In the first five weeks of 2017, 9931`persons came to Europe. His memoirs were later published to become one of the first accounts about Central Europe in the Islamic world. Parlamentn listy, a hugely popular Czech website,[32] owned by Ivo Valenta, member of the Upper House of Czech Parliament and a gambling oligarch, has been in the forefront of disseminating racist, anti-refugee and anti-Muslim fake news. An overwhelming majority of the German population of Czechoslovakia was deported to Germany after 1945, and the post-1948 communist regime in Czechoslovakia intensely cultivated the notion of the evil, primarily German, foreigner.
Ignoruju to. Broadcast on Regionln televize.cz from 10th February 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzyOxtqHH-o, [25] Head of UNICEF Czech Republic: We are swamped by vicious emails from Czech citizens.
Jan ulk, Current Czech opinion of the pre-1989 and post-1989 regimes: remarkable levels of dissatisfaction. In: N. Hayoz, L. Jesien, L. and D. Koleva, (eds.) Traditionally, the influence of Islam on the culture of Czech lands has been small. Pod skoro dn. He says he became tired of changing perceptions toward Muslims and how a significant number of Czech people completely misunderstood Islam: This pressure forced me to leave the Czech Republic and move to France. 1193-1219. See http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration, [3] Dyke: BBC is hideously white. At the beginning of the Czech National Revival, Czech patriots abandoned the traditional concept of territorial nationality and replaced it with linguistic nationality, meaning that only those individuals who spoke native Czech could be regarded as members of the nation. Fifth Monitoring Cycle. Britsk listy, 20th August, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/83404.html, [28] Bohumil Kartous, Realita vednch dn aneb ivot na toxickm medilnm tripu. A few hundred Muslims are Czech converts. The mosque property has been damaged a few times and worshippers have been verbally abused. Bohumil Kartous was present recently at a party on the occasion of the opening of a new restaurant in an East Bohemian town. For many people, the Office of the President conferred high honor also on playwright Vclav Havel, the first post-communist holder of this post, and on his successors Vclav Klaus and Milo Zeman. [20] In July 2015, an anti-immigration demonstration took place in Prague where activists carried gallows and nooses for the traitors of our nation[21] who would like to help refugees. A law 1912 by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy recognised Islam as a "state religion" and officially allowed its presence in what is now the Czech Republic. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Hundreds of millions of Africans are on their way here. Nenvist k echm, obludnost, zrada, sebevrada, kolaboranti, bordel, populistick blboly. 
Britsk listy, 10th January 2017. http://blisty.cz/art/85229.html, [31] Joachim Sundell, Mattias Dellert, Rebecca Haimi, Sant och falskt i Janouch-debatten. Philipp Ther, Ana Siljak,Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Although Parlamentn listy was created quite independently in the Czech Republic, it is quite similar to Breitbart News and it in fact often now copies material from the American website. Britsk listy, 15th February 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81111.html, [26] Czech Deputy PM Babi: I reject the EU refugee quotas. For this, he added the Czechs need freedom of expression. During the event, called The Occupation of Prague - Event in Support of Democracy, members of the anti-Islamic Martin Konvicka Initiative (IMK) also performed a mock beheading. Only 4 percent of Czechs were of the opinion that the Czech Republic should accept the refugees permanently. At times the issue can be as trivial as allowing halal slaughter or hijab-clad girls in schools. Zrdci nroda jim pomhaj, aby ns vyhubili jako bloi indiny. Worried, Swedish commentators have been asking what Sweden could be doing against the construction of a false image of their country abroad.
ECRI demanded that Czech law should be changed so that politicians like Zeman who spread islamophobia and racism can be prosecuted. Here are a few examples of Parlamentn listy headlines: Allhu Akbar! For ordinary Sri Lankans every day is a battle. Anti-immigration activists Martin Konvika and Tomio Okamura tried to stand in the Czech regional elections in the autumn of 2016, but they failed to win substantial electoral support.
See http://blisty.cz/art/80046.html and http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php, [2] Research suggests that hostile reaction towards refugees and immigrants is common throughout Europe, but the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are the most hostile. The national communities of the post-communist countries of Central Europe are relatively small.
Milo Mendel, Bronislav Ostansk, Tom Rataj, This page was last edited on 29 May 2022, at 09:05. Those individuals who do not speak Czech tend to be, implicitly, stripped of their intrinsically human qualities. One particularly potent myth was unmasked recently when it created a nationwide scandal in Sweden. There are an estimated 20,000 Muslims in the Czech Republic, representing 0.2% of the country's population. According to the 2010 census, there are around 3500 Muslims in the Czech Republic (less than 0.1% of country's population), compared to 495 in 1991. Harvard Cold War studies book series, 2001. Huawei threatens to sue Czech Republic over espionage allegations, Czech 'Donald Trump' meets real Donald Trump, Slovaks remember murdered journalist Jan Kuciak, Slavic carnival wraps up in Czech Republic with costumes and celebrations, Czech President Zeman jokes about murdering journalists. Princeton University Press, 2000. A commentator has recently noticed that a certain amount of conformism in Czech society may be contributing to the spreading of ingrained anti-refugee attitudes.
The traitors of the Czech nation are helping them to exterminate us like the whites have exterminated the Red Indians. Parlamentn listy, 1st September, 2015. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/poslanecka-snemovna/To-je-smrtici-prijdou-krvave-tragedie-Nenavist-k-Cechum-obludnost-zrada-sebevrazda-kolaboranti-bordel-populisticke-blaboly-Zemanuv-projev-o-uprchlicich-ma-vaznou-dohru-397424, [36] dn muslimy ivit nebudeme. A piece of pork was hung on the mosques front door and pig bones were scattered around its entrance in 2013. Parlamentn listy, 3rd September, 2015. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Sociolog-Petr-Hampl-S-uprchliky-mame-pravo-jednat-jako-s-agresory-Zradci-naroda-jim-pomahaji-aby-nas-vyhubili-jako-belosi-indiany-Skutecni-neonaciste-jsou-Sabatova-a-Dienstbier-397723, [35] To je smrtc, pijdou krvav tragdie. [37], Zhirinovsky: I support Trump. The multicultural nature of the Central European nations was lost at the end of World War II when, with the consent of the Allies, millions of Germans living on the territory of these nations were moved to Germany, those Central European Jews who had survived the holocaust moved to Israel, and other population transfers created ethnically pure, homogeneous national communities. Since the beginning of the European refugee crisis, President Zeman has thus become a major catalyst for the construction of a mendacious anti-refugee narrative in the Czech Republic. Daniel Howden from the organization Refugees Deeply argues[29] that anti-refugee attitudes are artificially constructed in the countries of Central Europe by the media primarily for commercial reasons. Otherwise well kill you. On January 4, racist and bigoted graffiti was discovered on the walls of a mosque in Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city. According to a 2015opinion poll[18] 72.3 percent of Czechs like Zeman[19] for his anti-refugee statements. "To be honest, in academic institutes, there is no islamophobia. In October 2015, he said during a visit to a small Czech town, Unfaithful women will be stoned, thieves hands will be cut off and we will be deprived of the beauty of women because they will have to have their faces covered. Hooligans, criminals[38].
