The Czech president Milos Zeman, known for his anti-immigration stance, says that integrating Muslims into European society is “practically impossible.”
“The experience of western European countries which have ghettos and excluded localities shows that the integration of the Muslim community is practically impossible,” Zeman said in a televised interview.
“Let them have their culture in their countries and not take it to Europe, otherwise it will end up like Cologne,” he added, referring to the hundreds of reported sexual assaults by migrants in the German city on New Year’s Eve. The first refugee was arrested in the case on Monday.
Zaman, 71, said that some “similar” cultures are able to integrate into European society, using the Vietnamese and Ukrainian communities in Czech as an example, reported the Guardian.
