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The Czech Republic experienced a spike in Islamophobia in 2014 despite there being a very small number of Muslims in the country, Petr Zídek writes in the daily Lidové noviny (LN) today.
Although President Milos Zeman's popularity plummeted in the past year, he is still highly respected by Islamophobes, Zídek writes.
In mid-December, the Islamophobes wrote a letter to Zeman in which they praised his open "objections to the Islamic theocratic and totalitarian ideology." They highly appreciated Zeman for opposing "the efforts by influential groups in Czech and European society to pursue a policy of appeasement towards this old-new totalitarian threat."