14th December, 2016. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/12/14/the-manufacture-of-hatred-scapegoating-refugees-in-central-europe, [30] Dagens Nyheter: A popular Czech video website has published fake news about Sweden. Zeman has been criticized[15]for his statements by Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and was also singled out[16] in a report by the Council of Europes European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. A significant and influential part are the middle-class people of Egyptian, Syrian and other Middle Eastern ancestries (typically those who studied in Czechoslovakia and decided to stay). The small and medium-sized nations of Central Europe often feel that during the course of history they have been violated by larger powers, and so they often look at the world beyond its borders with suspicion.
The Czech (and generally Slavonic) expression for a German is Nmec. The expression is derived from the adjective nm, mute, dumb., These historical hang-ups seem to have played an important role in contemporary politics in the Czech Republic. Howden records the well-known scandal when it transpired from a recording, secretly made at an editorial meeting that the top executives of the Czech private TV station Prima openly ordered their journalists systematically to demonize refugees in its news and current affairs programs. The Conversation, 15th July, 2015. https://theconversation.com/far-right-reaches-for-new-extremes-in-the-czech-republic-44496, [22] Prague Municipal Authority: Bringing a set of gallows to a demonstration cannot be seen as threatening behaviour. Long before the arrival of Donald Trump on the US political scene, Zeman started cleverly to manipulate the frustration of the Czech have-nots in order to strengthen his political position.
Datov urnalistika, 8th January, 2015. http://www.datovazurnalistika.cz/kolik-bude-v-cesku-muslimu-za-15-let-porad-skoro-zadni/, [5] V Lisabonu chci zruky proti prolomen Beneovch dekret, potvrdil Klaus. In 2004 Islam was officially registered in the Czech Republic: the community is thus eligible to obtain funds from the state. Photo:Syrian refugees families,Orlok|Shutterstock Most mainstream Czech politicians make similar statements. Britsk listy, 6th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79745.html, [12] Czech President Milo Zeman sings the national anthem with a proponent of concentration camps and gas chambers for muslims. Milo Zemans victory in the 2013 presidential race meant a victory for populism. Jan ulk is a journalist and academic who holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. I and my Muslim colleagues did not face any kind of hate related to Islam in academia. Televize Nova, 14th October, 2015. tn.nova.cz/clanek/zeman-pobouril-radu-evropy-siri-v-cesku-protiislamske-nalady.html, [18] Hodnocen Miloe Zemana. But the Czech Justice Ministry said[17] that no such changes would be introduced. Once a girl was thrown off a bus because another passenger thought she was wearing a headscarf. Could the EU break up over energy shortages? The first community (Muslimsk nboensk obce pro eskoslovensko) was established in 1934 and disbanded in 1949. Britsk listy, 17th October, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79464.html, [14] BLUT (UND BODEN?) Rick Fawn, Czech Attitudes Towards the Roma: Expecting More of Havels Country?Europe-Asia Studies, 12/2001, Volume 53, Issue 8, pp. The first documented visit of a person with knowledge of Islam was made (964-965) by brahm ibn Jaqb, a Jewish merchant from then-Muslim Spain. We can see now who it was that committed the attack in Canada[33], Sociologist Petr Hampl: We have the right to deal with the refugees as though they were aggressors. [5], Overview of the role of Islam in Czech Republic, "Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050", Reception of Islam in Early Modern Europe, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_the_Czech_Republic&oldid=1090398718, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. BBC News, 6th January, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1104305.stm, [4] Kolik bude v esku muslim za 15 let? They put up a show called To Mecca with Humour - against Terrorsim and for Democracy and marched around a portable toilet in an attempt to copy Muslim pilgrims taking rounds of the Holy Kaaba. Several Muslim tourists have complained about receiving angry glares and verbal abuse especially if they are visibly Muslim. Hatred of the Czechs, monstrous behaviour, treachery, suicide, collaborators, chaos[35], We will not feed any Muslims. [1] It would appear that a synergy of several historical, cultural, political, and economic factors has created this fiercely hostile reaction.[2]. Defensive nationalism is the main feature of modern day Czechia. The Czech Republic has to accept around 4,300 people seeking asylum, which is about 410 refugees per one million of its population, according to the European Union refugee quota system. Just like in the case of Donald Trump, Zemans democratic mandate and the revered status of the Presidential Office have given his controversial statements credence with many members of the Czech public. Historically, the Czechs have held the office of their President in very high regard. 445-457. Individual Muslims from the late 19th century began to settle in Czech lands after Bosnia became part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.[4]. But this thing again happens in some specific groups. Nevertheless, Czech politicians frequently give interviews to the website because of its large readership, thus legitimizing it. Subscribe to our Youtube channel for all latest in-depth, on the ground reporting from around the world. Sussex Academic Press, London and Brighton). [12], Some of Zemans public pronouncements were particularly embarrassing. President Milos Zeman justified the move saying: Our country simply cannot afford to risk terrorist attacks like what occurred in France and Germany. Over many months, the Czech media have been constructing an artificially created image of Sweden as a refugee hell once an affluent and safe country, which has allegedly now become dangerous, impoverished and unsafe due to the fact that in 2015, it accepted many tens of thousands of marauding refugee criminals. A normally well-regarded Czech digital TV channel (DVTV) released an interview with a popular Czech-Swedish writer Kateina Janouchov, who spoke at great length about various allegedly horrifying aspects of the current Swedish refugee hell. All the information in this interview was false, as was pointed out by the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter[30] and by Swedish public service television, who have meticulously debunked all of Janouchovs assertions.
