Forcing someone into marriage will be punishable by up to five years in prison and foreigners must complete an integration course—including a language test—before they get permanent residency, according to a new law passed by the German parliament on March 17.

The parliament also expanded the rights of women forced into marriage. Foreigners living in Germany forced into a marriage and subsequently forced to leave the country will have the right to return to Germany.

Austria, too, is in the process of tightening its immigration laws. All except highly skilled immigrants will soon have to learn German before they arrive, according to a bill agreed by Austria’s government last month and in the process of going through parliament.

Asylum seekers will have to stay in a camp during their first week in the country, under the proposed laws.

Austria, however, is not against all immigrants. The proposed laws will make it easier for skilled non-EU migrants to enter the country to work in jobs Austria is having trouble filling.

Germany, and most of Europe, is gradually rethinking its approach on immigration. Leaders are declaring multiculturalism has failed, and senior politicians, especially in Germany, are speaking out against immigrants, and Muslims in particular.

The latest example came from Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who said that Germany took on too many immigrants from Turkey during the 1960s, according to an article published in the Guardian on March 18.

“When we decided 50 years ago to invite workers from Turkey, we expected that their children would integrate automatically. But the problems have increased with the third generation, not diminished, therefore we have to change the policy,” he said.

Christian Social Union Party Chairman Horst Seehofer, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and new Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich are on the growing list of senior government officials who have spoken out against immigration or Islam in recent weeks.

Even the new forced marriage law reflects the growing animosity toward Islam. The practice is abhorrent to the West, but common in some Muslim cultures.

Islam does present a genuine threat to Europe’s way of life. But Europe has a history of reacting violently to these kinds of threats. Watch for the backlash against immigration and Islam to become even more serious.