Bosnia: Fundamentalist Islam Finds Fertile Ground in Bosnia
The Dayton Peace Accords called for the removal of foreign combatants from Bosnia after the Balkans war. But hundreds of mujahedeen fighters stayed, and today they are successfully spreading their...
View ArticleBosnia: Gay festival closes after clashes with hardline Muslims
Bosnia’s first gay pride festival has been forced underground after 10 people were injured when protestors attacked visitors on the festival’s opening night. Dozens of people chanting “kill the gays”...
View ArticleBosnia: Mosque burned in Bosnia on Muslim holiday
A mosque in the eastern Bosnian village of Fazlagica Kula has been set on fire, just hours before the beginning of Eid-al-Adha. Media reports disclosed that the inside of the mosque and its roof were...
View ArticleBosnia: Serbs ordered to pay for mosques damaged in war
Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercogovina have been ordered to pay $42 million to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war. All of the 16 mosques in town of Banja Luka of...
View ArticleBosnian Muslims: threat or opportunity?
With their European culture and Islamic faith, Bosnian Muslims want to act as a bridge between East and West but instead feel rejected. There are times when Aida Begic gets on a plane and the looks she...
View ArticleSilencing Bosnia’s minarets
In the eastern Bosnian town of Bjeljina, 1,200 Serb residents signed the petition which calls for the reduction of the volume of the ezan (call to prayer) as it apparently creates a disruptive “noise”...
View ArticleTo provide freedom and the right to life
On request of the great number of media to comment the result of Swiss minaret ban, Dr. Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia, made the following statement: “It is interesting that Switzerland has...
View ArticleEuropean Muslims call for peace in Pakistan
Led by the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, high Muslim authorities in Europe – shaykh Naim Ternava, Grand Mufti of Kosovo, Selim Muqaj, Grand Mufti of Albania, Sulejman Rexhepi, Grand Mufti of Macedonia, Dr....
View ArticleAmerican/Bosnian arrested on terrorism related charges, pleads guilty
Adis Medunjanin, an American citizen originally from BiH, was arrested Friday on terror charges for ties to al-Qaida Pakistan and plead “not guilty” on Saturday in a Brooklyn court. Medunjanin and...
View ArticleBiH: “Arrest of Adis Medunjanin does not endanger Bosniaks in United States”
“The arrest of Adis Medunjanin, an American citizen of Bosnian origin, suspected of cooperation with terrorist organization Al-Kaida, does not affect the status of Bosniaks in the United States”,...
View ArticleGrand Mufti of Bosnia on the meeting of the Council of Muslim Intellectuals...
On invitation of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, based in Virginia, USA, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, Dr. Mustafa Cerić, participated on two-days meeting of the Council of Muslim...
View ArticleDebate on European Islam: A Mined Terrain
November 28, 2011 The concept of European Islam has proved to be a constant source of controversy. For some it embodies the deliverance of Islam from everything that is perceived as backward looking...
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