BOSNIAS ETHNIC RIFT - THE KEY HINDRANCE TO ECO POLITICAL ADVANCE

 

INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA

See also related article: http://geopoliticsrst.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. 

Background Info. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

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

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, Ankara, Riyadh and Tehran. 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.

Background Info: See: BOSNIA, EUROPEAN UNIONS STEPCHILD http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.html and BOSNIA, CURSED BY EUROPEAN UNION

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/bosnia-cursed-by-european-union-eu.html

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 Rome for 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.