On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:15:59PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Option 2 - Student Dormitory together with Cultural Centre > ========================================================== > On the way to the Arabic culture center[31] > [31] https://gallery.debconf.org/jjsjjvenue/dscn2985 The sign on the pillar in that photo reads: U ime Allaha, Milostivog, Samilosnog. Kulturni centar "Kralj Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud." 15.09.2000. G. 17.06.1421. po H. The King Fahd Mosque and Cultural Center seems to appear in a few terrorism related reports, being reportedly a center for Wahhabism (the variant of Islam most common in Saudi Arabia, as I understand it, [0]). In the Wal-Mart-sized, architecturally overbearing King Fahd mosque--which opened in 2000 on the outskirts of Sarajevo, built with Saudi money and named for the Saudi monarch--the imam is Nezim Halilovic Muderis, a Bosnian extremist agitator whose antics here I have followed since 1999. Muderis's Friday sermons, available on Bosnian websites, are replete with incitement to violence in Israel, Kashmir, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and the Philippines. He preaches the same line on the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq as is heard among the acolytes of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. It is, to say the least, bizarre: "In Falluja, according to statements from the U.S. command, spirits have appeared in the form of enormous spiders, weighing about a kilogram, that only attack U.S. soldiers, and the person who is bitten dies within seconds." -- http://www.islamicpluralism.org/articles/2005a/wahhabisbalkans.htm "They express their convictions with violence, introduce anarchy in mosques and preach intolerance," says Merdan, who recently founded an association in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo to fight against "those who deny basic teachings of Islam". Supported by a handful of independent journalists, Merdan recently published a book condemning the harmful influence on Bosnian people of Wahhabism, a radical version of Islam. ... In February, a young man who recently converted to Wahhabism killed his mother reportedly because she refused to join him for morning prayers. After the murder, the 23-year-old went to a "Wahhabi" mosque with blood on his hands and clothes, telling his fellow believers that he just made a "sacrifice to God". ... Sarajevo's imposing King Fahd Mosque, named after the late Saudi monarch who financed its construction, has in the past few years become the core of Bosnian followers of Wahhabism. -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060616/lf_afp/bosniasocietyreligion_060616163314 There seem to be some suggestion of links between that mosque and the July 7th bombings in London last year too, based on some quick googling. Cheers, aj [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
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