Update: Austrian Teacher Suspended over anti-Semitic Pamphlet.

Meanwhile, the Austrian Times published a study by a local professor of the sociology of religion at the Islamic Religion and Pedagogical Institute at Vienna University.

 The study also concluded that 8.5% of Muslim teachers consider violence a legitimate means to spread Islam, 44% considered it important to tell students they were better than non-Muslims, and 28.4% did not believe it possible to be both Muslim and European.

Professor Mouhanad Khorchide concluded in his study that Muslim teachers in Austria are generally anti-democratic, and some were dubbed "fanatical".

 

He said that of the 210 Muslim teachers surveyed, 21.9% reject democracy as incompatible with Islam, while 22.6% have "fanatical attitudes".

 

Muslim religion teacher in Vienna was suspended on Thursday for allegedly giving his students anti-Semitic pamphlets.

Austrian Education Minister Claudia Schmied urged the Vienna School Authority to ban the middle school teacher and revoke his teacher's license for encouraging students to abstain from shopping at businesses he listed as "Jewish."

Anas Schakfeh, president of the Official Islamic Community in Austria, said the teacher was suspended Thursday and an investigation into his actions is under way.

The teacher has not been identified but Schakfeh says he is "around 30 years old" and taught at a regular school in Vienna.