Tougher laws for recruiting to extremist Islamic group

Draft amendments to the Criminal Code envisage five years in prison for recruiting "adolescents" for military campaigns of the extremist Wahhabi movement.

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Friday, 10.01.2014.

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BELGRADE Draft amendments to the Criminal Code envisage five years in prison for recruiting "adolescents" for military campaigns of the extremist Wahhabi movement. Those recruited into the group to join wars would themselves face up to three years of prison, Minister Rasim Ljajic has said. Tougher laws for recruiting to extremist Islamic group “We have made the draft amendments to the Criminal Code, and we will very soon discuss them with the coalition partners,” Ljajic told the Belgrade daily Blic, adding that he hopes that MPs will sense the urgency and adopt the four amendments. He said that the current law does not stipulate any punishment for the ones who leave Serbia to join military campaigns "or the ones who lure young people into this radical branch of Islam." According to the current law, the members of this fundamentalist Islamic movement cannot be punished for disturbing the public peace and order let alone serious offences, although the people, who interpret a religion in such a way, are a serious security problem in Serbia, the minister said. Ljajic underlined that this was "in fact the job of the Islamic communities, but neither of the two is doing its job as they deal with everything else but religion." He said that 19-year-old Mirza Ganic from Novi Pazar was "the third boy" killed in Syria, "and the Islamic community remains silent." "Since they do not want to react, the government will have to prevent further bloodshed,” Ljajic said. The Wahhabi movement is focused in southern Serbia and Sandzak, which is home to a large Bosniak (Muslim) population. According to the report, the group is "mainly luring young people for their fights for the Islamic creed and they do not hesitate to use weapons to achieve their goals." "It has been reported that Serbs are selling their property in some areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the Wahhabi training centers are situated, to avoid living next to these groups which are instigators of numerous tragic developments," the article said. Blic Tanjug

Tougher laws for recruiting to extremist Islamic group

“We have made the draft amendments to the Criminal Code, and we will very soon discuss them with the coalition partners,” Ljajić told the Belgrade daily Blic, adding that he hopes that MPs will sense the urgency and adopt the four amendments.

He said that the current law does not stipulate any punishment for the ones who leave Serbia to join military campaigns "or the ones who lure young people into this radical branch of Islam."

According to the current law, the members of this fundamentalist Islamic movement cannot be punished for disturbing the public peace and order let alone serious offences, although the people, who interpret a religion in such a way, are a serious security problem in Serbia, the minister said.

Ljajić underlined that this was "in fact the job of the Islamic communities, but neither of the two is doing its job as they deal with everything else but religion."

He said that 19-year-old Mirza Ganić from Novi Pazar was "the third boy" killed in Syria, "and the Islamic community remains silent."

"Since they do not want to react, the government will have to prevent further bloodshed,” Ljajić said.

The Wahhabi movement is focused in southern Serbia and Sandžak, which is home to a large Bosniak (Muslim) population.

According to the report, the group is "mainly luring young people for their fights for the Islamic creed and they do not hesitate to use weapons to achieve their goals."

"It has been reported that Serbs are selling their property in some areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the Wahhabi training centers are situated, to avoid living next to these groups which are instigators of numerous tragic developments," the article said.

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