Hungarian Bounty Hunters Threaten Migrants with Homemade Action Movie

If the media wants to call Toroczaki a monster, he’s a monster created by Angela Merkel, who each day now appears to be regretting her decision to let so many migrants into Germany. As thousands of migrants poured through Hungary’s villages and cities, Toroczaki decided that enough is enough.

He has introduced a zero-tolerance policy against all migrants, saying that the very future of Europe is at stake because of people he calls Muslim ‘invaders’ and ‘future terrorists’, and has vowed to stop this movement of people.

‘It is very important for the village to preserve its traditions,’ he says. ‘We can see large Muslim communities in western Europe that haven’t been able to integrate — and we don’t want to have the same experience here.’

He has announced new rules for the town he runs, and wants the rest of Hungary to follow suit, banning the building of mosques, making the Muslim call to prayer illegal, and banning the burqa and the ‘burkini’ swimsuit. He says the measures are key to preventing Muslims ‘causing fear, alarm and shock among the locals’.

There is no doubt that millions of his fellow countrymen share his distaste for migrants. The most obvious manifestation of this is the forbidding wire fence — dubbed the new ‘Iron Curtain’ by some — that now stretches 110 miles along the border with Serbia.

The fence was built by Hungarian prisoners and is topped by razor wire. It is also fitted with sophisticated monitoring devices which sound an alarm if the fence is damaged.

In addition, thousands of police and soldiers have been drafted in to patrol the fence — with instructions to forcibly return migrants to Serbia, even when they have made it past the fence and are on their way through Hungary to their final destination.

According to human rights groups and migrants I spoke to this week, the police regularly mete out extreme violence to those trying to sneak into Hungary, beating them and setting dogs on them to try to deter them from making any further attempts.

The mayor’s campaign has struck such a strong chord with local people that it has prompted the Hungarian government to follow suit and join this ‘iron fist’ crackdown against anyone illegally trying to enter the country.

Viktor Orban, the country’s prime minister, has positioned himself as the defender of Europe’s Christian tradition, saying that ‘everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe’.

After becoming the first EU leader to endorse Donald Trump as U.S. President, Mr Orban also warned that ‘we shouldn’t forget that the people who are coming here grew up in a different religion and represent a completely different culture. Most are not Christian, but Muslim.’

On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to ban all Muslims and to build a wall along the border with Mexico, but the Hungarian government makes him seem distinctly liberal. And what is happening here should be seen in the context of a wider backlash in Europe against Muslim migrants.

In France, the Right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen is riding high in the polls ahead of the election in April. In Holland, the Right-wing, anti-Muslim Geert Wilders is leading the polls just weeks before a general election. These are disturbing, if sadly not surprising, developments in the agonised debate over the great migration of recent times.

It is a debate in which Hungary is utterly uncompromising. To understand why, one must understand how Hungary’s bitter opposition to Muslims, stretching back centuries to the invasion and occupation by Ottoman Muslim rulers for 150 years until 1699. Ever since, it has seen itself as a bulwark against Islamic inroads into Europe. The recent mass migration of people from the Middle East and beyond has now inflamed those deep-rooted cultural tensions once more.

Along with the crackdown on the border and the banning of Muslims, Hungary is also planning to hold all migrants not sent back to Serbia in detention centres until their legal claims have been assessed.

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‘We are going to introduce new measures: no migrants, not even those who have already issued their request for asylum, can move freely, whether they are entitled to political asylum, refugee status or anything else,’ said Zoltán Kovács, a Hungarian government minister.

Liberals argue that America is supposed to be a beacon of hope for the rest of the world, which is why we need to let migrants in. If what’s happened in Western Europe is any indication, if we “let them in,” we’re going to be a beacon of destruction for the rest of the world. As for Toroczaki, he might be on to something.

Source: dailymail.co.uk