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A ten-year-old Czech girl has made headlines with her ability to talk
backwards. Czechs have taken a fancy to sponsoring animals at the zoo. And
Speaker’s Corner at Palacký Sqaure is giving Prague City Hall a
headache. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.
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Current AffairsNew anti-Neo-Nazi initiative gets underway
This week saw the launch of a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of
the growing problem of right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism in the Czech
Republic. The scheme, organised by the Czech based NGO People in Need and
various partners, is called NeoNácek Chcete Ho?, which translates as Who
wants a Neo Nazi? It involves several innovative initiatives as Jamie
Brindley explains:
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Current AffairsMohammed Abbas: anti-Islamic provocations fuel mistrust
In the past couple of weeks two incidents have threatened to disturb the
peaceful coexistence between Czechs and the country’s Muslim community,
centred mainly in the Moravian city of Brno. First, the city was plastered
overnight with posters depicting the controversial Danish caricature of the
prophet Mohammed which sparked violent protests across the Muslim world.
And then last week the ultra-right National Party placed the controversial
anti-Qur’an film Fitna by the rightwing Dutch MP Geert Wilders on its web
page.
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