Poland's Muslim ban (Daniel Pipes)

[Fishrrman]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/1/how-poland-responds-to-western-europes-illegal-mig/

Poland's Muslim ban
By Daniel Pipes
Sunday, July 1, 2018



WARSAW | On being designated prime minister of Poland last December, Mateusz Morawiecki made the extraordinary statement that he and his government want to “transform [the European Union], to re-Christianize it.”

Struck by this grand vision of Poland’s destiny, and particularly interested in the near-total ban on Muslim migrants (Mr. Morawiecki again: “we will not accept migrants from the Middle East and North Africa in Poland“), I just spent a week in Warsaw to understand why that country differs so sharply from Western Europe and what this implies.

I found a raging debate over the country’s civilizationist (usually and inaccurately known as “far-right”) party, called Law and Justice (PiS, pronounced peace). More precisely, Poles disagree on: Did PiS foment or respond to anti-Muslim feelings?

PiS critics portray it (like other civilizationist parties) as riding imaginary fears and specious emotions to political power.

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[dfwgator]

There have been Muslims in Poland for centuries, they are the Tartars.

[WilliamVA]

There have been Muslims in Poland for centuries, they are the Tartars.

I assume you are referring to "Tatars", they are found in most Eastern European countries, in varying numbers.
Latest indications is world wide, they number 6.9 million, (mostly in Russia, and the former Soviet Republics.
Poland, at last census has 1,916 Tatars.  Less then 1 percent of the population of Poland is Moslem.

[WingNot]

Those pols knows.