INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA
See also related article: http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/bosnia-suffers-from-unresolved-issues.html
Mr Suljagic has been the minister for education for Sarajevo canton, by far the biggest of the ten cantons in the Federation. When he suggested that pupils should be allowed to opt out of religion classes without suffering a loss to their overall grades, he became the subject of a hate campaign. One death threat came in the form of a bullet delivered to his home with the message: “Leave Allah and his religion alone, or the hand of the faithful will strike you.
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Mr Suljagic's most fervent critics his Reis-ulema Mustafa Ceric, head of the BOSNIAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY. Background Info. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Ceri%C4%87
In May last year, in a particularly biting speech to 30,000 faithful at Blagaj, Cerić attacked the Minister's proposals, warning that Muslims would take to the streets... affirming that “the schools are ours” and condemning “those who want to do in Sarajevo what had been done in Srebrenica”, that is genocide.
THE SCHOOL ARE OURS
Reis-ulema Mustafa Ceric |
Background Info: See: BOSNIA, EUROPEAN UNIONS STEPCHILD http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.htmland BOSNIA, CURSED BY EUROPEAN UNION
BOSNIA'S LASTING INCAPACITY TO CREATE IMPARTIAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES
Mr Suljagic has now been forced to resign when almost at the same time Mr Ceric received a prize in Romefor the “promotion of dialogue between religions.” Reflecting on this year’s Srebrenica anniversary one wonders what Mr Ceric's award says about modern BOSNIA:
From the end of the war to today, the question asked has been: how deep are the wounds left by that conflict? The version chosen by the international media has been that the causes of the war were ethnic, not the consequences. Twenty years later it seems to be the contrary. The resignation of Suljagić is a sign of BOSNIA'S lasting incapacity to create public structures characterized by inclusiveness, not division, for all its different citizens. The award to Cerić is perhaps a sign of our lasting incapacity to comprehend how much the internal dynamics of that country are important for the destiny of EUROPE.
SOME BOSNIAK ELEMENTS TURNED TO EXTREMIST IDEOLOGIES, WHICH RESULTED IN THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS “MUSLIM-ONLY” ENTITIES
BOSNIA should be a lesson: in a far less conducive environment, some BOSNIAK elements turned to extremist ideologies, which resulted in the formation of religious Muslim-only units, with emirs and imams, in what started out as a secular, multiethnic Army of the Republic of BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Wartime atrocities committed by foreign and domestic mujahedeen created deep-seated fears and resentments that continue to be exploited by nationalist politicians.
Mr Suljagic was a translator for the UN during the war in Srebrenica, which helped him survive the massacres of July 1995.
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