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Hungarians take walking debate to overcome fears of Muslims

  • November 07, 2017

Two boys, partial of a organisation of Hungarians visiting a mosque to learn about a Muslim village in Budapest, demeanour on, Budapest, Hungary Nov 3, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

Two boys, partial of a organisation of Hungarians visiting a mosque to learn about a Muslim village in Budapest, demeanour on, Budapest, Hungary Nov 3, 2017.
PHOTO: REUTERS

BUDAPEST: A walking debate to learn about Budapest’s Muslim village and a mosques has turn renouned with Hungarians as a approach of overcoming fears and reservations amid a strident anti-immigrant debate by a government.

Budapest-based debate user Setamuhely (Budapest Walkshop) runs 30 opposite walks holding visitors around a city’s architectural and informative sites and a Jewish and Muslim communities. “I can contend that this walk, ‘Muslims who live among us’, is a many renouned tour,” pronounced Anna Lenard who runs a business.

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When a Muslim debate was set adult 3 years ago really few people were interested. “Most people have never met a Muslim in their life and this … together with what they hear each day in a media causes a lot of tragedy and highlight in daily life. we consider this is a categorical reason since people are entrance now.”

Most of a people on a four-hour travel have a college degree, and two-thirds are women, she said. Hungary’s Muslim community, estimated to series about 40,000, grew with a emigration predicament of 2015, yet many of them arrived progressing to investigate during Hungarian universities.

Though hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed into Hungary from a Balkans during a rise of a predicament a infancy went on to richer tools of western Europe. Data from consider tank Tarki shows a suit of people deemed to be xenophobic and distressing of unfamiliar immigrants shot adult to 60 per cent this year, rising 19 points from dual years ago.

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About 80 people go on a Muslim debate per month, a organisers said. A standard organisation of around 30 people initial goes to a tiny mosque dark in an aged unit where Muslims come to urge during a time of a visit.

“I am really meddlesome in all multi-cultural and in cultures and religions that live among us,” pronounced Nauszika, a clergyman who did not wish to give her full name. “It is a best approach to remove your fears if we start to ask a one who we (are) fearful of,” combined debate personality Marianna Karman, an Africa consultant who converted to Islam herself.

“These people select to come on these walks since they would like to speak about this problem. They wish to quarrel opposite their fears.” Other points on a debate can embody Muslim food shops and Budapest’s largest mosque, located in a former bureau building.

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1551991/3-hungarians-take-walking-tour-overcome-fears-muslims/

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