International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation CONCLUSION It is clear that confessional"reconstruction" of for iftar meal. Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the progress, and that consequences of this process can not yet No matter how ridiculous it may sound, these be accurately predicted. We must be objective and similar religious practices represent thorn in and admit that"new" or"imported" Islamic teachings can not seriously jeopardize the the eye of the local Wahhabis, and may in the future provoke some security incidents. 45 And primacy of traditional Hana Islam in this region. when we take into consideration the fact that Turkish foreign policy offensive in this region among the local Muslims we now have Shia additionally reducing chances for success of minority too, it is not difcult to imagine that the Shiite and Wahhabi teachings. But their very traditional Islamic rivalry between Sunnis and presence brings confusion among the Balkan Shiites, especially Wahhabi and Iranian Shi'ites, Muslims. Bosnian public debate clearly pointed may also, in the near future, come to life in this that out. region. Professor Ramić stresses this concern "I'm afraid that, in Bosnia, in the near future, we This kind of confusion can have serious will have a conicts of radical Bosnian Sunnis consequences. In theological terms unity of the and radical Bosnian Shiites, in a similar way that Muslim community could be seriously we have them today among the Arabs in Iraq, 40 threatened. And to some extent it already is. Members of the Wahhabi community have and Pakistanis and Afghans in Pakistan in Afghanistan.” 46 already shown hostility and animosity of towards religious heritage of Balkan Muslims. Therefore, it is necessary to closely monitor further developments: the potential growth of Their mentors from Saudi Arabia assist this Wahhabi and Shiite community in Bosnia, their intolerance by all means"Saudi aid agencies mutual confrontation and rivalry, and have been responsible for the destruction or engagement of non-governmental organizations reconstruction of many historic mosques, which are associated with the Islamic Republic libraries, Quran schools, and cemeteries in of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Bosnia and in Kosovo because their Ottoman architecture, decorations, frescoes, and tombstones did not conform to Wahhabi iconoclastic aesthetics that regard statues, tombstones, or artwork with human representations as idolatry and polytheism." 44 But, architecture and other material historical heritage is not only Islamic legacy which is threatened. Certain traditional religious practices are also"under re". For example, already mentioned Dovište- traditional prayer in the open, or local Ramadan tradition of eating plums 44 John L. Esposito, Unholy war-Terror in the Name of Islam, Oxford University Press, 2002., p.108. 45 Some incidents of this kind have already happened. For example, a bomb attack on a police station in Bugojno in 2010., conducted on the jubilee of ve hundredth Ajvatovica, which is the largest Dovište site in Bosnia. 46 Interview with Šukrija Ramić published in the magazine SAFF, Zenica, 25th October, 2008.