NOTE: The article came from TRT Worlds Eyes on Discrimination (EOD) Centre, which monitors and reports on offences, hate crimes and discrimination on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin and religion, or other related social categories.
During both sieges of Vienna, reconnaissance groups of Ottoman armies reached Moravia. Strong trade links between Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire emerged during the 19th century. The obvious manifestation of this systemic antipathy toward minorities, especially Muslims, is dog-whistle politics. Office of the High Commisioner.
The website is also pro-Russian and anti-EU. An anti-Islamic group called We do not want Islam in the Czech Republic received almost 140,000 likes on Facebook and presented a petition with 145,000 signatures to Czech Parliament, demanding that immigrants should be barred from the Czech Republic.
The whole of the nineteenth century was characterized by nationalist friction between the German-speaking and the Czech-speaking populations on the territory of Bohemia. Although there is a small percentage of the Czech population who actively go out of their way to help refugees stranded in Greece and the other Balkan countries, a majority of the Czech population seems to hate and fear refugees and Muslims.
During the decades of post-war communist rule, the Central European countries were cut off from social and political developments in Western Europe and unlike the West European nations, they did not experience immigration. Why is the resumption of Ukraines grain export so essential? It's only in public. [31] The interview caused a nationwide scandal in Sweden and even the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lfven made a comment about it. The government of Czechia refused to comply with the EU-designated quota, only taking 12 refugees. They hate Muslims. Britsk listy, 12th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79825.html, [20] Jan ulk, Anti-immigrant walls and racist tweets: the refugee crisis in Central Europe. Rick Fawn, Czech Attitudes Towards the Roma: Expecting More of Havels Country?, http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php, http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1104305.stm, http://www.datovazurnalistika.cz/kolik-bude-v-cesku-muslimu-za-15-let-porad-skoro-zadni/, http://zpravy.idnes.cz/v-lisabonu-chci-zaruky-proti-prolomeni-benesovych-dekretu-potvrdil-klaus-1ti-/domaci.aspx?c=A091009_103038_domaci_adb, https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/290783-prezidentska-kampan-se-zvrhla-v-hadku-o-dekrety.html, https://theconversation.com/meet-milos-zeman-the-czech-republics-answer-to-donald-trump-52036, http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/01/eu-migrant-crisis-refugees-tsunami-czech_n_8069350.html?1441098945&, http://www.ohchr.org/en/newsevents/pages/displaynews.aspx?newsid=16632&langid=e, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Czech_Republic/CZE-CbC-V-2015-035-ENG.pdf, http://www.sanep.cz/pruzkumy/hodnoceni-milose-zemana-publikovano-12-11-2015/, https://theconversation.com/anti-immigrant-walls-and-racist-tweets-the-refugee-crisis-in-central-europe-43665, https://theconversation.com/far-right-reaches-for-new-extremes-in-the-czech-republic-44496, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzyOxtqHH-o, https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/12/14/the-manufacture-of-hatred-scapegoating-refugees-in-central-europe, http://www.svt.se/kultur/medier/sant-och-falskt-i-janouch-debatten, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/Allahu-Akbar-rvali-pry-kdyz-kosili-lidi-v-mesite-Utok-v-Kanade-se-vybarvuje-473433, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Sociolog-Petr-Hampl-S-uprchliky-mame-pravo-jednat-jako-s-agresory-Zradci-naroda-jim-pomahaji-aby-nas-vyhubili-jako-belosi-indiany-Skutecni-neonaciste-jsou-Sabatova-a-Dienstbier-397723, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/poslanecka-snemovna/To-je-smrtici-prijdou-krvave-tragedie-Nenavist-k-Cechum-obludnost-zrada-sebevrazda-kolaboranti-bordel-populisticke-blaboly-Zemanuv-projev-o-uprchlicich-ma-vaznou-dohru-397424, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Zadne-muslimy-zivit-nebudeme-Republika-je-rozkradena-vse-v-cizich-rukach-promlouva-general-valecny-hrdina-nositel-Radu-Bileho-lva-473339, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/Hrozi-ze-islamiste-zopakuji-Leninovu-revoluci-z-roku-1917-Jaroslav-Basta-rozebira-jak-se-jim-to-povede-473294, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/VIDEO-Zirinovskij-Podporuji-Trumpa-zavrit-hranice-Stovky-milionu-Africanu-na-ceste-Chuligani-kriminalnici-A-vy-pata-kolono-co-vas-platil-Obama-473559.
Stovky milion Afrian na cest.
How US plans to counter hypersonic missiles from space, Show people, places and other topics in this story. Novinky, 21st January, 2013. https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/290783-prezidentska-kampan-se-zvrhla-v-hadku-o-dekrety.html, [7] Jan ulk, Meet Milo Zeman the Czech Republics answer to Donald Trump. In one particular incident DSSS members hosted a lingerie fashion show with the aim of teaching "Western values" to Muslims.
So if you dont speak Czech, you are a suspect and in worst case scenarios an evil foreigner.
It is the purpose of this article to examine the mechanisms which have created a strong atmosphere of xenophobia and islamophobia in one of the Central European countries the Czech Republic, in spite of the fact that only some 11,000 Muslims live in that country[4] and almost no refugees have been accepted there. 22nd October, 2015. http://www.ohchr.org/en/newsevents/pages/displaynews.aspx?newsid=16632&langid=e, [16] ECRI Report on the Czech Republic. IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: Head of President Zemans Foreign Department compares the refugees to dangerous alien blood. The communist era and ongoing secularisation has left just 20 percent of the population with formal affiliation to any religion. The gathering had suddenly turned into an NSDAP meeting, says the commentator. These frictions continued during the times of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, when because of the 1929 Wall Street crash the heavily industrialized German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia were seriously affected by unemployment. Close the borders!
