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We can't take Muslim migrants as we don't have mosques: Slovakia
Al Arabiya News ^ | Thursday, August 20, 2015 | Staff writer

Posted on 08/20/2015 11:38:06 AM PDT by Jyotishi

Caption -- A Syrian refugee family spend the day in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey, August 10, 2015. (Reuters)

Slovakia will take in 200 Christian Syrian migrants instead of Muslims because of a lack of infrastructure -- including a shortage of mosques in the small Eastern European state -- its interior ministry told the BBC on Wednesday. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33986738

Under a European Union relocation scheme to share the burden of thousands of Syrian migrants fleeing the civil war back home, member states will take in 40,000 new arrivals from Italy, Turkey and Greece.

But Ivan Metik, an interior ministry spokesman, told the BBC that small Slovakia was "only a transit country" and not an attractive option for a long-term stay -- particularly for Muslims.

"We could take 800 Muslims but we don't have any mosques in Slovakia so how can Muslims be integrated if they are not going to like it here?"

The spokesman denied that the move was discriminatory and said the decision to accommodate only Christian migrants was to safeguard community cohesion.

Syrian priority

Slovakia is not the only state seeking to give priority to Syrian refugees over other migrant groups pouring into Europe.

Greece is giving Syrian refugees priority in registration and embarkation for the mainland, over other nationalities such as Afghans and Pakistanis.

Germany -- which expects to see as many as 800,000 migrants arriving this year - is also looking at differentiating between refugee groups. It seeks to prioritize people from war-torn countries such as Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, and the roughly 40 percent of asylum applicants who come from the Balkan nations.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alien; christian; czechrepublic; europe; europeanunion; germany; greece; hungary; immigration; islam; jaroslawkaczynski; migrant; miloszeman; muslim; muzziefree; nationalism; poland; populism; robertfico; slovakia; syria; viktororban; waronterror

1 posted on 08/20/2015 11:38:06 AM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Slovakia Thumps up.... I like your creativity...


2 posted on 08/20/2015 11:39:46 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Jyotishi

Slovakia also has standards.

Which are way, way above those of the Dorkbama the Muslim regime.


3 posted on 08/20/2015 11:40:49 AM PDT by Da Coyote (Di)
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To: BigEdLB

A+


4 posted on 08/20/2015 11:40:51 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Jyotishi

...and we Slovaks like to keep our heads attached to our bodies.


5 posted on 08/20/2015 11:42:05 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Jyotishi

And NEVER allow any to be built. Never.


6 posted on 08/20/2015 11:42:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: All

Also - Syrian Christians are mostly Roman Catholic. Slovakia is about 60% Roman Catholic.


7 posted on 08/20/2015 11:42:42 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Jyotishi

Good for Slovakia for keeping out enemy colonists. Muslims are not immigrants they are COLONISTS and any country letting them in is like a body letting in an infection.

A healthy body protects itself from infection.

The alternative is death.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 11:46:40 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: BigEdLB

They have had a thousand years to come up with that excuse!


9 posted on 08/20/2015 11:54:59 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: BigEdLB
I lived in Japan 1988-2002. Among other things, the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Somalia and elsewhere raged during this time.

The United Nations would assign Japan to take a given number of refugees, say 500.

Japan would ask for a list, including profiles of the aspiring refugees. They would send their people to interview the top dozen or so in their refugee camps, then announce that they would accept two of them. Usually those two were either married to Japanese nationals or had a PhD in some hot field.

The UN would either feign outrage and demand that Japan accept more or ask for reasons to clarify their rejection.

To the former, Japan always responded "feel free to submit us profiles of more suitable candidates." To the later, they would respond "It is unlikely that these candidates would assimilate into our society and would not have a happy time even making the attempt."

Needless to say, Muslims almost never made the cut.

10 posted on 08/20/2015 11:58:41 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Jyotishi

Incoming Muslims will simply demand that churches be made available for Islamic worship.

And once the arselifters do their thing inside a church, it becomes a mosque forever.

Simple, yes?


11 posted on 08/20/2015 11:59:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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We can't take Muslim migrants as we don't have mosques: Slovakia

Well, if that is all it takes then I have a suggestion...

12 posted on 08/20/2015 12:00:33 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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“We can’t take Muslim migrants as we don’t have mosques: Slovakia”

Can we ship them some of ours?

We can demolish them here, put the rubble on boats, and send them over, to be reassembled if possible. Along with their attendees of course.


13 posted on 08/20/2015 12:03:54 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: elcid1970

Although some former mosques have become churches.


14 posted on 08/20/2015 12:12:48 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Jyotishi

Slovakia just showed the way forward.

Extrapolate to building codes that for a country with existing Mosques that the capacity doesn’t allow for additional persons.

As for new Mosque building permits, throw in building codes, land use codes, aesthetic codes, noise codes, access codes, private driveway codes, health codes, environmental codes and region-wide community hearings.

If Muslims take it to court, throw the entire book at them and let them spend years arguing point by point.

And never give up.


15 posted on 08/20/2015 12:17:54 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: ForYourChildren

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326121/posts?page=47#47


16 posted on 08/20/2015 12:32:05 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Biggirl

Other than Cordoba Cathedral, which went from a mosque to a church in the 13th Century (and today’s muzzies want it back), I can’t think of any other mosque to church conversions.

Hope they exist, though.


17 posted on 08/20/2015 2:28:31 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970

Most likely in Spain, other than for that, and it is right now still a museum, it is Hagia Sophia.


18 posted on 08/20/2015 2:41:18 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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