Bosnia acts against Wahhabis

by rédaction | November 14, 2006 at 08:22 am
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A Syrian Wahhabi imam, Imad al-Husin, has been 'resigned' from his community, AKI reports from Sarajevo

Imad al-Husin, a Syrian known as Abu Hamza, said he was resigning because of his "inability to express himself in the Bosnian language in order to be understood correctly." He said he apologised to Bosnian Muslim believers if his statements had been interpreted as insults.

The fact is that most Bosnian Muslims are 'moderate' in the religious sense and hence not amenable to the Saudi-inspired radical Islamism that al-Husin  preached. 

The Bosnian authorities are currently scrutinising the citizenships granted to some 1,500 foreigners from Islamic countries of which 150 have so far been revoked. Al-Husin's apology and resignation followed a meeting with Bosnian Muslim religious leader Reiss-ul-Ulema Mustafa Ceric, local newspapers reported.

 
Daily Oslobodjenje said that Ceric has condemned the Bosnian authorities' stripping of the 150 citizenships, pointing out that "the state doesn’t have the right to discriminate based on religion, appearance, nationality or origin."

But based on incitement to violence, sedition and hate-mongering--of course it does.




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