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"Bosnian Leader Hails Islam
at Election Rallies" A
Coincidence of Obituaries" On 19 October 2003, the Muslim Fundamentalist (or Islamist) leader, Alija Izetbegovic, age 78, died of heart failure. During the Bosnian war of the 1990s, European and Muslim governments and the US referred to Izetbegovic as the president of the so-called Bosnian government.When he died, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued this statement: [1]
The US State Department praised Izetbegovic as well:
The two statements are curiously similar are they not? They might have been written by the same hand. This may surprise you if you don't know that the Pentagon coordinated Iranian and Saudi military intervention in Bosnia, on the side of Izetbegovic, against the Bosnian Serbs and moderate Muslims. This intervention included the importation of the worst Mujahideen cutthroats - they boasted that "we do everything with the knife" - to indoctrinate and train Izetbegovic’s army, and lead it in a campaign of terror.[3] The State Department's reference to "Bosnia and Herzegovina remaining a unified multiethnic country" has one problem: Bosnia was never in fact a country. Prior to 1992, it was an administrative unit within the internationally recognized state of Yugoslavia. Rather than protecting the multiethnic state of Yugoslavia, Izetbegovic’s Fundamentalists fought to secede with the aim of creating an Islamist republic on this piece of Yugoslav territory. This was opposed by virtually all the Serbs and probably most Muslims. But it was backed by the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Islamist states. Despite the hype in the Western media, Izetbegovic was not fighting to affirm (let alone reaffirm!) some supposed Bosnian nationhood. Rather, he called for:
In other words, the Islamist takeover of Bosnia was intended as a step towards the creation of a unified Muslim world-state. Quite the opposite of preserving the nonexistent 'Bosnian nation'! And yet the fiction of a Bosnian nation, threatened by supposed Serb secessionists (the Serbs were in fact the people who didn't want to secede from Yugoslavia) was sold to ordinary people in the West. The Iranian statement refers to Izetbegovic as a unifier among "the various ethnic races". I wonder, what on earth is an "ethnic race"? Sounds like something from a Nazi's dream. That aside, was Izetbegovic aiming for unity? And if so, what kind of unity? Petar Makara has translated some excerpts from Izetbegovic's guiding work, Islamska deklaracija, or Islamic Declaration, which makes Izetbegovic's goals quite clear.
-- Jared
Israel ==============================================
Quotations from Islamic Declaration ==============================================
do we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightment and to become masters of their own fate; do we want the springs of courage, genius and virtue to come forth strongly once again; then we must show the way which leads to that objective: The implementation of Islam in all aspects of individuals' personal lives, [both] in the family and in society, by the renewal of Islamic religious thought, and by creating a uniform Muslim community from Morocco to Indonesia." page 3"A nation, and an individual, who has accepted Islam is incapable of living and dying for another ideal after that fact. It is unthinkable for a Muslim to sacrifice himself for any tzar or ruler, no matter what his name may be, or for the glory of any nation, or party or some such, because acting on the strongest Muslim instinct he recognizes in this a certain type of godlessness and idolatry. A Muslim can die only with the name of Allah on his lips and for the glory of Islam, or he may run away from the battlefield." page 4 "The Muslim nations will never accept anything that is explicitly against Islam, because Islam here is not merely a faith and the law, Islam has become love and compassion. He who rises against Islam will reap nothing but hate and resistance." page 17"The shortest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of faith and law, upbringing and force, ideals and interests, spiritual community and state, free will and force. As a synthesis of these components, the Islamic order has two fundamental premises: an Islamic society and Islamic authority. The former is the essence, and the latter the form of the Islamic order. An Islamic society without Islamic power is incomplete and weak; Islamic power without an Islamic society is either a utopia or violence. A Muslim generally [speaking] does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. He must change the world or be changed himself. History knows of no true Islamic movement which was not at the same time a political movement as well. This is because Islam is a faith, but also a philosophy, a set of moral codes, an order of things, a style, an atmosphere - in a nutshell, an integral way of life." page 19"The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be neither peace nor coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions. [...] By claiming the right to order its own world by itself, Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression of and should support the moral concepts of the religion." page 22 "The upbringing of the nation, and especially the mass media - the press, TV and film - should be in the hands of people whose Islamic moral and intellectual authority is undisputed. [...] The Islamic rebirth cannot be initiated without a religious revolution, and cannot be successfully continued and concluded without a political revolution. Our road does not begin by winning power, but [by winning] people." page 32 "We must therefore be first preachers and then soldiers. Our weapons are: personal example, the book, the word. When is force to be added to these? The choice of this moment is always a specific one and depends on a series of factors. There is however a general rule: the Islamic movement should and must start to take over the power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough not only to overthrow the existing non-Islamic, but also to build up a new Islamic authority." page 43 "In one of the thesis for an Islamic order of today we have stated that it is a natural function of the Islamic order to gather all Muslims and Muslim communities throughout the world into one. Under the present conditions, this desire means a struggle for creating a great Islamic federation from Morocco to Indonesia, from tropical Africa to Central Asia." page 46 "We would like to distinguish between Jews and Zionists, but only if the Jews themselves find the strength to make the distinction. We hope that the military victories, which they had against quarrelling Arab regimes, (not against Arabs or against Muslims) will not cloud their minds. We hope that they will eliminate the confrontation which they themselves made, so that the new road is open to a life on the common ground of Palestine. If they [the Jews], though, continue on the road of arrogance, which is more likely, then for the whole Islam movement and for all Muslims there is but one solution: to continue to fight, to strengthen and broaden the struggle, from day to day, from year to year, no matter how many victims and no matter the time it may last, until they are forced to return every inch of the occupied land. Every negotiation and every compromise on this fundamental issue for our brothers in Palestine will be a treason which may destroy the very core of the moral system of our world. These are not new laws of our new Islam policy toward Christians and Jews, not new laws dictated by the new political situation. They are just the practical conclusions taken from the Islamic recognition of Christians and Jews which come right from the Qu'ran (Qu'ran, 29/45, 2/136, 5/47-49) pages 53-54 ============================================
"Bosnian Leader Hails Islam at Election Rallies"
============================================ Campaign rallies by Bosnia's President,
Alijia Izetbegovic, are not intended to alleviate the fears of those
who believe he wants to set up a Muslim state. Copyright 1996 NY Times * Posted for Fair Use only. ===========================================
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[2] Transcript: State Department
Noon Briefing, October 20, 2003 (Sudan, Powell's travel to Kenya,
Cyprus, Russia, Azerbaijan, Middle East, reporters without borders/human
rights, Iraq, Israel/Palestinians, Bosnia-Hercegovina/death of former
President Itzetbegovic, terrorism, China, Iran) (6520) "Deputy State
Department Spokesman J. Adam Ereli briefed the media October 20. " [3] The quote is from the London Telegraph,
29 December 1993; "Albanians
and Afghans fight for the heirs to Bosnia's SS past," by Robert Fox,
Dateline: Fojnica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. For a longer excerpt, go to
[4] Alija Izetbegovic, Islamska Deklaracija [Islamic Declaration](Bosna, Sarajevo, 1990), p. 3. Translated by Petar Makara. [5] All page citations refer to Alija Izetbegovic,
Islamska
Deklaracija [Islamic Declaration] (Bosna, Sarajevo, 1990). *** Please forward this text or send the link to a friend.http://emperors-clothes.com/bosnia/izet.htm
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