From Never Again to Now and Again – The American Conservative

A quick glance at British statistics shows that the foreign-born population has been growing steadily since 1921 with a radical jump after 2001. In 2001, there were 1,600,000 Muslims in the U.K.. By 2021, their number had increased to 3,868,000. The Muslim population of the U.K. is expected to grow to 13 million by 2050. West Germany began admitting its first Turkish migrant workers in the 1960s; their number have since ballooned to four million. In addition, Germany has taken in almost a million Syrian migrants, which has resulted in further problems. In 2021, 65 percent of Syrians in Germany were unable to find work, placing additional strain on Germany s famed social welfare system. These radical changes did not occur in centuries, but in decades.

Hungary and the rest of post-socialist Europe, however, have taken a more cautious pace and some politicians, such as Orbán, or the recently elected Slovakian left-wing P.M. Robert Fico have sounded the alarm on immigration. In response they were criticized by the mainstream press as extremist, racist, and xenophobic. These adjectives are debatable; Orbán regularly connects his strong stance on immigration with protecting other minority groups. In 2016 he declared, We shall not import to Hungary crime, terrorism, homophobia and synagogue-burning anti-Semitism.

via www.theamericanconservative.com

The events of October 7th will make it much harder for the EU to castigate Orban for racism. There have been no Islamist riots in Hungary that I’ve heard of.