This paper assays the two national parliamentary debates on the novel Islam law of 2015 employing a Viennese School of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines how the novel Islam law was framed from the viewpoints of the political parties in power and of those in opposition. It also displays in detail which arguments were put forward to uphold, change or back the presented law by identifying the list of topoi employed. It examines particularly how racist arguments were discussed between on one side a comparably forbearing Austrian system of laws on religion, and on the other, the dominant right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria, which tried to promote Islamophobia.