Just as in several other Central European countries, the current popular mood in the Czech Republic is destabilizing and worrying. There will be bloody tragedies. All the historical hang-ups discussed in the first part of this article, seem to have merged with frustration felt by many people who have been left behind by the current capitalist regime in the Czech Republic and who let themselves to be emotionally manipulated into fearing a non-existent danger. These people have therefore assumed a hostile attitude towards the pro-Western media and the pro-Western political elites in their countries, often disdaining western democratic values. From the beginning of the 2015 European refugee crisis, Zeman seems to have distilled all the above mentioned historical attitudes of the Czechs into a potent xenophobic anti-refugee and anti-immigrant mixture. The main reason for the non-existence of a strong anti-immigration party in the Czech Republic seems to be, however, that all the mainstream parties have included anti-refugee and anti-immigration rhetoric in their public statements. [28] No one thought of rejecting the label. In 2016, a group called Block Against Islam gathered in traditional Muslim garbs outside the Saudi Embassy in Prague. United Nation Human Rights. Skuten neonacist jsou abatov a Dienstbier. In some Central European countries, this has led recently to the election of semi-authoritarian governments (Poland, Hungary). At the next stop, he got off.". 6 percent of the Czech population. The smouldering bigotry against Muslims took a brazen turn as refugees from war-affected Middle Eastern countries arrived in ones and twos in eastern and central Europe from 2015 onwards. tok v Kanad se vybarvuje. Britsk listy, 15th December 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/84930.html, [29] Daniel Howden, The Manufacture of Hatred: Scapegoating Refugees in Central Europe. Hijabi women are often found at the receiving end. Duan Hamk,Writers against rulers. The linguistic definition of Czechness has led to the exclusion of the Roma community from the Czech nation and to racist attitudes towards the Roma as representatives of the other. At the same time, distrust towards the Germans survives in a section of the population. To this very day, the Czechs define their identity and nationality by means of their language: you are Czech only if you speak the Czech language fluently. [3] Other Muslims have also come from Bosnia-Herzegovina (early 1990s), Kosovo (late 1990s) and former countries of Soviet Union (mostly from Caucasus region, from the late 1990s until the present).
Britsk listy, 3rd August, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/83216.html, [27] Prior to Angela Merkels visit to Prague, Czech politicians have condemned her pro-refugee policy. About 10.3 percent practise the Catholic branch of Christianity, 0.8 percent are protestants, and nine percent follow other faiths. Though the minority keeps a low profile, isolated controversies arise from time to time. But the Czech media constantly frightened the Czech public showing Muslims and refugees as violent criminals. [23] The Czech police are reluctant to investigate these incidents. In 1998 the first mosque was opened, in Brno [2] and a year later another, in the capital, Prague [3]. I can imagine that in some cases this might be beneficial, though.[13], Zemans anti-Muslim and anti-refugee statements have been enhanced by the officers of the Czech Presidential Office; in particular by his Press Spokesperson Ji Ovek. They are trying to subjugate Europe. Heidrun Dolezel, Vertreibung und Bene-Dekrete in tschechischen Schulbchern seit 1989. Pretty much the entire eastern Europe is very racist and anti-Muslim," said Manzoor Hussain Sahi, a 36-year-old Pakistani national who spent three years in Prague as a student. By accepting migrants we would create fertile ground for barbaric attacks.. This site uses cookies. The Czech media do seem to be constructing an artificial anti-refugee narrative and do seem to be reinforcing one another while doing so. "People are very racist in Brno and there is always some incident taking place there, especially with regards to the mosque or Muslims. Rowman & Littlefield. They really feel afraid by seeing a Muslim standing next to them. Derek Sayer, Alena Sayer, The coasts of Bohemia: a Czech history.
An attempt to set up a new community in 1968 failed. The far-right groups have become emboldened with time to openly mock Muslims and directly attack their faith. Britsk listy, 5th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79737.html, [11] Czech President Milo Zeman: The refugees are criminals. A strongly hostile attitude to Muslims and refugees. The extreme hatred against Muslims and refugees, felt by many in the Czech Republic, seems to be a bit of a psychological conundrum. A systematic construction of a false narrative. [6]. The Czech Human Rights Ombudsman, she is the real Neo-Nazi[34], This is death. The Conversation, 9th December, 2015. https://theconversation.com/meet-milos-zeman-the-czech-republics-answer-to-donald-trump-52036, [8] Aubrey Allegretti , Czech President Milo Zeman Says Refugees Are Like A Tsunami That Will Kill Him. 12th November, 2015. http://www.sanep.cz/pruzkumy/hodnoceni-milose-zemana-publikovano-12-11-2015/, [19] Opinion poll: 72,3 per cent of Czechs like President Zeman for his anti-refugee hate speech. Parlamentn listy, 30th January 2017. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Zadne-muslimy-zivit-nebudeme-Republika-je-rozkradena-vse-v-cizich-rukach-promlouva-general-valecny-hrdina-nositel-Radu-Bileho-lva-473339, [37] Hroz, e islamist zopakuj Leninovu revoluci z roku 1917. Chad Carl Bryant,Prague in black: Nazi rule and Czech nationalism. It is a part of the Czech national mythology that after the defeat of a Protestant uprising against a Habsburg emperor at the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, the Czech lands were subjugated by foreign marauders and suffered three hundred years of an Age of Darkness, until the establishment of the independent democratic Czechoslovak Republic after World War I in 1918. These fears were brilliantly discussed by the writer Milan Kundera in his speech given to the June 1967 Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers, entitled On the Non-Self-Evidence of the existence of the Czech nation. In this speech, Kundera argued that the continued existence of the Czech nation could only be assured if the nation is able to make a unique cultural contribution on the world stage. Britsk listy, 25th October, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79568.html, [15] Zeid urges Czech Republic to stop detention of migrants and refugees. Later on the Prague Municipal Authority decreed Bringing a set of gallows to a demonstration cannot be seen as threatening behavior.[22] Occasionally, people have been assaulted in public for their pro-refugee views. 461-494. Britsk listy, 4th March, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81390.html, [23] An experience of a Czech politician on public transport: This is the traitor who invites muslims to rape our Czech women! Britsk listy, 4th March 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81402.html, [24] Rozhovor Britskch list 96. Needless to say, the semi-authoritarian, anti-Western, and xenophobic and Islamophobic attitudes constitute a challenge to the stability of the European Union. While opinion polls in the Czech Republic consistently indicate that up to 80 percent of the Czech population hold anti-refugee attitudes, Howden quotes the analysis of the Prague sociologist Daniel Prokop, who assembled a representative group of Czechs and mapped out their attitudes to refugees against the twin axes of attitude and importance.
