Bosnia: One man killed and three wounded in an Islamophobic attack in Bosnia
17-07-2009
By Sead Busuladzic
Last night in city of Mostar in southern Bosnia and Hercegovina a fight occoured when a group of young Muslim men were attacked by another group young men from a bar near by. The fighting started after insults were directed at a young man who was coming from prayer around 10 o'clock.
Young men came out from the bar and started attacking the Muslim man, says a woman who was an eyewitness to the incident.
Three young Muslim men were seriousley hurt while a young muslim man who was trying to calm down the situation was killed. The young man Magdi Dizdareviæ, a 34 year old Muslim who was attack in the head and taken to hospital, where he later died because of his scull was crushed.
The media reported about the incident as an fight between Islamic radical wahhabis and ordinary young men who were siting in a bar and celebrating. Although they reported that all the involved men that were questioned by the police denied that they belonged to any radical Islamic movement the media insisted refering to them as wahhabis.
The highest Islamic organ in Mostar condemned the attacks on Muslims as well as the media reported about the incident as Islamophobic.The media in Bosnia and Hercegovina have been accused earlier by the highest representative of Muslims in that country Reis ul ulama Mustafa Ceric for spreading hatred towards Islam.
The furneral will be held tommorrow saturday 18 o'clock.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=16514
17-07-2009
By Sead Busuladzic
Last night in city of Mostar in southern Bosnia and Hercegovina a fight occoured when a group of young Muslim men were attacked by another group young men from a bar near by. The fighting started after insults were directed at a young man who was coming from prayer around 10 o'clock.
Young men came out from the bar and started attacking the Muslim man, says a woman who was an eyewitness to the incident.
Three young Muslim men were seriousley hurt while a young muslim man who was trying to calm down the situation was killed. The young man Magdi Dizdareviæ, a 34 year old Muslim who was attack in the head and taken to hospital, where he later died because of his scull was crushed.
The media reported about the incident as an fight between Islamic radical wahhabis and ordinary young men who were siting in a bar and celebrating. Although they reported that all the involved men that were questioned by the police denied that they belonged to any radical Islamic movement the media insisted refering to them as wahhabis.
The highest Islamic organ in Mostar condemned the attacks on Muslims as well as the media reported about the incident as Islamophobic.The media in Bosnia and Hercegovina have been accused earlier by the highest representative of Muslims in that country Reis ul ulama Mustafa Ceric for spreading hatred towards Islam.
The furneral will be held tommorrow saturday 18 o'clock.
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=16514