A Hungary ruled by right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban doesn’t deserve to produce the next iPhone.
The populist leader has spewed viciously xenophobic and anti-Muslim rhetoric as migrants — many of whom escaped violence in Syria — amass in Hungary, a way station on the route to Germany. This, even as the world reels from the photo of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi’s drowned body, cradled in the arms of a Turkish police officer. The gut-wrenching image only served to illustrate the desperate odds refugees face while trying to escape war at home.
Still, Orban is not alone.
In Greece, masked gunmen attack boats of migrants, attempting to prevent them from reaching the shores of the European Union. Even in Germany, where the government has taken in a record 800,000 refugees, a surge in neo-Nazi attacks on migrants have rocked the country.
Images of people leaving a Hungarian railway station on Friday to travel to Austria on foot demonstrate rich nations’ reluctance to provide safe havens to those lucky enough to set foot in a stable country.
But, lest we forget, one of the men who most dramatically impacted human civilization in the last decade was the son of a Syrian who migrated to the U.S. in 1954.
Perhaps you’ve heard of him. His name was Steve Jobs.
A Syrian migrants' child. pic.twitter.com/sjBxuInpEp
— David Galbraith (@daveg) September 2, 2015