Do nothing, because if they die, we will have more and if they die, they will not turn into future refugees who will swamp Europe, said Pavla Gomba in the Czech TV program 168 hours.
Ignoruju to. Broadcast on Regionln televize.cz from 10th February 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzyOxtqHH-o, [25] Head of UNICEF Czech Republic: We are swamped by vicious emails from Czech citizens.
Jan ulk, Current Czech opinion of the pre-1989 and post-1989 regimes: remarkable levels of dissatisfaction. In: N. Hayoz, L. Jesien, L. and D. Koleva, (eds.) Traditionally, the influence of Islam on the culture of Czech lands has been small. Pod skoro dn. He says he became tired of changing perceptions toward Muslims and how a significant number of Czech people completely misunderstood Islam: This pressure forced me to leave the Czech Republic and move to France. 1193-1219. See http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration, [3] Dyke: BBC is hideously white. At the beginning of the Czech National Revival, Czech patriots abandoned the traditional concept of territorial nationality and replaced it with linguistic nationality, meaning that only those individuals who spoke native Czech could be regarded as members of the nation. Fifth Monitoring Cycle. Britsk listy, 20th August, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/83404.html, [28] Bohumil Kartous, Realita vednch dn aneb ivot na toxickm medilnm tripu. A few hundred Muslims are Czech converts. The mosque property has been damaged a few times and worshippers have been verbally abused. Bohumil Kartous was present recently at a party on the occasion of the opening of a new restaurant in an East Bohemian town. For many people, the Office of the President conferred high honor also on playwright Vclav Havel, the first post-communist holder of this post, and on his successors Vclav Klaus and Milo Zeman. [20] In July 2015, an anti-immigration demonstration took place in Prague where activists carried gallows and nooses for the traitors of our nation[21] who would like to help refugees. A law 1912 by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy recognised Islam as a "state religion" and officially allowed its presence in what is now the Czech Republic. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Hundreds of millions of Africans are on their way here. Nenvist k echm, obludnost, zrada, sebevrada, kolaboranti, bordel, populistick blboly. Britsk listy, 10th January 2017. http://blisty.cz/art/85229.html, [31] Joachim Sundell, Mattias Dellert, Rebecca Haimi, Sant och falskt i Janouch-debatten. Philipp Ther, Ana Siljak,Redrawing nations: ethnic cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Although Parlamentn listy was created quite independently in the Czech Republic, it is quite similar to Breitbart News and it in fact often now copies material from the American website. Britsk listy, 15th February 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81111.html, [26] Czech Deputy PM Babi: I reject the EU refugee quotas. For this, he added the Czechs need freedom of expression. During the event, called The Occupation of Prague - Event in Support of Democracy, members of the anti-Islamic Martin Konvicka Initiative (IMK) also performed a mock beheading. Only 4 percent of Czechs were of the opinion that the Czech Republic should accept the refugees permanently. At times the issue can be as trivial as allowing halal slaughter or hijab-clad girls in schools. Zrdci nroda jim pomhaj, aby ns vyhubili jako bloi indiny. Worried, Swedish commentators have been asking what Sweden could be doing against the construction of a false image of their country abroad.
ECRI demanded that Czech law should be changed so that politicians like Zeman who spread islamophobia and racism can be prosecuted. Here are a few examples of Parlamentn listy headlines: Allhu Akbar! For ordinary Sri Lankans every day is a battle. Anti-immigration activists Martin Konvika and Tomio Okamura tried to stand in the Czech regional elections in the autumn of 2016, but they failed to win substantial electoral support.
See http://blisty.cz/art/80046.html and http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php, [2] Research suggests that hostile reaction towards refugees and immigrants is common throughout Europe, but the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are the most hostile. The national communities of the post-communist countries of Central Europe are relatively small.
Milo Mendel, Bronislav Ostansk, Tom Rataj, This page was last edited on 29 May 2022, at 09:05. Those individuals who do not speak Czech tend to be, implicitly, stripped of their intrinsically human qualities. One particularly potent myth was unmasked recently when it created a nationwide scandal in Sweden. There are an estimated 20,000 Muslims in the Czech Republic, representing 0.2% of the country's population. According to the 2010 census, there are around 3500 Muslims in the Czech Republic (less than 0.1% of country's population), compared to 495 in 1991. Harvard Cold War studies book series, 2001. Huawei threatens to sue Czech Republic over espionage allegations, Czech 'Donald Trump' meets real Donald Trump, Slovaks remember murdered journalist Jan Kuciak, Slavic carnival wraps up in Czech Republic with costumes and celebrations, Czech President Zeman jokes about murdering journalists. Princeton University Press, 2000. A commentator has recently noticed that a certain amount of conformism in Czech society may be contributing to the spreading of ingrained anti-refugee attitudes.
The traitors of the Czech nation are helping them to exterminate us like the whites have exterminated the Red Indians. Parlamentn listy, 1st September, 2015. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/poslanecka-snemovna/To-je-smrtici-prijdou-krvave-tragedie-Nenavist-k-Cechum-obludnost-zrada-sebevrazda-kolaboranti-bordel-populisticke-blaboly-Zemanuv-projev-o-uprchlicich-ma-vaznou-dohru-397424, [36] dn muslimy ivit nebudeme. A piece of pork was hung on the mosques front door and pig bones were scattered around its entrance in 2013. Parlamentn listy, 3rd September, 2015. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Sociolog-Petr-Hampl-S-uprchliky-mame-pravo-jednat-jako-s-agresory-Zradci-naroda-jim-pomahaji-aby-nas-vyhubili-jako-belosi-indiany-Skutecni-neonaciste-jsou-Sabatova-a-Dienstbier-397723, [35] To je smrtc, pijdou krvav tragdie. [37], Zhirinovsky: I support Trump. The multicultural nature of the Central European nations was lost at the end of World War II when, with the consent of the Allies, millions of Germans living on the territory of these nations were moved to Germany, those Central European Jews who had survived the holocaust moved to Israel, and other population transfers created ethnically pure, homogeneous national communities. Since the beginning of the European refugee crisis, President Zeman has thus become a major catalyst for the construction of a mendacious anti-refugee narrative in the Czech Republic. Daniel Howden from the organization Refugees Deeply argues[29] that anti-refugee attitudes are artificially constructed in the countries of Central Europe by the media primarily for commercial reasons. Otherwise well kill you. On January 4, racist and bigoted graffiti was discovered on the walls of a mosque in Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city. According to a 2015opinion poll[18] 72.3 percent of Czechs like Zeman[19] for his anti-refugee statements. "To be honest, in academic institutes, there is no islamophobia. In October 2015, he said during a visit to a small Czech town, Unfaithful women will be stoned, thieves hands will be cut off and we will be deprived of the beauty of women because they will have to have their faces covered. Hooligans, criminals[38]. 14th December, 2016. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/12/14/the-manufacture-of-hatred-scapegoating-refugees-in-central-europe, [30] Dagens Nyheter: A popular Czech video website has published fake news about Sweden. Zeman has been criticized[15]for his statements by Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and was also singled out[16] in a report by the Council of Europes European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. A significant and influential part are the middle-class people of Egyptian, Syrian and other Middle Eastern ancestries (typically those who studied in Czechoslovakia and decided to stay). The small and medium-sized nations of Central Europe often feel that during the course of history they have been violated by larger powers, and so they often look at the world beyond its borders with suspicion.
