Remix News has previously reported on the rapidly growing number of Muslim students in Vienna’s schools, with now more than 50 percent of first graders listed as Muslims for the first time ever. Now, an article from Profil talks of some of the consequences of these developments, including one secondary school where a young Christian boy is the only Christian in his first-grade class, exposing him to continuous ridicule and insults.
Out of the 390 students at the school, 230 are Muslim, nearly 60 percent. In total, the school features a 99 percent immigration background. Only five out of the total of 390 students has no migrant background.
Among the insults he has to endure is being called a “pig,” by the other students. During Ramadan, students also partake in fasting challenges, “supported by mobile apps where they award themselves crescent moons like points.” This goes so far that some even refuse swimming lessons because the water might touch their lips, which would violate their religious obligation.
In total, the school features a bewildering 32 languages, with the biggest pool of non-German speakers coming from Turkey, with 81 speaking that language at home. Another 67 speak Arabic at home, followed by Chechen (27).
One teacher told a Profil journalist that there are so many problems in the class, that each class could use its own social worker. The report additionally describes cases of neglect, drug use, and even arrests among young people.
🇩🇪🔴 A young German girl spoke of the nightmare she experiences from her Muslim classmates.
"Sometimes they say to me that I’m German. And yeah, then they laugh at me, curse at me and tease me. Others are always Muslim, and they ask me why I am not a Muslim. I said I am a… pic.twitter.com/gggVOm9IPs
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 21, 2025Half of the students come from families living on welfare, with two out of three repeating at least one grade in elementary school. Due to the extreme diversity and differing religions, Profil reports that religious tensions dominate in the school every day.
The school illustrates not only the problems of multiculturalism in the school system, but also the threat to minority students, who are now ethnic Austrians and Christians, once the demographic picture flips.
Just this past December, Remix News ran a story that more than half of Vienna’s first-grade population do not understand German, a new milestone in the Austrian capital’s demographic transformation. Earlier last year, Muslim students had already become the largest religious group in Vienna’s schools.
In yet another story in December, a headmaster recounted how a Muslim father demanded that a gay teacher be dismissed. The boy was ultimately allowed to switch classes, but as the headmaster explained, this was just a band-aid to a growing crisis: “The topic of religion permeates the entire school day: Islam is omnipresent, everything is ‘haram’ or ‘halal’… Islamic rules are discussed by the children,” he said.
Last August, Remix also profiled a report about refugees deliberately failing their German-language tests to avoid low-paying work, seeing it as beneath them and presumably preferring to simply live off of benefits.
In July 2025, the unemployment rate for Syrians in Austria stood at 45.4 percent. Vienna is the epicenter of the problem, with more than half of all unemployed migrants living in the capital. Meanwhile, in other federal states, tens of thousands of low-skilled jobs remain unfilled.
Migrants on welfare is an issue elsewhere in Europe as well, particularly in Germany, where the budget has come under increasing strain. In one wild story of abuse, a Bosnian migrant living illegally in Germany for over two decades receives more than €7,000 every month from the government to support him, his wife, and their eight children.
🇩🇪❓"Why don’t you have any German friends?"
🔺"Because they don’t belong to us. I can’t stand the Germans too much."
Thousands of German students now face discrimination and sometimes outright assault from foreigners in their school systems.
Yet, the narrative of the "evil… pic.twitter.com/3EtIdpGpna
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 19, 2025
