التشيك: الأمن يداهم مسجدا أثناء خطبة الجمعة ويعتقل المصلين

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أعرَب المجتمع الإسلامي التشيكي عن غضبه واستنكاره لقيام قوات الأمن بمداهمة مسجد العاصمة "بريجو" والجمعية الإسلامية التابعة له، واعتقال 20 مصليًا أثناء خطبة الجمعة، منهم مترجم كتاب "أصول التوحيد" الذي يزعم الأمن أنه يحث على كراهية الأجانب والعنف، واتهمه بنشر خطاب الكراهية، وكان قد حكم عليه منذ فترة وجيزة بالسجن 10 سنوات بسبب ذلك الكتاب.

وقد أشار "منيب حسن الراوي" - رئيس اتحاد الجمعيات الإسلامية الدينية - إلى أن الكتاب المزعوم وفقًا لما أخبره به الأمن هو كتاب "أصول التوحيد"؛ للشيخ "بلال فيليبس"، مؤكدًا أن الأمن صادر جميع النسخ المتوفرة، وذلك بالرغم من تداول الكتاب حول العالم بملايين النسخ.

ودفاعًا عن الكتاب ومحتواه أكد الشيخ بلال أن الكتاب يوضح أصول العقيدة الإسلامي، ولا يدعم العنصرية، وأن مصادرته تعد اعتداءً على الإسلام.

وأشار أحد الأكاديميين المتخصص في الشؤون الدينية بـ"جامعة تشارلز" إلى أنه يوجد آلاف المسلمين في "التشيك"، ولا يوجد دليل على انتشار الأصولية بينهم في السنوات الأخيرة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim Leaders Denounce Police Over Raids in Czech Capital

Muslim leaders in the Czech Republic on Monday accused the police of abusing their power after armed officers raided Islamic institutions in Prague over the weekend, detaining 20 people during Friday Prayer at a mosque and a community center, and arresting the publisher of a book that law enforcement officials say incites xenophobia and violence.

A spokesman for the Czech police, Pavel Hantak, declined to identify the publisher or the book. He told the Czech news media that he did not want to help promote a book that disseminated racism, anti-Semitism and violence against what it called “inferior races.”

The police said the publisher was a 55-year-old Czech citizen who had the book translated into Czech. He has been charged with promoting hate speech, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Muneeb Hassan Alrawi, the head of the Association of Czech Muslim Religious Communities, said in an interview on Monday that law enforcement officials had indicated that the book behind the raids was “The Fundamentals of Tawheed” by Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, a Jamaican-born imam, who has been banned from entering Australia and Britain and expelled from Germany because of what his critics call extremist views.

Mr. Alrawi said that several copies of the book had been confiscated by the police during a raid Friday at the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation, a community center in Prague, the Czech capital.

Lukas Lhotan, a former convert to Islam who has since become an outspoken critic of the religion, said Monday that he had filed a criminal complaint against the book this month on the grounds that it preached dangerous radicalism. Mr. Lhotan said the book advised Muslims to form Muslim governments wherever they are, and called Jews the enemies of Islam.

Mr. Philips had previously argued that there was no such thing as rape in marriage under Shariah, the legal code of Islam based on the Quran, and he has also come under criticism in Britain for seeming to condone suicide bombers.

On Monday, he vehemently defended the book, saying that millions of copies had been published in Muslim communities around the world. He said that the book was a commentary on Islamic theology and that there was “no place for racism” in the book. Any action against the book, he said, could “constitute an attack on Islam itself.”