The Czech (and generally Slavonic) expression for a German is Nmec. The expression is derived from the adjective nm, mute, dumb., These historical hang-ups seem to have played an important role in contemporary politics in the Czech Republic. Howden records the well-known scandal when it transpired from a recording, secretly made at an editorial meeting that the top executives of the Czech private TV station Prima openly ordered their journalists systematically to demonize refugees in its news and current affairs programs. The Conversation, 15th July, 2015. https://theconversation.com/far-right-reaches-for-new-extremes-in-the-czech-republic-44496, [22] Prague Municipal Authority: Bringing a set of gallows to a demonstration cannot be seen as threatening behaviour. Long before the arrival of Donald Trump on the US political scene, Zeman started cleverly to manipulate the frustration of the Czech have-nots in order to strengthen his political position.
Datov urnalistika, 8th January, 2015. http://www.datovazurnalistika.cz/kolik-bude-v-cesku-muslimu-za-15-let-porad-skoro-zadni/, [5] V Lisabonu chci zruky proti prolomen Beneovch dekret, potvrdil Klaus. In 2004 Islam was officially registered in the Czech Republic: the community is thus eligible to obtain funds from the state. Photo:Syrian refugees families,Orlok|Shutterstock Most mainstream Czech politicians make similar statements. Britsk listy, 6th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79745.html, [12] Czech President Milo Zeman sings the national anthem with a proponent of concentration camps and gas chambers for muslims. Milo Zemans victory in the 2013 presidential race meant a victory for populism. Jan ulk is a journalist and academic who holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. I and my Muslim colleagues did not face any kind of hate related to Islam in academia. Televize Nova, 14th October, 2015. tn.nova.cz/clanek/zeman-pobouril-radu-evropy-siri-v-cesku-protiislamske-nalady.html, [18] Hodnocen Miloe Zemana. But the Czech Justice Ministry said[17] that no such changes would be introduced. Once a girl was thrown off a bus because another passenger thought she was wearing a headscarf. Could the EU break up over energy shortages? The first community (Muslimsk nboensk obce pro eskoslovensko) was established in 1934 and disbanded in 1949. Britsk listy, 17th October, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79464.html, [14] BLUT (UND BODEN?) Rick Fawn, Czech Attitudes Towards the Roma: Expecting More of Havels Country?Europe-Asia Studies, 12/2001, Volume 53, Issue 8, pp. The first documented visit of a person with knowledge of Islam was made (964-965) by brahm ibn Jaqb, a Jewish merchant from then-Muslim Spain. We can see now who it was that committed the attack in Canada[33], Sociologist Petr Hampl: We have the right to deal with the refugees as though they were aggressors. [5], Overview of the role of Islam in Czech Republic, "Religious Composition by Country, 2010-2050", Reception of Islam in Early Modern Europe, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islam_in_the_Czech_Republic&oldid=1090398718, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. BBC News, 6th January, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1104305.stm, [4] Kolik bude v esku muslim za 15 let? They put up a show called To Mecca with Humour - against Terrorsim and for Democracy and marched around a portable toilet in an attempt to copy Muslim pilgrims taking rounds of the Holy Kaaba. Several Muslim tourists have complained about receiving angry glares and verbal abuse especially if they are visibly Muslim. Hatred of the Czechs, monstrous behaviour, treachery, suicide, collaborators, chaos[35], We will not feed any Muslims. [1] It would appear that a synergy of several historical, cultural, political, and economic factors has created this fiercely hostile reaction.[2]. Defensive nationalism is the main feature of modern day Czechia. The Czech Republic has to accept around 4,300 people seeking asylum, which is about 410 refugees per one million of its population, according to the European Union refugee quota system. Just like in the case of Donald Trump, Zemans democratic mandate and the revered status of the Presidential Office have given his controversial statements credence with many members of the Czech public. Historically, the Czechs have held the office of their President in very high regard. 445-457. Individual Muslims from the late 19th century began to settle in Czech lands after Bosnia became part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.[4]. But this thing again happens in some specific groups. Nevertheless, Czech politicians frequently give interviews to the website because of its large readership, thus legitimizing it. Subscribe to our Youtube channel for all latest in-depth, on the ground reporting from around the world. Sussex Academic Press, London and Brighton). [12], Some of Zemans public pronouncements were particularly embarrassing. President Milos Zeman justified the move saying: Our country simply cannot afford to risk terrorist attacks like what occurred in France and Germany. Over many months, the Czech media have been constructing an artificially created image of Sweden as a refugee hell once an affluent and safe country, which has allegedly now become dangerous, impoverished and unsafe due to the fact that in 2015, it accepted many tens of thousands of marauding refugee criminals. A normally well-regarded Czech digital TV channel (DVTV) released an interview with a popular Czech-Swedish writer Kateina Janouchov, who spoke at great length about various allegedly horrifying aspects of the current Swedish refugee hell. All the information in this interview was false, as was pointed out by the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter[30] and by Swedish public service television, who have meticulously debunked all of Janouchovs assertions.
NOTE: The article came from TRT Worlds Eyes on Discrimination (EOD) Centre, which monitors and reports on offences, hate crimes and discrimination on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin and religion, or other related social categories.
