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Bosnia chief Imam supports Wahhabis
"Those that are accusing us that their situation is bad because of Islam and the 'new' Muslims are joining the islamophobia that is us, Bosnian Muslims, old and new remind on the experience of the survived genocide," said Ceric during the ISlamic prayer on Friday in the mosque in the eastern town of Sokolac. Ceric also said that to some "new Muslims who call themselves Wahhabis" are troubling and that is because these Muslims have "survived genocide and are against the regime of apartheid" that dominates in Bosnia. Wahhabis have been reintroduced to Bosnia during the 1990s when Bosnian Muslims waged Jihad against Bosnian Christians and invited holy warriors from Middle East to Bosnia granting them citizenship and marrying them off with Bosnian Muslim women. Bosnian Muslims believe that supposedly a genocide of them occurred during the time when they waged Jihad in the 1990s. Ceric's support for the Bosnian Wahhabis comes days after a Croatian cardinal Puljic expressed concern at the growing Islamic extremism. "There is a certain mentality that is not native to Bosnia. I do not know it well but I know that they call it Wahhabis," said Puljic. "I speak of this rarely because I immediately get threats." After Puljic's comments, Imam Ceric said publicly that Bosnian Muslims are a capable of meeting modern challenges and that they do not need anyone's "paternalism". Ceric said that "Bosnian Muslims, not the old nor the new will infringe no ones right to life, liberty, property and dignity". Puljic's statements were made during his visit to Washington where he met congressmen and held lectures. While there, Puljic pleaded for protection of Bosnia's Catholics saying that nearly half of Croats have left Bosnia. Puljic also spoke with Steward Jones, Jason Hyland and Rosemary DiCarlo from the State Department. "It is a sad fact that in those conversations one people were never mentioned, Croatians, not to mention about their rights," Puljic commented on those meetings. Posted by: tipper 2009-02-09 |
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