Muslims are not welcome in Czech Republic – Prime Minister

Czech: Czech Republic Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, on Tuesday warned that its government does not want a larger Muslim presence in the country.

Speaking in Prague on Tuesday, the Prime Minister said that the country shared Germany’s desire to control the movement of refugees from the Middle East, but the country had different ideas on how to achieve such.

“We have no strong Muslim community here, and to be honest, we do not want a strong Muslim community to become established here,’’ he said.

The Minister also insisted that the Czech, along with fellow Visegrad countries including, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, were against a permanent refugee quota system for European countries as advocated by Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Sobotka said that the Visegrad states assumed it should be up to the individual national governments to decide how many refugees to take in.

“The bottom line is that it is national governments which must guarantee the safety of their citizens.’’