Hungary to EU: migrant quotas will repeat Western Europe's 'failed' attempts at multiculturalism

Telegraph ^ | 26 Sep 2015 | Colin Freeman

[aquila48]

Hungary has defended its opposition to Brussels' plans for compulsory migrant quotas, saying it did not wish to repeat the West's "failed experiments" in multiculturalism. In a defiant rejection of diktats from Europe's high command, the country's right-wing government said it was not interested in "lectures" from the European Union about taking in Middle Eastern refugees.

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In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Orban's spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, responded by saying that integration in much of Western Europe had been at best a limited success. Hungary, he said, felt neither the wish nor the obligation to follow suit. "Contrary to Mr Timmerman's vision, we can't see into the future," Mr Kovács said. "But we are aware of the past, and multi-culturalism in Western Europe has not been a success in our view. We want to avoid making the same mistakes ourselves."

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"Mr Timmermans is right that we have not had the same experience as Western Europe, where countries like Holland, Britain and France have had mass immigration as a result of their colonial legacies," added Mr Kovács. "But we would like to deal with our problems in a way that suits us. "And we especially don't like it when people who have never lived in Hungary try to give us lectures on how we should cope with our own problems. Calling us racists or xenophobes is the cheapest argument. It's used just to dodge the issues."

[Eagles6]

Finally!

[PGalt]

HOORAY Hungary

[TigerLikesRooster]

Hungarian National Anthem

O God, bless the nation of Hungary

With your grace and bounty

Extend over it your guarding arm

During strife with its enemies

Long torn by ill fate

Bring upon it a time of relief

This nation has suffered for all sins

Of the past and of the future!

[nathanbedford]

It is as though history has distilled nothing out of the slaughter of the first world war and has nothing to teach us about the fate of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If there ever was an amalgam of ethnic groups and races which was dysfunctional it was that Empire in that war. Prior to the war, it was the ethnic animosity among the peoples of the Empire that precipitated the first world war by the assassination of the heir apparent to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Gen. Ludendorff of Germany was prompted to lament in his description of Austrian ally, "we are shackled to a corpse."

History has no bearing and facts on the ground have no meaning when they contradict leftist shibboleths. In America Democrat politicians (and, alas, many Republicans as well) resort to saying, "diversity is our strength" when diversity is our Achilles heel and the scope of history over millennia demonstrates that diversity is ultimately destructive. A melting pot is not diverse but homogeneous or, perhaps better put, homogenized.

A few Asian nations, Japan conspicuous among them, have failed to succumb to the siren of diversity. In generations to come Japan might prove to be the only rational society on earth.

[aquila48]

“A few Asian nations, Japan conspicuous among them, have failed to succumb to the siren of diversity. In generations to come Japan might prove to be the only rational society on earth.”

I agree... Future successful nations will be the ones that:

1. won’t water down a successful culture with the idiocy of multiculturalism

2. will embrace obvious reality over political correctness

[Cowboy Bob]

Safe neighborhoods in America have been destroyed by the federal government in the name of “diversity.”

[spokeshave]

Appropriate music for History Repeating:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8

[BobL]

“In a defiant rejection of diktats from Europe’s high command, the country’s right-wing government said it was not interested in “lectures” from the European Union about taking in Middle Eastern refugees. “

I LOVE THIS GUY!

Seems that President Trump will have at least one foreign leader he can be friends with (and probably many more...when it comes down to it).

[BobL]

Look at the first picture CAREFULLY. With one exception, everyone in the foreground is a woman or a child. Then look at the background - ALL FIGHTING-AGED MEN, no exceptions.

This is not an accident.

WE ARE BEING PLAYED here.

[theoldmarine]

Is that guy some how related to The Donald?

[CitizenUSA]

There are some sane countries still left in the world (America is not currently one of them)...

[CitizenUSA]

NB: “...diversity is our Achilles heel.”

Exactly right, but diversity and multiculturalism is a religion with the left.

[Salman]

Say what you will, in 100 years there will still be Hungarians.

[CPT Clay]

Amen!