Ryszard Czarnecki, Polish member of the European Parliament. ( Image: YouTube)

Despite the threat of sanctions from the European Union (EU), the Polish government has decided to not allow any more Muslim migrants into its country to help reduce the risk of radical Islamic terrorism. 

“We, Poland, are learning from the mistakes of others … and we will not open our doors to Islamic migrants,” said Ryszard Czarnecki, the Polish European Parliament deputy, in early June after the terrorist attack in Manchester, England on May 22. 

Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have refused to take in their designated share of some 160,000 migrants, who apparently are overloading Italy and Greece.  The EU could take the three states to the European Court of Justice, which could impose heavy financial fines on them. 

“Other countries have led to a situation in which those trained on Islamic State territory in Syria, Iraq – young people with French, Belgian, Dutch, British, German citizenship – return to Europe … and somehow [the authorities] were incapable of monitoring them,” Czarnecki said after the attack in Manchester, according to Radio Poland. 

The Manchester attack at an Ariana Grande concert killed 23 adults and children and injured 119 people. 

“We, Poland, are learning from the mistakes of others … and we will not open our doors to Islamic migrants,” said Czarnecki. 

According to Breitbart, Czarnecki also stated:

“When it comes to reducing the chances of Poland being hit by [Islamist] terror attacks, the only proven method is to not allow in Muslim migrants. 

“With regards to Britain, we have already told them on several occasions they need to deport, not tolerate, radical migrants. 

“If a radical Muslim cleric in a mosque calls on his brothers in the faith … to fight the infidels, well, I think that there are grounds to expel such an imam.” 

BBC News stated that, in 2015, the EU voted to redistribute a total of 160,000 refugees from countries with the largest percentages of immigrants, especially Greece and Italy. 

Although Poland initially agreed to the quota, the current administration has rejected it.  Poland has not accepted any of their allotted share of immigrants, according to BBC. 

The Czech Republic and Hungary are also resisting the flood of immigrants, reported the Express.  Express quoted a letter from Polish leaders defending Poland’s refusal:

“In 2016 Poland took in over a million migrants and refugees from Ukraine and the East, thus easing the migrant pressure on other EU countries. 

“We would also like to emphasise that no EU member state has so far fulfilled its commitments stemming from the 2015 relocation decisions. 

“We reiterate our position that migration policy falls within the competence of nation states.” 

Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo. ( Wikipedia)

According to Breitbart, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said that receiving immigrants would be “much worse” than the EU sanctions. 

"Each decision to relocate groups of migrants encourages thousands or millions more at the borders of Europe, to come to Europe, to get on boats and pontoons and risk their lives to reach the European continent," said Polish government spokesman Rafal Bochenek, according to BBC News. 

“Fortunately, Poland does not make these mistakes that other countries have made when it comes to our immigration policy, and so we don’t have these headaches,” said Czarnecki.