Slovak National Party preparing a burqa ban

Monday's attack on a Christmas market in Berlin is a sign that multiculturalism and having an overly open attitude towards other cultures is decreasing security in European countries, Slovak National Party (SNS) leader and Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko told TASR on Tuesday. All this is happening due to the European Union's failure in terms of security, he added. At the same time the SNS leader announced that his party will submit a legislative change to the House in 2017 that will be aimed at introducing a ban on wearing a burqa in public places. One of the most important tasks of the EU was to increase the security of the member states, but there have been masses of migrants who crossed the Union with almost no control, stated the SNS leader. "People without passports and with mobile phones in their hands walked through the EU just like that," he said, adding that this type of failure makes the Union weaker in the eyes of the nation states which subsequently adopt similar decisions as that of the British people who decided to leave the EU in the June referendum. "Following these events we have to get together and be united," said Danko. "Multiculturalism has failed. We have to learn how to be united, increase safety and security, and talk much more about what Islam is and what branches of Islam there are," he added. "Not everyone professing Islam is a terrorist. People cannot be judged according to their religion and skin colour. But security measures identifying a person that inclines to radical expressions of Islam have to be adopted within Europe," said the SNS leader.