Ambassadors walk out of Prague seminar on Islam in protest at comments

The Turkish ambassador to the Czech Republic and representatives of other Muslim countries walked out of a seminar being staged on Islam in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday. The protest reaction followed comments in which lawyer Klara Samková compared Islam to totalitarian regimes and said it should be fought. The organizer of the seminar, ANO lawmaker Zděnek Soukup said that he did not expect there to be much diplomatic fall-out from the comments. Samková is a former member of the anti-Islamic Bloc against Islam. Another participant in the seminar was the chairman of the Muslim community in the Czech Republic, Muneeb Hassan Alrawi.

Author: Chris Johnstone