The following op-ed discusses the demonization of Russia by the European Union as a deflection from looking at the danger of the real enemy — Islam.

Many thanks to CrossWare for translating this piece from Hungarian news portal 888.hu:

The EU wants the Russians as an enemy and not Islam by Tibor Kovács Europe is targeted by a significant portion of Islam as enemy and was attacked by it. The European population reacted like everyone else would: started to be afraid of Islam and started to looking at it as the enemy. But European politicians think hating Islam is not presentable, so they would like redirect it and would love to establish the Russians as the enemy. Good enemy, bad enemy. Putin can be called many things, but not innocent lamb. There are good reasons to hate him and be afraid of him. It is almost too perfect for those would like to create an enemy of him and the Russians. In Europe there are many who afraid of them. Of course it is a cliché to call someone who builds politics on people’s fear a demagogue, but if anyone dared to use this word to describe Merkel, he would be immediately called one. I take the risk to write it down: the European politicians under the leadership of Merkel are using all of their strength and influence to make the Russians look like villains. There is an overwhelming need to redirect and suppress the hostility against Islam, to somehow unite the fragmenting EU, and gain the favor of the Eastern member states. The best way to unite different countries and nations is to find a common enemy, and that would be the Russians. The only rub is: the voters already have an enemy, and they chose it themselves. A avowed version of Islam already formally declared war on all Christian citizens of Europe, and in its own way already started the war; I mean it started killing its enemies with great dedication. The citizens of Europe, after many decades of tolerantly receiving and accepting Muslims, became frightened. They were afraid of them, and more and more openly consider them their enemies. Not all Muslims, only the ones wants to kill them. The problem is that not many killers show signs that they want to murder someone. Totally normal-looking second- or third-generation beer-drinking young Muslim guys killing people and heaping up corpses. So it is much safer to be afraid of all of them and look at them as the enemy rather than make one mistake. This what evolution taught us, and it is hard to deviate from that. For the European politicians this is distasteful, and it is easy to understand why. The Muslims as enemy would be very unpleasant for the EU. The percentage of Muslims in the population is already too high on the continent, and is continuously increasing. They can’t be removed easily, and it is impossible to live in a world where the majority goes about in constant fear of a minority, and the groups mutually hate each other, and the minority from time to time starts to massacre members of the majority. This would sooner or later fragment and destroy the society, and in the long term it would eliminate the EU’s Holy Grail of principles: the tolerance and openness — and with that their entire European Union. EU haters unite! In Mama Merkel’s witch’s brew she cooked up the “solution”: the hatred must be redirected from inside the EU to outside it. They need an external enemy the people can be afraid of, and the hatred of this enemy can unite the EU. The hatred towards the Muslims must be sublimated into a higher level of hatred towards the Russians. Convert it to a hatred which no longer contains racist elements — as Merkel defines it — because being afraid of and hating a real Muslim Arab killer is racist, while hating and being afraid of a possible Russian killer is not. The world is recovered. The multicultural ideology is not damaged.