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Czech Muslims Worry about Islamophobia

Muslim-CzechDDHK News, Ceska - The Muslim Czech community staged a demonstration regarding the government's treatment of them. They were disappointed by the police's treatment which the Muslims considered inappropriate and uneducated.

"We want to convey our anger," said Munneb Al-Rawi, chairman of the Czech Muslim Community Association (UMO). Prague Posts, Sunday (4/5). Rawi added that Muslims should not have to become victims, because the Muslim community will always cooperate with the police if there is a problem.

About 300 Muslims gathered last Friday to give speeches before performing Friday prayers. "We are worried that this development will threaten the Muslim community," he said.

That is why, he continued, the authorities need to explain why the attacks occurred, and why they were too exaggerated. "We warn that this problem will give rise to extremism and anti-Islamic sentiment. In the end there will be Islamophobia, ”he said.

Tarek, an immigrant from Egypt, thinks that Czech Muslims have never done anything that destroys the harmonization of religious life. "Czech Muslims don't care if their colleagues are Jewish and Christian, we respect them," he said.

Based on that consideration, he said, Muslims were shocked by the treatment of the authorities. "We are afraid here to do anything. Just imagine, we only have a mosque that is smaller than a flat, "he said. (REPUBLIKA). *

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