Hungarian leader: Muslim migrants can’t be let in

3 September 2015, 6:18 pm

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is warning that the wave of mostly Muslim refugees coming to Europe threatens to undermine the continent’s Christian roots — an idea rejected by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“If you’re being overrun, you can’t accept” migrants, Orban wrote in German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, adding that most were Muslims, not Christians and criticizing the EU’s “failed immigration policy.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives a speech in front of renovated Jewish graves at the Kozma street Jewish cemetery in Budapest, on January 26, 2015 during a ceremony for the grave refurbishment on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp held by the Nazis during WWII. (Photo credit: AFP/ ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

“We must not forget that those who are coming in have been brought up under a different religion and represent a profoundly different culture,” wrote the conservative Hungarian leader, who was visiting Brussels Thursday.

“The majority are not Christians but Muslims. That is an important question because Europe and European culture have Christian roots.

— AFP