Referendum – Demonstration held in front of Parliament
Budapest, October 1 (MTI) – A demonstration organisers named “See the human” was held by civil organisations “for a humane Hungary” in front of Parliament on Friday evening.
Speakers at the event emphasised the importance of peace, solidarity and providing help to those in need, as well as condemning discrimination against refugees.
Árpád Schilling, founder of independent theatre Krétakör, who organised the rally together with actor and director Róbert Alföldi, said many people in this country had been living amid fear and hate, even though they do not know those whom they fear and hate.
Schilling said the question being asked at the Oct. 2 quota referendum was “phony” and therefore the referendum was a “mockery of democracy”. He said Hungary should voluntarily show solidary with the refugees and other countries.
Representatives of the teachers’ movement Tanítanék said the most important questions relating to the referendum had not been raised because any discussion had been rendered impossible by the “hate campaign”.
Several of the speakers quoted from the Bible, from the teachings of Jesus, calling on people to open their hearts to those in need.
Participants at the event filled the area in front of the stage set up in Kossuth Square, near the main entrance of Parliament.
At the end of the demonstration, a collage entitled “Aleppo'”, created by several artists, was set on its way around the world. Its first stop will be Serbia. The event was joined by several the organisations, including the Helsinki Committee, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union and Migration Aid.
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I understand compassion for the refugees, but Hungary has not been able to solve the gypsy problem in a century, how could they hope to take in these people that are culturally completely oposite to hungarian culture ? They would chip away the very fundation on which the host nation was founded. Besides that, it is reported that 50% of hungarian young people live with the parents due to lack of housing or the funds to pay for it.
Yes. The Bible does say to love your neighbor – but it doesn’t state ANYWHEre to take in people who are hell-bent on destroying their new country!!!!
Jesus may have preached tolerance and charity, tell the Muslims that, because a) they want all infidels dead, and b) the Islamic countries surrounding the nations where some of these “refugees” hail from have no interest in helping their fellow Muslims out, arguing that they practice a different form of Islam, and thus would be incompatible with their own. Perhaps the bleeding hearts at this demonstrating would like discuss that further with the U.A.E or the Saudi’s? What about Iran? No? Thought not. What about the African nations where these illegals come from? They’re not asylum seekers, they’re economic migrants. So why not discuss it with those nations instead of labelling your own nation with derogatory names? Self-loathing, liberal idiots. Those bleating about the plight of said economic migrants, should be required to open their own homes, feed, clothe and educated them at their personal expense. Because that would be truly democratic, since they couldn’t force their blind, delusional world-views on the majority. Fools.
Open your heart to those in need…Aren’t there poor and needy Hungarians? Why don’t these demonstrators help their own first. God helps those who help themselves, just another quote that these religious followers will deny or overlook.
Organ should burn down the minaret in Ever also as a sign to those migrants.