breach the outer defensive walls, and were making inroads on the second, interior wall when the Christian forces, led by Jan Sobieski, managed to gain the upper hand and push them back, away from the city, leading the Ottoman army to flee in scattered retreat. This second siege of Vienna by the Ottomans — the first, also unsuccessful, was in 1529 — represented the high-water mark of Ottoman conquests in Europe. From then on, the Ottomans were engaged in a long slow retreat from eastern Europe. But now we are seeing, in slow motion, a different conquest of Vienna — and of much of Europe — by Muslims, not with weapons of war, but through the “wombs of our women,” as the Algerian leader Houari Boumedienne predicted would happen in a speech he gave at the UN in 1974. The tocsin has been sounded in Vienna. What are the Austrians going to do to ensure that their country does not become, in just two decades, overrun with Muslims who do not wish the indigenous non-Muslims well, and are convinced that Islam “must dominate and is not to be dominated”? |
