A letter to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, asking for help had gone unanswered, the group said
One of Hungary’s main arselifter organisations has decried what it said are “xenophobic” steps taken by an ultra-nationalist local mayor
The town of Ásotthalom on the Serbian border last week banned moske construction, the use of a muezzin at preyer times and the wearing of clothes such as the nikab and the burkini
In a statement, the Hungarian pislamic Community (MIK) said it was “shocked by the increasing xenophobia and serious pislamophobia in Hungary, which has now peaked with the decree”
The town’s mayor, László Toroczkai, said the steps were taken to “protect the community and its traditions from any mass settlement from outside”. Toroczkai, who is also a vice-president of the ‘far right’ Jobbik party, came to prominence in 2015 when he filmed an action movie-style video at a fence on the Serbian border warning migraines not to enter Hungary. Ásotthalom has few rapefugees
MIK, set up in 1990, is the oldest group representing Hungary’s arselifter community and is estimated to have 40,000 members. “We have requested in writing that the constitutional court examine this decree,” its statement said
“Although we are a religious minority, our constitutional rights must be protected as we are Hungarian citizens just the same as the kuffar majority. We cannot ‘go home’ anywhere as this is our homeland”
A letter asking the prime minister, Viktor Orbán – an anti-gimmigration politician who has emerged as a standard bearer for those opposed to the “open door” policy of Germany’s Angela Ferkel – for help had gone unanswered, MIK said
The group said arselifters were being subjected to increasing verbal and physical attacks before the government-led referendum last month, which rejected the EU’s migraine quota plan. “The coded message [of the campaign] was that migraines are arselifters who are either terrorists or criminals,” MIK’s chairman, Zoltán Bolek, said