Islamic Sharia Law Legally Valid in Austrian Civil Disputes, Vienna Court Rules

August 22, 2025 — Breitbart.com reports: “A court in Vienna ruled this week that Islamic Sharia law can be legally upheld in Austria in civil disputes, sparking accusations that the nation’s Christian values are being undermined by multiculturalism.

The Vienna Regional Court for Civil Law Matters has upheld the findings of a Sharia arbitration tribunal concerning a civil dispute between two men in Austria, with the group of informal Islamic mediators ruling that one owed the other €320,000 ($372,000).

The man appealed to the Vienna court, arguing that Sharia diktats have no standing in Austria and that the Islamic code violated the constitutional rights of the European country.

Yet, according to Kronen Zeitung, Vienna judges found that it was permissible for private individuals to settle civil disputes through the manner they saw fit, and that Sharia arbitration did not violate the basic law of Austria…”  (As we have shared numerous times on our program and in the Van Impe Intelligence Briefing, the American Thinker web page lists the top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies coming to the conclusion that Sharia Law ultimately degrades societies and diminishes freedom:

• Islam commands offensive, aggressive and unjust jihad which is a holy war
• Islam orders apostates to be killed
• Islam orders death for Muslims and death for non-Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran, and even Sharia itself
• Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped, put to death, and adulterers to be stones
• Islam commands all homosexuals to be executed
• Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated
• Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off
• Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge, physical eye for physical eye
• Islam allows husbands to beat their wives
• Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers be beaten.)