Muslims seek apology from RS president

The Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina has condemned Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik’s recent statement. Dodik said that “Serbian people in Bosnia-Herzegovina do not believe in Muslims’ good intentions”. Muslims seek apology from RS president Muslims have called Dodik’s statement given to Vienna-based daily Der Standard “alarming and frightening” and said that it is very similar to statements made by former RS President Biljana Plavsic in 1993 that “Muslims were genetically poor material”. The announcement reads that Dodik’s recent statement is similar to his 2008 position that it was unacceptable to the RS that “Muslims try Serbs”. “The Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, that has an obligation to protect rights and interests of its Muslim believers, considers Milorad Dodik’s statement to be chauvinistic, anti-Islamic and Islamophobic, that incites hatred toward a religious group from the highest level of institution of power and system,” the Islamic Community pointed out in the announcement. It added that “inciting hatred toward more than a billion Muslims in the world and denying that a global religious community has good intentions is a highlight of racism and fascism”. The Islamic Community in Bosnia Herzegovina has called on Dodik to take back his statement, warning that it will otherwise request international, government institutions and NGOs to react to these “threatening messages”. Milorad Dodik

Muslims seek apology from RS president

Muslims have called Dodik’s statement given to Vienna-based daily Der Standard “alarming and frightening” and said that it is very similar to statements made by former RS President Biljana Plavšić in 1993 that “Muslims were genetically poor material”.

The announcement reads that Dodik’s recent statement is similar to his 2008 position that it was unacceptable to the RS that “Muslims try Serbs”.

“The Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina, that has an obligation to protect rights and interests of its Muslim believers, considers Milorad Dodik’s statement to be chauvinistic, anti-Islamic and Islamophobic, that incites hatred toward a religious group from the highest level of institution of power and system,” the Islamic Community pointed out in the announcement.

It added that “inciting hatred toward more than a billion Muslims in the world and denying that a global religious community has good intentions is a highlight of racism and fascism”.

The Islamic Community in Bosnia Herzegovina has called on Dodik to take back his statement, warning that it will otherwise request international, government institutions and NGOs to react to these “threatening messages”.