Viktor Orban's comments come as refugees are forced off train headed towards Austria and taken to refugee camp.
04 Sep 2015 06:51 GMT | Humanitarian crises, Refugees, Human Rights, Hungary, Europe

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that his country does not want to take in large numbers of Muslims, in defence of Hungary's response to the surge in refugees trying to enter the country.

"I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country," Orban told journalists outside the EU headquarters at Brussels.

"We do not like the consequences," he said, referring to the country's 150-year history of Ottoman rule during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Orban said those fleeing conflict in countries such as Syria should not try to cross into Hungary, as he defended the country's decision to erect a fence along its border.

"Please don't come... It's risky to come. We can't guarantee that you will be accepted," Orban said in Brussels, adding that it would not be humane or morally right to "falsify" people's dreams.


Refugees detained on Austria-Hungary border
"We Hungarians are full of fear, people in Europe are full of fear because they see that the European leaders, among them the prime ministers, are not able to control the situation," Orban said.

His comments came as refugees who boarded a train bound for the Austrian border clashed with Hungarian police as they were forcefully unloaded and taken to a refugee camp.

Clinging to railway tracks

Thousands of refugees had been sleeping rough outside the Budapest train station as police blocked them from entering for two days.

After they were eventually let in on Thursday morning, a packed train departed bound for Sopron, a town near the Austrian border.


But Hungarian police stopped the train before its destination, with police forcing refugees off and directing them onto buses to take them to a refugee camp, state news agency MTI reported.

Some families clung to railway tracks after trying to run away from police.

About 50 riot police were lined up as a replacement train allowed non-refugee passengers to continue their journey, Reuters reported.

Orban's chief of staff said police would stick to the EU's Schengen rules and make all checks needed on refugees travelling on domestic trains towards the country's western border.

Hungary has been widely criticised for its way of handling the flow of refugees to Europe.

A fence on the border with Serbia is one of several measures under way to make it more difficult for refugees to enter and stay in Hungary. The government is also tightening asylum laws, introducing penalties for illegal border-crossing, and planning to close permanent refugee camps.

EU President Donald Tusk, meanwhile, warned that divisions between western member states and their newer eastern partners were complicating efforts to solve the deepening refugee crisis.

"There is a divide ... between the east and the west of the EU. Some member states are thinking about containing the wave of migration, symbolised by the Hungarian [border] fence," Tusk said.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/refugees-hungary-train-station-150903064140564.html

I agree with this.. Their fellow Arabian countries reject them, they will come to another man's land and try to force and compel you to practice, respect, obey their religion and traditions. Rubbish. Do with them as u please

Shebi wise people are trying to protect their country against fanatics, people are blaming them.

The fear of terrorism is the begining of wisdom

send them back to Islamabad

They should send some to Nigeria

The fear of Jihad is the beginning of wisdom

Solution is only one.

The world should restore peace in syria and organise free and fair election.

Better, terrorist.

fear north!

Good na so dem dey start invading..make one of them gateman and in d next few days u go see 10 more

They have not committed any offence. Nobody can accommodate a guest at the detriment of their own country's peace. What ever reasons that their Arab brothers could not accommodate them should also extend to the European.
It is really sad the embarrassment the arabs have brought to the muslims.

Prevention is better than cure
Doubt me?..... Take a trip to IslamaBAD

Any well meaning. Country will close its door against muslim !! They bring nothing but DEATH I read there verses in quran and I Realized that this killings Is justified by there quran! Kill kill kill kill every were in the Verses ! OH lord when we get biafra we will build hightech fences in our boarders to keep them almajiri away! Any country with out muslims is peaceful! The. Your research

They are clearly the problem of this world

Shame on SE Europe!!
I can't believe that after the trauma of almost 40 decades of Ottoman rule,they'd still think of allowing Muslims in

Well said prime minister!! That man has foresight!! Take them in and in a decade or two they will start demanding the imposition of sharia law in hungary

The hungarian PM is deceiving himself and should get ready to accept the pluscachange typical of Islam and its growth.

Pls send some to Nigeria. Nawao Nigeria and fanatics

But why are they not rushing to the Arab countries? And they are the same faith

This guy dn fyn trouble ISIS qo soon kidnap one Hungarian burn am alive upload d video 4 YouTube

I really don't understand why the rich Arab states can't help the refugees. Why are they not going to Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar etc? Why risk dying in the ocean in a bid to cross to Europe which shares no affinity with them? Christian Syrians probably see Europe as their beacon of hope but the Muslims i think will fare better in familiar territory with similar culture.

It's really sad that there's so much turmoil generating this massive displacement of people.