Events affiliated with the rise of Islamophobia in Hungary

By mays123

  • Billboard campaign and questionnaire

    The government launches a large-scale billboard campaign against immigrants in support of the National Consultation on Immigration and Terrorism and holds a questionnaire campaign linking migrants with terrorism.

  • Prime Minister Orbán in Brussels

    At a Brussels news conference PM Orbán invokes Hungary’s 150 years under Ottoman rule as a reason why “Hungarians don’t want to live with Muslims again”

  • Camerawoman Petra László

    The footage of Hungarian camerawoman Petra László tripping a refugee with child at the Serbian border causes global outrage and brings up the refugee/Islam-debate in Hungary.

  • Orbán shares Islamophobic remarks in interview

    In a joint interview with Die Presse, Die Welt, The Times and Le Monde, PM Orbán deems Muslims “impossible to integrate” and his determination to avoid the “emergence of parallel societies and Muslim demographic booms as happening in the West”.

  • The Paris Massacre

    The Paris massacre is heavily condemned by all major parties and is used as justification for their conservative Islamophobic stances.

  • Pig's heads on the Hungarian fences - tweet

    A Hungarian member of the European Parliament has been criticised for suggesting pigs' heads could be put on border fences to deter refugees.