08 July 2011

Former Czech PM sued over anti-Islam statements

Known for making virulent statements in the past, former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman is being sued over comments he made toward Islam at a June conference on Europe.

“The enemy is the anti-civilization spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales,” Czech news servers quoted Zeman as saying about Islam at the recent conference.

.... Zeman said on Thursday that Muslims believe in the Qur’an like Nazis believed in racial supremacy and anti-Semitism and communists in class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat. [Bikya Masr] Read more [via The Iconoclast]