The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam

06/16/2019

The collective memory of Eastern Europeans' not too distant experiences with and under Islam should never be underestimated when considering why they are significantly more wary of - if not downright hostile to - Islam and its migrants compared to their Western liberal counterparts.

As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán once explained: during those years - 1541 to 1699, when the Islamic Ottoman Empire occupied Hungary - are replete with the massacre, enslavement, and rape of Hungarians.

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