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Czech Republic: Muslim leaders denounce police over raids at Islamic institutions in Prague

Apr 29, 2014 5:55 am By Robert Spencer

prague-mosque-in-czech-republicHere again, as always, we see Muslim leaders reacting to a counter-terror action not by standing with the police against the “extremism” they ostensibly oppose, but by denouncing the police for offending Islam by the way they conducted the raid. This is akin to the perennial “Palestinian” claims that every Israeli counter-terror action is “disproportionate,” and to the claims of Muslims in the U.S. that counter-terror programs such as the NYPD’s just-ended surveillance program, although established in court as legal and Constitutional, were unfairly targeting Muslims.

Bilal Philips has gained controversy for advocating death for homosexuals. According to the National Post, he also “defends child marriages, wife beating, polygamy and killing apostates.”

An update on this story. “Muslim Leaders Denounce Police Over Raids in Czech Capital,” by Dan Bilefsky and Jan Richter, New York Times, April 28, 2014:

PARIS — Muslim leaders in the Czech Republic on Monday accused the police of abusing their power after armed officers raided Islamic institutions in Prague over the weekend, detaining 20 people during Friday Prayer at a mosque and a community center, and arresting the publisher of a book that law enforcement officials say incites xenophobia and violence.

A spokesman for the Czech police, Pavel Hantak, declined to identify the publisher or the book. He told the Czech news media that he did not want to help promote a book that disseminated racism, anti-Semitism and violence against what it called “inferior races.”

The police said the publisher was a 55-year-old Czech citizen who had the book translated into Czech. He has been charged with promoting hate speech, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Muneeb Hassan Alrawi, the head of the Association of Czech Muslim Religious Communities, said in an interview on Monday that law enforcement officials had indicated that the book behind the raids was “The Fundamentals of Tawheed” by Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, a Jamaican-born imam, who has been banned from entering Australia and Britain and expelled from Germany because of what his critics call extremist views.

Mr. Alrawi said that several copies of the book had been confiscated by the police during a raid Friday at the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation, a community center in Prague, the Czech capital.

Lukas Lhotan, a former convert to Islam who has since become an outspoken critic of the religion, said Monday that he had filed a criminal complaint against the book this month on the grounds that it preached dangerous radicalism. Mr. Lhotan said the book advised Muslims to form Muslim governments wherever they are, and called Jews the enemies of Islam.

Mr. Philips had previously argued that there was no such thing as rape in marriage under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Quran, and he has also come under criticism in Britain for seeming to condone suicide bombers.

On Monday, he vehemently defended the book, saying that millions of copies had been published in Muslim communities around the world. He said that the book was a commentary on Islamic theology and that there was “no place for racism” in the book. Any action against the book, he said, could “constitute an attack on Islam itself.”

Mr. Alrawi, who represents Muslim organizations in the Czech Republic, said the Czech edition of “The Fundamentals of Tawheed,” which was first published in 2012, had been overseen by a small group of people and had not been sufficiently vetted. “We made a mistake of not having thoroughly overseen the publication of the book,” he said. “We were not aware that some of its passages could be in breach of Czech law. Our association certainly does not hold any extremist views.”

Local Muslim groups complained that the raids, at the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation in central Prague and at a mosque on the city’s outskirts, had taken place during Friday Prayer. Wahono Yulianto, an Indonesian diplomat who was present during the raid at the mosque, said Monday that the Indonesian Embassy in Prague had lodged an official complaint with the Czech Foreign Ministry after he was detained by the police for 90 minutes.

“We had no idea why the police came,” he said. “They made us put up our hands and told us to lie on the floor. They walked in the prayer room with their shoes on and were shouting.”

Zdenek Vojtisek, an expert on religious extremism at Charles University in Prague, said that the roughly 10,000 Muslims in the Czech Republic were fragmented and that there was no evidence that the community had become radicalized in recent years.

Other analysts said the raids could help fuel anti-immigrant sentiment in the country at a time when the far right is gaining ground.

In other words, let the jihadists do whatever they want, because we don’t like the people who oppose them.

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  1. Noble Qu'far says

    Apr 29, 2014 at 6:18 am

    It howls like a wolf then bleats like a sheep.
    But just as it sows, so shall it reap.

