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European Lawmakers embrace Ukrainian refugees – but not Muslims

In this time of crisis, religion has proved to be a source of discrimination in the hospitality of refugees.

March 11, 2022
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European Lawmakers embrace Ukrainian refugees - but not Muslims

Human Lives Human Rights: Uncountable lives have been devastated as the Russian-Ukraine war goes on, over 1.7 million refugees have now fled to neighboring countries.

While most Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60 have stayed behind to defend the country, women and children have headed to congested border crossings to seek asylum abroad.

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The UN’s high commissioner for refugees called the situation the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War.

Several European countries have welcomed those fleeing, including over one million in Poland, 180,00 in Hungary, 128,000 in Slovakia, 83,000 in Moldova, and 79,000 in Romania.

Right-wing and populist politicians in Europe have used this opportunity to draw a distinction between Ukrainian refugees and those from elsewhere – namely the Middle East and Muslim countries.

‘These people are Europeans’

Spanish congressman and leader of the far right Vox party Santiago Abascal said that his country should welcome Ukrainian refugees, but not Muslims.

“Anyone can tell the difference between them [Ukranian refugees] and the invasion of young military-aged men of Muslim origin who have launched themselves against European borders in an attempt to destabilize and colonize it,” he told parliament last week.

Some 6,000 refugees are due to arrive in Spain, the country’s minister of inclusion, social security and migration confirmed.

To a loud applause at Congress, Spanish congressman & President of VOX, Santiago Abascal says Europe must accept white Ukrainian refugees but ban all Muslim refugees, calling Muslims “colonizers.”😳

Islamophobia & white supremacy fascism on full display.pic.twitter.com/7PB7hVQiMo

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) March 3, 2022

Meanwhile, in Bulgaria, President Rumen Radev fed into racist stereotypes about refugees from outside of Europe being linked to terrorism and criminality.

“These are not the refugees we are used to… these people are Europeans,” he told journalists, referring to Ukrainians.

“These people are intelligent, they are educated people… This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even terrorists.”

“In other words,” he added, “there is not a single European country now that is afraid of the current wave of refugees.”

Syrian journalist Okba Mohammad said the statement “mixes racism and Islamophobia,” as quoted in the Associated Press.

‘Not a remote part of Africa’

In Greece, ruling party MP Dimitris Kairidis said during a live TV broadcast that “to sit and be slaughtered in the heart of Europe… and if you want to say it cynically, here we are not talking about a massacre in a remote part of Africa with non-religious people, but – to put it quite cynically, I know it sounds politically unorthodox, but unfortunately that also counts – Christians, whites, Europeans, who are from us, come from us”.

Elsewhere, Danish Conservative politician Marcus Knuth tweeted a picture of a document showing the number of third-country nationals (TCNs) stranded in Ukraine, with the figures for Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan circled.

“We will, of course, help all Ukrainians. But we say no to inviting 2,300 Afghans and Syrians, etc. with asylum in Ukraine as well as potentially up to +10,000 more from the Middle East,” he said.

The Danish Conservatives oppose an emergency law to allow Ukranian refugees temporary residence in Denmark. The justification? They don't want Arabs and Muslims who live in Ukraine to also be allowed to come. Despicable racism, plain and simple. https://t.co/Kf20i4lBeZ

— Lukas Slothuus (@lslothuus) March 4, 2022

Denmark has caused a stir after Ukrainian refugees were excluded from its controversial jewellery law that was used against Syrian refugees, among others, and through which valuables were seized from those fleeing conflict.

The tone and rhetoric around the war in Ukraine have been widely criticized, with accusations of discrimination and double standards. Several media outlets were blasted for airing racist tropes, often using comparisons between ‘civilized’ Ukrainians and those fleeing wars in the Middle East.

On Saturday, Palestinian supermodel Bella Hadid shared an Instagram post demanding the same level of backlash against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when it comes to Muslims suffering around the world – including in Palestine and China.

 

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