BOSNIAS ETHNIC RIFT - THE KEY HINDRANCE TO ECO POLITICAL ADVANCE

<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">  </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtd395vmmr79s8-xDRKX0cBQ_Yn5I2wi4rQ48pR2YUyK3-2rINgzXeyzbFaSXF7oNw3RKB1D_a7nwor-2-koXPM_Ufu0GtDWj3MAGnf0vabHayrEUCq8simXHpgywphJ58mky0mq0VVv_x/s1600/Bosnia_Herzegovina_maps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtd395vmmr79s8-xDRKX0cBQ_Yn5I2wi4rQ48pR2YUyK3-2rINgzXeyzbFaSXF7oNw3RKB1D_a7nwor-2-koXPM_Ufu0GtDWj3MAGnf0vabHayrEUCq8simXHpgywphJ58mky0mq0VVv_x/s400/Bosnia_Herzegovina_maps.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #274e13; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN <span style="color: blue;">BOSNIA</span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #274e13; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #274e13; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">See also related article: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/bosnia-suffers-from-unresolved-issues.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/bosnia-suffers-from-unresolved-issues.html</a></span> </span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Suljagic</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> has been the minister for education for <b>Sarajevo canton</b>, by far the biggest of the ten cantons in the <b>Federation</b>. 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: “<b>Leave Allah and his religion alone, or the hand of the faithful will strike you</b>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Info. See: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZqdsPR48GdsIRhmh61WnC9DeHPuN76TgDs8eOIyxCLUdFIb0-wW83yUKZbXOWYQ_5rqdyKw5npB5oyij7LtJP0RH12n1oXzdcSMKJzxjDaUoCJdFZZybMZ2zI39cXcQ1XfilEwll0vhRV/s1600/BS-NoPrayerSchoolNoFactsReligion1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZqdsPR48GdsIRhmh61WnC9DeHPuN76TgDs8eOIyxCLUdFIb0-wW83yUKZbXOWYQ_5rqdyKw5npB5oyij7LtJP0RH12n1oXzdcSMKJzxjDaUoCJdFZZybMZ2zI39cXcQ1XfilEwll0vhRV/s200/BS-NoPrayerSchoolNoFactsReligion1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Suljagic's</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> most fervent critics his <b>Reis-ulema Mustafa Ceric</b>, head of the BOSNIAN <b>ISLAMIC COMMUNITY</b>. Background Info. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Ceri%C4%87">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Ceri%C4%87</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In May last year, in a particularly biting speech to 30,000 faithful at <b>Blagaj, Cerić</b> 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 <b>Sarajevo </b>what had been done in <b>Srebrenica</b>”, that is genocide.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE SCHOOL ARE OURS</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaqCvojZ0k49QQZLifDFHVeH0mlRQosQxGm-5fvolwoSNbVuyTAwg1zq23BpL0tXH3AMFyvvVYC277oPxAmg-CHdErahxAl3_pXw-wbYHnHgPsORHOVr5QP9YT0Uc6NXH8mGZSzveW75f/s1600/640x392_7984_175825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaqCvojZ0k49QQZLifDFHVeH0mlRQosQxGm-5fvolwoSNbVuyTAwg1zq23BpL0tXH3AMFyvvVYC277oPxAmg-CHdErahxAl3_pXw-wbYHnHgPsORHOVr5QP9YT0Uc6NXH8mGZSzveW75f/s320/640x392_7984_175825.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Reis-ulema Mustafa Ceric</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Indeed, schools and universities in the Federation are firmly under control of the ISLAMIC COMMUNITY and foreign NGOs, sponsored by both, SAUDI ARABIA as well as IRAN and TURKEY. Taking into account that BOSNIA has a rather young population in comparison to EUROPE, radical Islamic elements are increasing their recruiting activities, especially since the young generation of BOSNIAKS (Muslim Bosnians), unlike their parents and grandparents, see no future in EUROPE and thus tend to look for alternative identities. SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEY and IRAN provide scholarships to BOSNIAK students in order to study in MALAYSIA, <b>Ankara, Riyadh</b> and <b>Tehran</b>. Medressas (Islamic schools) are thriving in the Federation, fostering fundamentalism to an extend Bosnia has never seen before. Universities in the Federation house prayer rooms and Wahhabism is on the increase. Thus indeed, the education system in Bosnia is undermined by the ISLAMIC COMMUNITY.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Background Info: See: <b style="color: blue;">BOSNIA, EUROPEAN UNIONS STEPCHILD</b> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.html</a>and <b style="color: blue;">BOSNIA, CURSED BY EUROPEAN UNION</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/bosnia-cursed-by-european-union-eu.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/bosnia-cursed-by-european-union-eu.html</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">BOSNIA'S LASTING INCAPACITY TO CREATE IMPARTIAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Suljagic</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> has now been forced to resign when almost at the same time <b>Mr Ceric</b> received a prize in <b>Rome</b>for the “promotion of dialogue between religions.” Reflecting on this year’s <b>Srebrenica</b> anniversary one wonders what <b>Mr Ceric's</b> award says about modern BOSNIA:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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 <b>Suljagić</b> 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 <b>Cerić</b> 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. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">SOME BOSNIAK ELEMENTS TURNED TO EXTREMIST IDEOLOGIES, WHICH RESULTED IN THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS “MUSLIM-ONLY” ENTITIES </span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Fj3WktnZgPcsOVT75an1DjXXmUAjUwMcp8VPDagH-UmOR5WUpn5vU9YWvmFu3wVTKAzIOMhJN4xOXJ0nEZZL9XrgG5LOJYB-YAeYyBNLb0FlGLurx0uvbMChvxSDWNHID8EjW9LaA5qQ/s1600/bosnia_wahhabis_derventa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Fj3WktnZgPcsOVT75an1DjXXmUAjUwMcp8VPDagH-UmOR5WUpn5vU9YWvmFu3wVTKAzIOMhJN4xOXJ0nEZZL9XrgG5LOJYB-YAeYyBNLb0FlGLurx0uvbMChvxSDWNHID8EjW9LaA5qQ/s320/bosnia_wahhabis_derventa.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">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.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mr Suljagic</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> was a translator for the UN during the war in Srebrenica, which helped him survive the massacres of July 1995.</span></span></div>

BOSNIAS ETHNIC RIFT - THE KEY HINDRANCE TO ECO POLITICAL ADVANCE

  INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA See also related article: http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/bosnia-suffers-from-unres...

Read more »