Don’t mistake me, says Peter Oborne: I think President Trump’s
move to restrict Muslim immigration is “inept” and “morally
wrong”. But I’m still appalled by the hypocritical chorus of
condemnation it has attracted from EU leaders. Many of these
people treat migrants, Muslims in particular, even more “disgracefully”.
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán calls them “a poison” that his
nation “won’t swallow”, and wants to build a “massive” fence to
keep migrants out. He’s far more “bigoted than Trump”, yet there
is no talk of banning him from Brussels. His Fidesz party is in the
same political grouping in the European Parliament as Angela
Merkel’s Christian Democrats, and works alongside it. Nor do EU
leaders have a problem with Slovakian PM Robert Fico, who said
last year that Islam had “no place” in Slovakia and who refuses to
let a single Muslim refugee enter. He “almost makes Trump sound
like an Islington Leftie”. No word of censure, though, from
Jeremy Corbyn, or France’s François Hollande, both in the same
European political group as Fico. Talk about double standards.
