With their European culture and Islamic faith, Bosnian Muslims want to act as a bridge between East and West but instead feel rejected. There are times when Aida Begic gets on a plane and the looks she receives from other passengers remind her of people’s fears and misunderstandings about Islam. A well-known Bosnian movie director,…
The Ottawa Citizen profiles Dr. Zijad Delic, who immigrated to Canada in 1995 from Bosnia and received his PhD from Simon Fraser University ten years later. Delic is currently an imam at British Columbia’s largest Sunni Mosque as well as an administrator at the B.C. Muslim school. He is coordinating “Islamic History Month Canada,” proclaimed…
The British Muslims commemorated the Srebrenica genocide by paying homage to more than 8,000 Bosnia Muslims men and boys massacred by Serb forces despite being in a UN-protected safe area in July 1995 during the civil war in former Yugoslavia. The Muslim Council of Britain in a message on the occasion said, “The massacres of…
Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercogovina have been ordered to pay $42 million to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war. All of the 16 mosques in town of Banja Luka of the Serb-run Rebpublika Srpska were destroyed during the 1992-1995 war. Hundreds of religious buildings were additionally destroyed, in addition to…
A mosque in the eastern Bosnian village of Fazlagica Kula has been set on fire, just hours before the beginning of Eid-al-Adha. Media reports disclosed that the inside of the mosque and its roof were completely burned. Investigation into the incident is ongoing and the cause has not yet been confirmed, but Bosnian Muslim officials…
