Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad bin Ameen Madani expressed his disappointment at the reported statements made by Czech President Milos Zeman on 26 May 2014 at the Israeli Embassy in Prague that "Islamic ideology rather than individual groups of religious fundamentalists was behind violent actions similar to the gun attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels." Madani stated that the Czech President's recent statements on Islam are in line with the previous statements the President made in the past, where he linked "believers in the Quran with anti-Semitic and racist Nazis"; and that "the enemy is anti civilization spreading from North Africa to Indonesia, where two billion people live." Such statements, said Madani, not only shows President Zeman's lack of knowledge and misunderstanding of Islam, but also ignores the historical facts that anti-Semitism and Nazism are a European phenomena through and through. They have no roots in Islam, neither as a religion nor as a history or civilization. President Zeman's statements are nothing more than misinformed stereotyping and Islamophopic, the Secretary General added. --More 22:07 LOCAL TIME 19:07 GMT تغريد
