Czech-Saudi on the line over anti-Islamic statements

chika ebuzor

June 4, 2015 7:38 PM

Meanwhile, President Zeman says has said he will not apologise.

Czech-Saudi on the line over anti-Islamic statements.

News reaching our sources say Saudi-Arabia has cancelled Czech-Saudi forum put together to increase investments between the two countries.

According to Gulf News, all Saudi citizens in the private and public sector have been asked to boycott the forum.

The directive was issued by King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud to through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, apparently in protest of the anti-Islamic statements, accredited Czech politicians.

Reports have it that the issue started when Czech President Miloš Zeman, likened Islam to violence and anti-civilisation.

In a statement refuting the Czech President’s statement, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) said: “The Czech President’s statements on Islam are in line with the statements the President made in the past, where he linked believers in the Quran with anti-Semitic and racist Nazis and said that the enemy is anti-civilization spreading from North Africa to Indonesia, where two billion people live,” OIC Secretary General Eyad Madani said. “Such statements not only show President Zeman’s lack of knowledge and misunderstanding of Islam, but also ignore the historical facts that anti-Semitism and Nazism are a European phenomenon through and through. They have no roots in Islam, neither as a religion nor as a history or civilization. The Holocaust did not take place in the area from North Africa to Indonesia.”

chika ebuzor