    • Jay Boo says

      Apr 29, 2014 at 10:44 am

      So true

    • Huck Folder says

      Apr 30, 2014 at 1:04 am

      The Wolf, the Lamb and the Umma – Abu Nûh

      Not so long ago, in the mysterious land of oh-eye-see,
      there lived an ugly wolf hybrid known as Wolfmo.
      Among his peers, he was distinguished by his big head,
      his black coat, his long foul tongue and his loud howl.
      Hence, he became the alpha male in his pack.

      One day, as Wolfmo was on a hilltop searching for a refill
      for his rumbling stomach, he saw a chubby young Jew lamb
      with fluffy wool playing in a grassy glade. Wolfmo crept
      down the hill to meet the charming little lamb, resolved
      not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some sura
      to justify to the lamb his RIGHT to eat him.

      He thus addressed him: “Kid, last year you grossly insulted me.”
      “Indeed,” bleated the lamb mournfully, “I was not then born.”
      Then said Wolfmo, “You feed in my pasture.”
      “No, good sir,” replied the lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
      Again said Wolfmo, “You drink of my well.”
      “No!” Exclaimed the lamb, “I never yet drank water,
      for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”

      “Well! I won’t remain supperless,” thought Wolfmo.
      He seized the Jew lamb and ate him up, saying,
      “So it must have been your Jewe mother!”

      The mother powerlessly followed the dialogue.
      What could this poor mother do when she saw her
      beloved son being torn into pieces by the teeth of the wolf?
      She knew she could not reclaim her son, but in the passion
      of motherhood, she butted and rebutted Wolfmo.

      Of course Wolfmo was not affected at all.
      But his SUPERIORITY had been challenged!
      In an instant jihad syndrome, his pupils dilated
      and he raised the base of his tail, as in prayer.
      “How dare this Jewe touch me!” thought he.

      He howled with a long, smooth adhan sound,
      projecting, “This is a terrorist! This is a terrorist!”
      All other wolves howled, repeating Wolfmo’s words,
      creating an illusion that there were many
      condemning the act of the Jewe.

      It is not strange that these howls were heard
      from 10 miles away, but the strange thing is
      how these howls echoed throughout the forest.

      Whereby the left-winged parrots joined in
      and repeated what Wolfmo said, saying,
      “We condemn the Jewe’s butt against Wolfmo,
      ALL the animals are against this BARBARIC act!”

  2. Mirren10 says

    Apr 29, 2014 at 9:01 am

    ”Mr. Alrawi, who represents Muslim organizations in the Czech Republic, said the Czech edition of “The Fundamentals of Tawheed,” which was first published in 2012, had been overseen by a small group of people and had not been sufficiently vetted. **“We made a mistake of not having thoroughly overseen the publication of the book**,” ( my emphasis: Mirren) he said. “We were not aware that some of its passages could be in breach of Czech law. Our association certainly does not hold any extremist views.”

    Translation: ”Oops, we forgot to censor it enough, so the stupid kufr will continue to believe in the essential benignity of islam. Damn.”

    “We were not aware that some of its passages could be in breach of Czech law. Our association certainly does not hold any extremist views.”

    🙂 🙂

  3. John Magee says

    Apr 29, 2014 at 11:24 am

    Why are US tax payers paying for this and why is the USA State Department promoting Islam ?
    The Czech government has approved a new project aimed at promoting Islam
    in public elementary and secondary schools across the country.
    The project— —is being spearheaded by a Muslim advocacy group and is being financed by American taxpayers through a grant from the US Embassy in Prague. (The US State Department is also promoting Islam in other European countries.)
    The Czech Ministry of Education has authorized organized lectures and seminars aimed at “teaching Czech schoolchildren
    about Islamic beliefs and practices” and at “fighting stereotypes and
    prejudices about Muslims.”

  4. Salah says

    Apr 29, 2014 at 11:59 am

    Any action against the book, he said, could “constitute an attack on Islam itself.”

    Well, so be it. We need a courageous leader brave enough to say: Yes, we are attacking Islam itself. Is there any?
    The best way to attack Islam is to attack the founder of Islam, the Perfect Man of Islam (i.e. the Lowest of the Low.)

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

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