Muslims and the West, or why Islam stirs fear

In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of Islam and it is a subject that arouses strong emotions. The same goes for the Czech Republic, which has a small Muslim minority. A subject that only recently was marginal has sparked the interest of politicians and activists and prompted an often stormy discourse in which Islam appears as a certain “antithesis” of our (Western, Christian, etc.) civilisation. Arabic studies specialists and experts on Islam Jan Čuřík, Petr Pelikán and Bronislav Ostřanský will discuss Islam and its increasingly media-covered “points of friction”.

Chaired by Jan Fingerland (Czech Radio).