Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has made nationalistic and controversial statements in the past. But with his country emerging as a main gateway for refugees trying to reach richer European nations, his words suddenly carry much heavier weight.
On Thursday, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper published an op-ed by Orban in which he claimed that he was defending European Christianity against a Muslim influx by stopping thousands of refugees from leaving Hungary. “Everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe,” he wrote in the op-ed. “We must acknowledge that the European Union’s misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation.”
“We shouldn’t forget that the people who are coming here grew up in a different religion and represent a completely different culture. Most are not Christian, but Muslim…. That is an important question, because Europe and European culture have Christian roots,” he wrote.
It is ironic that the man who wants to save Europe’s Christian identity used to have no Christian identity himself.
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This is such a silly argument. Do these Christians have such a low self-esteem that they think their culture and religion will be lost if they have Muslim neighbours?
Well as a matter of facts whole world knows who is responsible for this whole crisis and bloodshed.
Now everyone knows
Who started civil war in Syria?
Who made ISIS?
Who is extremist groups in region?