International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation ISLAMIC“RE-CONQUEST” OF THE BALKANS The issue of emerging division between Bosnian Muslims. Those charges will again provoke very Muslims was opened transparently in 2006. sharp response of the Riyasat and Bosnian Reis with provocative text about Wahhabism ul Ulema Mustafa Cerić. In the new statement published in the Bosnian daily newspaper from the Riyasat, Bosnian Islamic Community "Oslobođenje"("Liberation"). The author of this condemned"inappropriate qualications of text was Professor Rešid Hazović, who is Professor Rešid Hazović at the expense of the among the most respected and most prominent Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has been contemporary Bosnian intellectuals. As a Professor of Faculty of Islamic Studies, and a immensely helpful to our country and our people, when it was most difcult" 33 The great expert in the eld of Islamic philosophy Statement of Riyasat regarding Hazović article and Islamic mysticism, he is very present in the will then cause division in the Bosnian public social and public life of Bosnia and Herzegovina. and provoke a large debate in Bosnia about the Saudi inuence. His comments on current social, religious and political issues are often used by the media in On this occasion, in a new interview given to the this country. Hazović shocked Bosnian public magazine"Dani", Hazović more openly talks for the rst time in 1996. when he gave an about Saudi inuence on the current leadership 36 interview to the Bosnian magazine"Dani" ("Days"), in which he sharply criticized the of the Islamic community. He said"...I must honestly admit that I have never imagined how policy of former Saudi King Fahd. Interview far reaches the hand of the mentioned provoked a strong response of the leadership of monarch. To the point where he begins to the Islamic community in the form of statement of Riyasat, 31 which stood in the protection of "proven Bosniak friends and benefactor" King prescribe our academic standards and patterns of thinking and speaking. So things seem to have gone much further than we thought" 34 Fahd. Hazović was already then, among the intellectuals in Bosnia, in those circles which Hazović without hesitation indicates a problem were not satised with the politics of the Riyasat of Wahhabism as a key issue for the survival of (notably a number of professors from The Bosnia and Herzegovina, the problem that must University of Sarajevo) became known as one of the ercest opponents of"wahhabisation" of be solved, otherwise"again a river of blood will start to ow trough Bosnia" 35 In a few places in Bosnia and Herzegovina. the text, Hazović again predicts the possibility of bloodshed among Muslims. This reputation Hazović will conrm ten years later, when he wrote his article"They're coming The other professors from the Faculty of Islamic for our children" published in the daily newspaper"Liberation” 32 . In this article Hazović Studies have also taken part in this debate. For example Esad Duraković an Adnan Silajdižić. without hesitation attacks not only the Wahhabi Professor Silajdžić also strongly opposed the community in Bosnia, but the very validity of the trend of the increasing Wahhabi inuence. He Wahhabi teaching itself. He also wrote that said that Wahhabis in Bosnia are not able to Wahhabism is the greatest tragedy in the history articulate the ways of Muslim modernity. He of Islam, and the fatal virus which will soon pointed out that they are not able to do that dissolve the very substance of Bosnian neither for themselves, neither for the others 31 Highest Islamic religious and administrative body of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 32 Rešid Hazović,"Oni dolaze po našu decu", Oslobođenje, Sarajevo, 25th November, 2006. 33 Statement of Riyasat from November 26th 2006. http://www.bosnjaci.net/prilog.php?pid=19911(accessed on December 20th 2013.) 34 Interview given to the magazine Dani, Sarajevo, 1st December, 2006. 35 Dani, Sarajevo, December 1st, 2006.