Hungary

Banned mosque construction, the use of a muezzin at prayer times and the wearing of clothes such as the niqab and the burkini.

Source: ET One of Hungary’s main Muslim organisations decried on Monday what it said were ‘xenophobic’ steps taken by an ultra-nationalist town mayor to preserve traditional Christian values and prevent immigration. Asothalom, close to the Serbian border, last week banned mosque construction, the use of a muezzin at prayer times and […]

Muslims threaten Europe’s Christian identity, Hungary’s leader says

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 […]