‘You are Unbalanced & One-Sided’: Hungary’s FM Spars with BBC Reporter in Heated Migration Debate

BBC's hard-left propaganda is typical MSM

Peter Szijjarto on BBC Newsnight. June 26, 2018. © BBC Newsnight / YouTube

Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hit back at a BBC reporter who suggested his government is xenophobic and authoritarian during an intense interview, in which the politician defended his country’s immigration record.

As Hungary’s foreign affairs chief sat down for an interview with BBC Newsnight on Tuesday, the talk quickly turned heated. Reporter Emily Maitlis recalled how the Hungarian parliamentary election, which happened two months ago, was criticized by the nation’s opposition parties.

“There is a sense of erosion of the rule of law. This is no longer a democracy. It is creeping authoritarianism,” she told Szijjarto, whose conservative Fidesz party won over 70 percent of votes in April. The minister rebuffed the allegations.

“You echo lies on this television. And I don’t think it’s fair. You are unbalanced, you are one-sided,” he responded. “You look only at the opinion of those who are frustrated because they lost the election.”

BBC’s Maitlis also suggested that Hungary’s anti-immigration law “flouts human rights” and recalled the fierce rhetoric of country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, known for branding certain migrants “Muslim invaders” and speaking about the need to protect “Christian Hungary.”

“So, this isn’t actually about immigration, is it? It’s about xenophobia,” the reporter told Szijjarto who said that he considered the accusation a “very serious insult.”

“What we don’t want is a massive illegal influx coming from the south to us. We want to keep Hungary a Hungarian country. And we don’t think multiculturalism is by definition good,” he explained. “I understand that the liberal mainstream doesn’t like our laws. But it is the Hungarian voters whose expectations we have to fulfill.”

And whose country they have to protect from cultural suicide that much of Europe seems determined to inflict upon itself. A generation or two from now, when European countries are either worshiping Allah or at war with Islam, Hungary will be at peace.

MSM has fallen for the liberal propaganda that accepting Muslims into Europe is the right thing to do. If it is, why aren't Gulf countries accepting any migrants? They have accepted not one single migrant, and they are Muslim countries. They are also wealthy. In 2015, Qatar had just built housing for 70,000 badly needed migrant workers. Did they take 70,000 migrants from Syria or Iraq? No, they took migrant workers from India, Indonesia, and other countries not involved in the war on ISIS. How do you explain that?

MSM is also disgustingly ignorant of history, both ancient and recent. Otherwise they would know that when Islam moves into a country it takes over. It removes any opposition or extremely violent war breaks out in the attempt. This is what is coming to Europe and the left-wing media is too blind and stupid to see that.

Orban’s Hungarian government regularly faces criticism from the European Union and human rights groups for its ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards migration from the Middle East and Africa. Hungary is one of the few countries that refuses to accept mandatory migrant quotas proposed by the EU.

Last week, Hungary adopted a controversial bill punishing NGOs and aid workers suspected of “enabling illegal immigration.” The law, like many of Hungary’s anti-immigration measures, was denounced by various human rights watchdogs.