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               immigrational background plus         Muslims in the Czech Republic
               an    additional    couple     of     is  the  Center  for  Muslim
               hundreds of Czech converts.           Communities  in  the  Czech
                  Most  Muslims  living  in  the     Republic               (Ústřední
               Czech Republic don’t  feel any        muslimských  obcí  v  České
               need to organize themselves or        republice – UMOCR).
               practice  their  faith  in  a            The Center has its own web
               collective way.                       page  http://www.umocr.cz/  for
                  There  is  only  one  Islamic      providing  basic  information
               organization           registered     about  the  organization  and  its
               according to Czech church and         activities.
               religious  law  –  the  Center  for      Nevertheless,  the  web  itself
               Muslim  Communities  in  the          can’t  be  considered  a  medium
               Czech  Republic  –  but  it’s         for  a  religious  dialog  at  all,
               relevance  or  effect  on  Czech-     because  it  is  only  about  the
               Muslim       environment        is    organization      and       basic
               debatable.                            information about its structure,
                  On the other hand, due to so-      statuses,  and  basic  declaration
               called  migration  crisis  and        of the federation.
               growing      Islamophobia      in        There  is  absolutely  no
               Europe,     more    activity  of      contribution of this web page to
               Muslim      representatives    in     religious  dialog  or  Islamic
               Czech     society    would     be     education at all.
               advisable.

               Sunni  Muslim  Community
               and Cyberspace in CR
               There  are  several  projects  in
               the  Czech  cyberspace  dealing
               with  Islam  teachings  and
               representing the Islamic culture
               to Czech society.
                  As  mentioned  above,  the
               most important organization of
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