Officials targeted over passports
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The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina is continuing a campaign to weed out nonwhite immigrants who came to the Balkans in the 1990s as mujahadeen (“holy warriors”) to wage jihad. Mujahadeen from across the Muslim world were granted Bosnian citizenships by officials in the government of the late Alija Izetbegovic. “It had already been established that some citizenships were granted illegally, but we are looking for elements of criminal responsibility,” said government spokesman Boris Grubesic, pledging to hunt down other corrupt officials. An estimated 1,200 foreign former mujahadeen now reside in Bosnia as “citizens.”
A Bosnian government special commission has already pulled the citizenships of hundreds of foreign fighters, many of whom wed Bosniak women and now wage a well financed propaganda campaign to http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1353, who embraced Islam under Ottoman occupation. “Bosniak” as an ethnic identity is a fairly new phenomenon. As subjects of the Ottomans, Bosniaks were distinguished from their neighbors based on religion, not ethnic affiliation.
Conversion to Islam was taken largely for economic and social reasons. Less rural Slavs had fewer options of resistance, and dhimmi status meant second class citizenship. Conversion meant that “new Muslims” kept their land, had equal legal protection, and avoided the special taxes, among them the http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2743 of children, imposed on Christians. Additionally, Ottoman Islam was relatively easy going and had little in common with the rigorous fanaticism we find today.
These facts, as well as a period of Austrian rule and the experience of Titoist Marxism means that Bosniaks are now only nominally Muslim, with a modern, secular outlook. Among the efforts of the settled jihadis and foreign financed missionary programs are the construction of new mosques and the teaching of radical forms of Islam. Historically the Bosniaks were followers of a comparatively moderate form of Sufi Islam heavily syncretized with Christian and pagan customs. When the Yugoslav wars broke out in 1992 the Bosniaks were so cut off from prevailing Islamic practice that in one incident they greeted a visiting Arab cleric with traditional local festive fare: roast pork and plum brandy (slivovitz).
Alija Izetbegovic though was a radical with financial aid from Muslim governments and some European intelligence agencies which desired the breakup of multiethnic Yugoslavia. Izetbegovic’s separatist and Islamist agenda was opposed by many Bosniaks, large numbers of whom fought alongside Yugoslav forces. Unlike the Albanian Kosovars, Bosniaks are South Slavs whose language is essentially identical to that spoken in Serbia and Croatia and whose cultural practices are very similar. Given Bosnia’s geographic location, they were long exposed to outside, modernizing influences, and are not bound by the clannishness and isolation of the Kosovars. Attempts to impose the veil and other aspects of Sharia law on the Bosniaks would be fruitless. And while the ethnic Albanians are part of a regional “Greater Albania” project that threatens Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Macedonia, and, through immigration and crime, Europe in general, the main danger posed by Bosnia comes from the foreign mujahadeen, corrupt circles in government, and foreign financed missionary groups and foundations. The Bosnian people as a whole display a will to orient themselves to their Western roots.
The brutal aspects of the Yugoslav wars were largely a result of the behavior of foreign jihadists. With limited support from Bosnian civilians, Izetbegovic allowed the foreign fighters to escalate the conflict into a war of religious and ethnic extermination. The Third World jihadis targeted Christian Croat and Serb civilians as well as churches and other places of cultural significance, while prisoners of war were often tortured and beheaded. Because the “world community” supported Izetbegovic, little if any mention of these atrocities ever were made, and are only now coming out in a series of trials in The Hague.
One leading jihadi in Bosnia “concerned” about Bosnian immigration enforcement is http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2760, known as Abu Hamza (not to be confused with the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, nor with the handless cleric now in prison in the UK, nor with the slain leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad). A Syrian, al Husini heads the Ansar (“helper”) movement of foreign veterans and is outspoken against Bosnian government plans. He has organized “protests” in Sarajevo against the immigration crackdown, which he calls “a violation of our rights.” In response, the Bosnian government has expedited his expulsion. As an Islamist, al Husini would be imprisoned by the secular Syrians, and so he will instead be shipped to Croatia, the last place he resided before coming into Bosnia. It is an indictment of ethnic hatred among whites that the Croatian intelligence services aided Muslim extremists in Bosnia as well as Kosovo out of antipathy against the Serbs. One of the worst collaborations came when the Croatian Zagrebacka Bank laundered $800 to $900 million from a Saudi charitable organization. 90 percent of it went to al Qaeda guerrillas fighting on the Bosnian Muslim side.
Dzevad Glijasevic is a Bosnian expert on terrorism who warns about the danger of the 1,200 foreign former mujahadeen. “The issue of terrorism and the links of political circles in Bosnia with organized crime and terrorism is the number one question for the national security,” Galijasevic said. Galijasevic was a mayor of Maglaj immediately after the war, and like many secular Bosnians was alarmed by the jihadis, whose presence he sees as linked to corruption at the top of the Bosnian government. “What is important…isn’t whether you take away citizenship and deport such persons, but to cut off the possibilities for such ‘imports’ and ties with persons who provided them with false citizenships,” he said. Government action, Galijasevic says, is hampered by corrupt elements in the government, who base their legitimacy on Bosnia’s New World Order concocted victim status. These people don’t want the mujahadeen answering questions “on who brought them to Bosnia and why, what they have been doing, where the logistic bases of al-Qaeda are located in Bosnia and what are their links to political circles,” Galijasevic said.