Green, Red and Blue: Brussels in Disarray In early January 2017, the major French speaking Newspaper Le Soir in Belgium, together with the public French speaking TV and Radio group RTBF, conducted a survey of Muslims in Belgium entitled “Black, Yellow, Blues”. It must be said that both Le Soir and RTBF are liberal-leftist tendencies and are not known at all to be critical of migration or Muslim communities. Therefore, the published results were surprising and even…

Open Society and Islamism Introduction In its website, The Open Society Foundations defines its mission as working „to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.”[1] Therefore, one can expect that The Open Society Foundations does not support financially or ideologically Islamism. The latter does not believe in open society, nor in vibrant or tolerant democracies, but in the creation of Muslim societies and states, through politics (moderate Islamism) or weapons (radical Islamism). We shall provide…

Migration as an instrument of foreign policy The recent crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands shows how long-term migration could be an instrument of foreign policy. The 2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident, called the Tulip crisis, illustrates the nexus migration establishes between internal politics of a host country (the Netherlands in this case) and foreign policy of the exporting country (Turkey in this case). Exporting-migration countries use their nationals, of first or subsequent migrant generations, to put pressure on host countries, leading thus…

"We would return if someone were to help us repair our house and start over again" Results from field research in Lebanon and Syria Senior researcher at the Migration Research Institute Bianka Speidl (PhD) visited the Middle East between 30 May and 20 June 2017 in order to conduct field research on the situation of the Christian refugees in the area. The field trip constitutes part of a larger fact-finding research project supported by the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources.…

„Their cross is Christianity” Study on the framework of criminal law in relation to atrocities against Christian asylum seekers in Germany Hanga Sántha – Dániel Horváth Published in: Hautzinger, Zoltán (ed.): A migráció bűnügyi hatásai, Magyar Rendészettudományi Társaság – Migrációs Tagozat, Budapest, 2016, ISBN: 978-615-80567-0-0, pp.27-43 Introduction Recently several European countries, host countries by tradition, experienced a rather forgotten side-effect of the large-scale influx of migrants, namely various forms of reliously biased abuse against Christian asylum seekers by fellow Muslim…