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  • Debating the 2015 Islam law...
    Hafez, Farid

    Discourse & society, 07/2017, Volume: 28, Issue: 4
    Journal Article

    This article analyses the two national parliamentary debates on the new Islam law of 2015 using a Viennese School of Critical Discourse Analysis. It asks how the new Islam law was framed from the perspectives of the political parties in power and of those in opposition. It also shows in detail which arguments were raised to defend, alter or support the proposed law by identifying the list of topoi used. It asks especially how racist arguments were debated between on one side a comparably tolerant Austrian system of laws on religion, and on the other, the dominant rightwing populist Freedom Party of Austria, which aimed to foster Islamophobia.