{"id":5430,"date":"2017-11-06T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T09:29:07","slug":"they-will-be-no-mosques-in-hungary-said-a-hungarian-fidesz-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2017\/11\/06\/they-will-be-no-mosques-in-hungary-said-a-hungarian-fidesz-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey will be no mosques in Hungary\u201d said a Hungarian Fidesz MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary \u2013 Hungarian Fidesz MP Gergely Guly\u00e1s declared that \u201cthere will be no mosques in Hungary\u201d, and argued that \u201cfrom the perspective of our own security, mosques would have a negative impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Zsolt, the sulphurous political TV show host and well-known pro-Orb\u00e1n columnist received on pro-government television\u00a0Echo TV\u00a0the Fidesz parliamentary delegation leader Gergely Guly\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>While commenting on the recent attack that occurred in New-York City, Zsolt Bayer praised American President Donald Trump for publicly calling for the death penalty for the alleged attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Gergely Guly\u00e1s agreed with Zsolt Bayer, declaring that \u201cWestern Europe has not done anything against this danger\u2026 Wherever radical Islam raises its head and is allowed to take root, these kinds of acts can occur at any moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bayer concluded regarding Islamic terrorism that \u201cwherever there\u2019s a mosque, there\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d Guly\u00e1s agreed. \u201c<strong>There will be no mosques in Hungary\u2026 There is such an initiative. We can\u2019t change our position on this because it is not just about freedom of cult but also about national security.<\/strong>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian state recognizes the status of Church for fourteen religious groups, of which Muslim groups are not members. Islamic communities, however, are organized into two groups recognized by the state. There are currently 22 \u201cmosques\u201d in Hungary, but most of them are just praying rooms. According to the Hungarian online newspaper\u00a0Index.hu, approximately 40.000 Muslims live in Hungary, of which 5 to 10.000 are practicing their faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary \u2013 Hungarian Fidesz MP Gergely Guly\u00e1s declared that \u201cthere will be no mosques in Hungary\u201d, and argued that \u201cfrom the perspective of our own security, mosques would have a negative impact.\u201d Bayer Zsolt, the sulphurous political TV show host and well-known pro-Orb\u00e1n columnist received on pro-government television\u00a0Echo TV\u00a0the Fidesz parliamentary delegation leader Gergely Guly\u00e1s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}