Austria's parliament passed a law on Wednesday that bans Muslim organizations from accepting financing from foreign sources and requires imams to be able to speak German.

The “Law on Islam” law met with little opposition from the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic population. It was backed by Austria's Catholic bishops, and was accepted by the main Muslim organization.

"We want an Islam of the Austrian kind, and not one that is dominated by other countries," said Sebastian Kurz, the 28-year-old conservative foreign minister.

Austria's previous "Law on Islam" dates from 1912, after the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Passage of the law comes amid government estimates indicating about 200 people from Austria — including women and minors — have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

A poll published by the OGM institute on Tuesday found 58 percent of Austrians feeling "radicalization" of the nation's Muslims was underway but the two-year-old bill passed by parliament predates the recent violence in France and Denmark, Kurz said.

Earlier this month French Prime Minister Manuel Valls similarly raised the notion of banning foreign funding of Islamic organizations. Austria's neighbor, Germany, also experienced an upsurge of anti-Islam sentiment in the form of the weekly protests, that have spread aross Europe. These have, however, been met with much larger anti-racism demonstrations and a robust response from Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews, who asserted that "Islam belongs to Germany."