Milan Šarapatka, a deputy of the populist Dawn movement, will not take part in the drafting of its foreign policy, Šarapatka said today in reaction to its leader Tomio Okamura’s attack on Muslims Saturday.
Okamura called on people on Facebook to bother Muslims in the Czech Republic by “walking pigs” close to mosques.
The text, which is the Dawn’s “instruction for the protection against Islam,” is signed by Dawn member Jiří Kobza.
The Dawn advises people to keep dogs and pigs and to go to walk them in the vicinity of mosques and other sites visited by Muslims.
It says people should not buy kebab, a meal often offered by Muslim vendors.
The article is also aimed against immigrants in general. It calls on people not to vote in support of politicians who promise advantages to immigrants.
Former diplomat Šarapatka said in a press release he would not leave the Dawn and that he would stay in the Chamber of Deputies foreign affairs committee.
“In the course of our collaboration, I was trying to cultivate Okamura’s radical foreign political views,” Šarapatka said.
“Okamura’s latest statements that in an absolutely unacceptable way disparage the basic issue of the attitude to the Muslim religion and compare the U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany have forced me to take steps that will clearly express my disagreement with such statements,” Šarapatka said.
He said he had informed Okamura of his decision.
Šarapatka said he believed space to outline a sensible foreign policy would be created in the Dawn after a time.