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Western Europe’s New Year’s Eve Riots as Seen from Hungary

Dániel Deme 2025.01.03.
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Thousands have been arrested across Europe and North-America after the now regular and much dreaded riots marking the arrival of a new calendar year. Germany is leading the horror statistics, but Britain, Belgium or France are not far behind. „Experts” quote complex social problems as the cause of these shameful and violent attacks on the rule-of-law and come up with mind boggling solutions to solve the issue. As varied these suggested solutions are, they have two common traits: they would be immensely expensive, and they do not work.

Stern-looking academics and sociology experts appear on television screens preparing us for what is now inescapably coming to once peaceful and cheerful festive Western European streets on New Year’s Eve. They are presenting complex theories about why this omnipresent violence is not only inevitable, but indeed a necessary feature of our modern societies. There is no point in trying to repeat these ludicrous constructs that are more often than not geared towards ascribing guilt to the majority society. But looking at the entire phenomenon from Hungary, the entire debate, however sophisticated it may formally sound, seems fundamentally absurd.

Hungary has seen its own share of injuries caused by fireworks, sadly there was even a fatality this year, but no mass riots in town centers, no ultra-violent clashes with police, no burning of cars or deliberately shooting fireworks into crowds of people, nor mass-sexual assaults. So what is the difference? Simply put, we have no masses of young males with migration background from countries with Islamic cultures. The answer may sound simplistic, but the principle of Occam’s razor will apply here, according to which an explanation with the smallest number of entities or elements is usually preferable to more complex ones. In other words, simple is best.

Even the left-wing media, or establishment social research institutes in Germany, that are now considered by many to be a benchmark for disingenuous obfuscation of the consequences of uncontrolled mass migration, have admitted that this is a phenomenon directly linked to migrant communities. Yet the conclusion they draw always leads away from the real solution. Instead of effective measures, they demand more housing, more social workers, tightening gun laws, etc. “Socio-spatial integration”, to use the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s words. All the while, the first thing that springs to mind for the vast majority of Hungarians looking at news about the anarchy on Western Europe’s streets is: thank heavens we have managed to control our borders. And they are probably right. Many Hungarians understand that this is not a social problem, it is a political one.

The orgy of destruction that started pre-Christmas with the destruction of public Christmas trees, vandalism in Churches, Islamist riots masquerading as Pro-Palestinian demonstrations, have culminated in the dreadful scenes on New Year’s Eve. Viewing the entire phenomenon from Hungary, I do not see disadvantaged youth, people with housing problems, or a lack of cultural opportunities. What I see are vast parallel societies with radical Islamist views, lack of common decency, lack of respect for women, no regard for the rule of law or authority. What I see during the riots in European streets is a test run for a violent take-over of once democratic societies, intimidation and targeted destruction of the fabric of our Judeo-Christian culture and civic values. And the way official reaction to burning Western-European streets appeared to many of us here in Hungary is one where cynical failed politicians are covering up the direct result of their disastrous policy decisions with the help of an activist legacy media.

Hungary itself has been given a New Year’s present from the very politicians who have caused the collapse of law and order in Europe in the form of a 1 billion Euro deduction from EU funds. Apparently because of rule-of-law violations. This, in addition to the EUR 200 million fine and EUR 1 million daily fine for not opening our borders to those who are now marching through Christmas markets shouting support for terror groups or driving cars into crowds of innocent shoppers. This is what Europe has become, and who can blame our Western European friends if they are now increasingly reluctant to admit reality. They would have to admit the fact that they have run out of options and passed the point of no return.

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