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Hungary's Muslims fear migrant referendum

2016-10-01 21 Dailymotion

In Sunday’s referendum Hungarians will be asked whether they agree to the EU dictating how many migrants they must take in.<br /><br /> The government bias is pretty clear – one billboard reads “did you know that the Paris terror attacks were carried out by migrants?<br /><br /> Hungary border police are beating asylum-seekers, including children. Sickening. <br /><br />New evidence from AmnestyOnline https://t.co/irYKgxO3Ad pic.twitter.com/ZSMR3×1xcZ— Andrew Stroehlein (astroehlein) September 27, 2016<br /><br /> It’s made Hungarian Muslims jumpy but one imam at a mosque in Budapest has reacted by opening up to outsiders.<br /><br /> “We could say that this campaign is against the migrants but in reality it is covertly against Islam, that’s how people mostly understood it. Since a large percentage of the migrants are Muslims, indirectly it is against Islam. Muslims in Hungary have felt the disadvantages of this.”<br /><br /> After Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently commented that Muslim asylum seekers would destroy Hungarian Christian identity and culture many Muslims are, unsurprisingly, feeling rejected.<br /><br /> “I’m starting to feel that my own homeland is repudiating me. I consider myself a good Hungarian and I want to be one, too, but if people are surrounded by this kind of propaganda and they are so impressionable, it often makes you wonder,” one Muslim woman said.<br /><br /> In 2015 European Council had called on Hungary to take in around 1,300 asylum seekers of the 160,000 it wanted re-settled in the EU.<br /><br /> The latest census in 2011 found that 5,600 Hungarians are Muslims.<br /><br /> Hungary holds a referendum of EU mandatory migration quotas on Sunday, with the No vote leading in the polls. pic.twitter.com/ek8JVXPX81— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) September 29, 2016<br />

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