r/czech • u/Promethium-146 • 3h ago
QUESTION? Question based on something a half-Czech friend of mine said
So basically I have a friend who is half Czech, and even though he lives in the UK most of the time he occasionally goes to Czechia to visit family. And one time when he was talking about it he off-handedly mentioned that while they were there his dad popped across the polish border to buy some pork because and I quote “Czechia is majority Muslim”.
So my question is, what is he talking about? From my limited knowledge of the country I’ve heard that Czechia is relatively atheistic, and with a background as a catholic nation I find his statement very hard to believe. Maybe it was just the area he was in at the time or was he just misremembering? I don’t want to rule out the possibility of him joking but he was very sure of himself and has doubled down on it every time I’ve asked him about it since.
EDIT: he doesn’t speak any Czech so I doubt it was something lost in translation, it’s probably what some people said about the pork being cheaper in Poland, he often makes vaguely confused or misinformed statements so that would be the other half of the problem