During both sieges of Vienna, reconnaissance groups of Ottoman armies reached Moravia. Strong trade links between Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire emerged during the 19th century. The obvious manifestation of this systemic antipathy toward minorities, especially Muslims, is dog-whistle politics. Office of the High Commisioner.
The website is also pro-Russian and anti-EU. An anti-Islamic group called We do not want Islam in the Czech Republic received almost 140,000 likes on Facebook and presented a petition with 145,000 signatures to Czech Parliament, demanding that immigrants should be barred from the Czech Republic.
The whole of the nineteenth century was characterized by nationalist friction between the German-speaking and the Czech-speaking populations on the territory of Bohemia. Although there is a small percentage of the Czech population who actively go out of their way to help refugees stranded in Greece and the other Balkan countries, a majority of the Czech population seems to hate and fear refugees and Muslims.
During the decades of post-war communist rule, the Central European countries were cut off from social and political developments in Western Europe and unlike the West European nations, they did not experience immigration. Why is the resumption of Ukraines grain export so essential? It's only in public. [31] The interview caused a nationwide scandal in Sweden and even the Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lfven made a comment about it. The government of Czechia refused to comply with the EU-designated quota, only taking 12 refugees. They hate Muslims. Britsk listy, 12th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79825.html, [20] Jan ulk, Anti-immigrant walls and racist tweets: the refugee crisis in Central Europe. Rick Fawn, Czech Attitudes Towards the Roma: Expecting More of Havels Country?, http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php, http://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/what-do-europeans-think-about-muslim-immigration, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1104305.stm, http://www.datovazurnalistika.cz/kolik-bude-v-cesku-muslimu-za-15-let-porad-skoro-zadni/, http://zpravy.idnes.cz/v-lisabonu-chci-zaruky-proti-prolomeni-benesovych-dekretu-potvrdil-klaus-1ti-/domaci.aspx?c=A091009_103038_domaci_adb, https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/290783-prezidentska-kampan-se-zvrhla-v-hadku-o-dekrety.html, https://theconversation.com/meet-milos-zeman-the-czech-republics-answer-to-donald-trump-52036, http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/01/eu-migrant-crisis-refugees-tsunami-czech_n_8069350.html?1441098945&, http://www.ohchr.org/en/newsevents/pages/displaynews.aspx?newsid=16632&langid=e, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/Czech_Republic/CZE-CbC-V-2015-035-ENG.pdf, http://www.sanep.cz/pruzkumy/hodnoceni-milose-zemana-publikovano-12-11-2015/, https://theconversation.com/anti-immigrant-walls-and-racist-tweets-the-refugee-crisis-in-central-europe-43665, https://theconversation.com/far-right-reaches-for-new-extremes-in-the-czech-republic-44496, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzyOxtqHH-o, https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2016/12/14/the-manufacture-of-hatred-scapegoating-refugees-in-central-europe, http://www.svt.se/kultur/medier/sant-och-falskt-i-janouch-debatten, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/Allahu-Akbar-rvali-pry-kdyz-kosili-lidi-v-mesite-Utok-v-Kanade-se-vybarvuje-473433, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Sociolog-Petr-Hampl-S-uprchliky-mame-pravo-jednat-jako-s-agresory-Zradci-naroda-jim-pomahaji-aby-nas-vyhubili-jako-belosi-indiany-Skutecni-neonaciste-jsou-Sabatova-a-Dienstbier-397723, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/politika/poslanecka-snemovna/To-je-smrtici-prijdou-krvave-tragedie-Nenavist-k-Cechum-obludnost-zrada-sebevrazda-kolaboranti-bordel-populisticke-blaboly-Zemanuv-projev-o-uprchlicich-ma-vaznou-dohru-397424, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Zadne-muslimy-zivit-nebudeme-Republika-je-rozkradena-vse-v-cizich-rukach-promlouva-general-valecny-hrdina-nositel-Radu-Bileho-lva-473339, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/Hrozi-ze-islamiste-zopakuji-Leninovu-revoluci-z-roku-1917-Jaroslav-Basta-rozebira-jak-se-jim-to-povede-473294, http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/VIDEO-Zirinovskij-Podporuji-Trumpa-zavrit-hranice-Stovky-milionu-Africanu-na-ceste-Chuligani-kriminalnici-A-vy-pata-kolono-co-vas-platil-Obama-473559.
Stovky milion Afrian na cest.
How US plans to counter hypersonic missiles from space, Show people, places and other topics in this story. Novinky, 21st January, 2013. https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/290783-prezidentska-kampan-se-zvrhla-v-hadku-o-dekrety.html, [7] Jan ulk, Meet Milo Zeman the Czech Republics answer to Donald Trump. In one particular incident DSSS members hosted a lingerie fashion show with the aim of teaching "Western values" to Muslims.
So if you dont speak Czech, you are a suspect and in worst case scenarios an evil foreigner. It is the purpose of this article to examine the mechanisms which have created a strong atmosphere of xenophobia and islamophobia in one of the Central European countries the Czech Republic, in spite of the fact that only some 11,000 Muslims live in that country[4] and almost no refugees have been accepted there. 22nd October, 2015. http://www.ohchr.org/en/newsevents/pages/displaynews.aspx?newsid=16632&langid=e, [16] ECRI Report on the Czech Republic. IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: Head of President Zemans Foreign Department compares the refugees to dangerous alien blood. The communist era and ongoing secularisation has left just 20 percent of the population with formal affiliation to any religion. The gathering had suddenly turned into an NSDAP meeting, says the commentator. These frictions continued during the times of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic, when because of the 1929 Wall Street crash the heavily industrialized German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia were seriously affected by unemployment. Close the borders!
