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International Conference Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region - Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation
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International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation They don't pray Friday prayers and Tarawih prayers, they don't pray daily prayers with our priests, they do not recognize Reis ul Ulema as their leader, they do not pay Zakat to Islamic community, but a fth of their income they send to Iran to their spiritual leader." 42 After a lot of mutual accusations, which eventually caught up media representatives too, 43 Bosnian public debate on"foreign" inuences in local Islamic community ended suddenly as it began. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in order to promote Turkey's new foreign policy doctrine, came to Sarajevo in 2009. and in front of Sarajevo's central mosque he delivered a speech about"big comeback" of Turkey to the Western Balkan region. In this 39 way, he openly marked Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Turkish sphere of inuence. After that, Bosnian media became less and less interested in the problem of Saudi and Iranian inuence, and all the"lights" were pointed(and still they are) at new"Turkish March" toward the Balkans. Problem of Bosnian Muslim division was "pushed under the carpet". But it's still far from being solved. That is why the Riyaset of Islamic Community recently established an"Institute for the Study of the tradition of Bosniaks" in order to determine what is, and what is not, traditional Bosnian Islam. But this institution has failed to provide answers to the key questions. So the problem remains unsolved. 42 Interview with Šukrija Ramić published in the magazine SAFF, Zenica, 25th October, 2008. 43 For example, at 16th Decembar 2009. Riyasat issued a statement which criticizes Duška Jurisić, host and editor of the TV show"Pošteno"("Honestly"), for the topic about Wahhabism in Bosnia. In this statement Riyasat expressed"surprise that Federal Television, as a public service broadcaster, for the topic of its show takes a narrower doctrinal issues in the eld of specialist discussions of Islamic experts." http://www.rijaset.ba/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5526:saopenje-rijaseta-u-povodu-emisije-ftv&catid=203:mina-vijesti-kat&Itemid=459(accessed on December 20th 2013.)