Just as in several other Central European countries, the current popular mood in the Czech Republic is destabilizing and worrying. There will be bloody tragedies. All the historical hang-ups discussed in the first part of this article, seem to have merged with frustration felt by many people who have been left behind by the current capitalist regime in the Czech Republic and who let themselves to be emotionally manipulated into fearing a non-existent danger. These people have therefore assumed a hostile attitude towards the pro-Western media and the pro-Western political elites in their countries, often disdaining western democratic values. From the beginning of the 2015 European refugee crisis, Zeman seems to have distilled all the above mentioned historical attitudes of the Czechs into a potent xenophobic anti-refugee and anti-immigrant mixture. The main reason for the non-existence of a strong anti-immigration party in the Czech Republic seems to be, however, that all the mainstream parties have included anti-refugee and anti-immigration rhetoric in their public statements. [28] No one thought of rejecting the label. In 2016, a group called Block Against Islam gathered in traditional Muslim garbs outside the Saudi Embassy in Prague. United Nation Human Rights. Skuten neonacist jsou abatov a Dienstbier. In some Central European countries, this has led recently to the election of semi-authoritarian governments (Poland, Hungary). At the next stop, he got off.". 6 percent of the Czech population. The smouldering bigotry against Muslims took a brazen turn as refugees from war-affected Middle Eastern countries arrived in ones and twos in eastern and central Europe from 2015 onwards. tok v Kanad se vybarvuje. Britsk listy, 15th December 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/84930.html, [29] Daniel Howden, The Manufacture of Hatred: Scapegoating Refugees in Central Europe. Hijabi women are often found at the receiving end. Duan Hamk,Writers against rulers. The linguistic definition of Czechness has led to the exclusion of the Roma community from the Czech nation and to racist attitudes towards the Roma as representatives of the other. At the same time, distrust towards the Germans survives in a section of the population. To this very day, the Czechs define their identity and nationality by means of their language: you are Czech only if you speak the Czech language fluently. [3] Other Muslims have also come from Bosnia-Herzegovina (early 1990s), Kosovo (late 1990s) and former countries of Soviet Union (mostly from Caucasus region, from the late 1990s until the present).
Britsk listy, 3rd August, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/83216.html, [27] Prior to Angela Merkels visit to Prague, Czech politicians have condemned her pro-refugee policy. About 10.3 percent practise the Catholic branch of Christianity, 0.8 percent are protestants, and nine percent follow other faiths. Though the minority keeps a low profile, isolated controversies arise from time to time. But the Czech media constantly frightened the Czech public showing Muslims and refugees as violent criminals. [23] The Czech police are reluctant to investigate these incidents. In 1998 the first mosque was opened, in Brno [2] and a year later another, in the capital, Prague [3]. I can imagine that in some cases this might be beneficial, though.[13], Zemans anti-Muslim and anti-refugee statements have been enhanced by the officers of the Czech Presidential Office; in particular by his Press Spokesperson Ji Ovek. They are trying to subjugate Europe. Heidrun Dolezel, Vertreibung und Bene-Dekrete in tschechischen Schulbchern seit 1989. Pretty much the entire eastern Europe is very racist and anti-Muslim," said Manzoor Hussain Sahi, a 36-year-old Pakistani national who spent three years in Prague as a student. By accepting migrants we would create fertile ground for barbaric attacks.. This site uses cookies. The Czech media do seem to be constructing an artificial anti-refugee narrative and do seem to be reinforcing one another while doing so. "People are very racist in Brno and there is always some incident taking place there, especially with regards to the mosque or Muslims. Rowman & Littlefield. They really feel afraid by seeing a Muslim standing next to them. Derek Sayer, Alena Sayer, The coasts of Bohemia: a Czech history.
An attempt to set up a new community in 1968 failed. The far-right groups have become emboldened with time to openly mock Muslims and directly attack their faith. Britsk listy, 5th November, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79737.html, [11] Czech President Milo Zeman: The refugees are criminals. A strongly hostile attitude to Muslims and refugees. The extreme hatred against Muslims and refugees, felt by many in the Czech Republic, seems to be a bit of a psychological conundrum. A systematic construction of a false narrative. [6]. The Czech Human Rights Ombudsman, she is the real Neo-Nazi[34], This is death. The Conversation, 9th December, 2015. https://theconversation.com/meet-milos-zeman-the-czech-republics-answer-to-donald-trump-52036, [8] Aubrey Allegretti , Czech President Milo Zeman Says Refugees Are Like A Tsunami That Will Kill Him. 12th November, 2015. http://www.sanep.cz/pruzkumy/hodnoceni-milose-zemana-publikovano-12-11-2015/, [19] Opinion poll: 72,3 per cent of Czechs like President Zeman for his anti-refugee hate speech. Parlamentn listy, 30th January 2017. http://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/rozhovory/Zadne-muslimy-zivit-nebudeme-Republika-je-rozkradena-vse-v-cizich-rukach-promlouva-general-valecny-hrdina-nositel-Radu-Bileho-lva-473339, [37] Hroz, e islamist zopakuj Leninovu revoluci z roku 1917. Chad Carl Bryant,Prague in black: Nazi rule and Czech nationalism. It is a part of the Czech national mythology that after the defeat of a Protestant uprising against a Habsburg emperor at the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620, the Czech lands were subjugated by foreign marauders and suffered three hundred years of an Age of Darkness, until the establishment of the independent democratic Czechoslovak Republic after World War I in 1918. These fears were brilliantly discussed by the writer Milan Kundera in his speech given to the June 1967 Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers, entitled On the Non-Self-Evidence of the existence of the Czech nation. In this speech, Kundera argued that the continued existence of the Czech nation could only be assured if the nation is able to make a unique cultural contribution on the world stage. Britsk listy, 25th October, 2015. http://blisty.cz/art/79568.html, [15] Zeid urges Czech Republic to stop detention of migrants and refugees. Later on the Prague Municipal Authority decreed Bringing a set of gallows to a demonstration cannot be seen as threatening behavior.[22] Occasionally, people have been assaulted in public for their pro-refugee views. 461-494. Britsk listy, 4th March, 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81390.html, [23] An experience of a Czech politician on public transport: This is the traitor who invites muslims to rape our Czech women! Britsk listy, 4th March 2016. http://blisty.cz/art/81402.html, [24] Rozhovor Britskch list 96. Needless to say, the semi-authoritarian, anti-Western, and xenophobic and Islamophobic attitudes constitute a challenge to the stability of the European Union. While opinion polls in the Czech Republic consistently indicate that up to 80 percent of the Czech population hold anti-refugee attitudes, Howden quotes the analysis of the Prague sociologist Daniel Prokop, who assembled a representative group of Czechs and mapped out their attitudes to refugees against the twin axes of attitude and importance.
Do nothing, because if they die, we will have more and if they die, they will not turn into future refugees who will swamp Europe, said Pavla Gomba in the Czech TV program 168 hours.