Serbia: Soccer player banned from national team over anthem

Serbia: Soccer player banned from national team over anthem

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash

Serbia: One dead in Pakistani-Afghan clash

Via B92:

A man was murdered in the early hours of Tuesday near Subotica in a fight that broke out between two groups of illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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According to the newspaper's source with the Serbian police (MUP), both groups were hiding on a farm near the northern Serbian town when the Pakistanis attacked the Afghans.

After this, the Afghans reportedly decided to retaliate, with the incident resulting in the murder.

(source)

Belgrade: Mufti comments on colleague's presidential bid

Belgrade: Mufti comments on colleague's presidential bid

Via B92:

Mufti of Belgrade Muhamed Jusufspahić says Mufti Muamer Zukorlić's decision to take part in the presidential election showed that ours is "a free country".

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"Is it normal for someone who urges civil disobedience to be a presidential candidate? Will we have candidatures from bishops and rabbis next?," Jusufspahić stated, but noted that these were "issues of lesser importance that must be answered by the state, rather than by a mufti".

"To me, the essential issue is - who am I supposed to complain to over the abuse of faith and cloth? On the other hand, former Evangelical pastor Joachim Gauck recently became president in Germany, and Germany is not a poorly ordered country," said Jusufspahić.

(source)

Serbia: Mufti to run in presidential race

Serbia: Mufti to run in presidential race

Via B92:

Islamic Community in Serbia Chief Mufti Muamer Zukorlić announced on Saturday that he will run in the upcoming presidential elections.

“My candidacy is based on conviction that the state and the society are on the verge of a precipice and I will offer an authentic salvation program which will be acceptable for all Serbian citizens,” he told a press conference in Novi Pazar.

(source)

Serbia: Muslim leader urges reconciliation with rival

Serbia: Muslim leader urges reconciliation with rival

Kosovo: 21,000 Serbs apply for Russian citizenship, say they fear genocide

Kosovo: 21,000 Serbs apply for Russian citizenship, say they fear genocide

"Russia, help"

Serbia: Rape sparks protest against refugee centre

Serbia: Rape sparks protest against refugee centre

(6000 residents, 2500 asylum seekers)

Serbia: 17 arrested after attack on US embassy in Bosnia

Serbia: 17 arrested after attack on US embassy in Bosnia

shooter Mevlid Jasarevic

Serbia: Muslims to boycott census

Serbia: Muslims to boycott census

Via Eurasia Review:

In a bid to end longstanding “discrimination and state terror against Bosniaks”, the Sandzak and Bosniak national councils called on the Bosniaks not to participate in the current census in Serbia — which runs through October 15th.

The Islamic Community Mufti in Serbia, Muamer Zukorlic, claims that the census number of Muslims [in Serbia] will be falsified, or the number will be less than the actual.

“It happened during all earlier censuses, our community was marginalized and we were denied the rights we have been asking for for decades,” Zukorlic told SETimes.

(source)

Serbia: Genocide suspect Ratko Mladic arrested

Serbia: Genocide suspect Ratko Mladic arrested

Serbia: Sandzak languishes amid bitter Muslim divide

Serbia: Sandzak languishes amid bitter Muslim divide

Via AFP:

Overwhelmed by cheap Chinese competition and divided by rival Muslim groups, Serbia's once-thriving Sandzak region is languishing in a deep economic and social malaise that has sparked the first calls for autonomy.

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In recent years, a bitter battle has been waged for influence among Sandzak's Muslim religious community, stoked by two rival muftis. So far incidents have been minor, mainly skirmishes over rival property claims.

On one side of the divide is a group led by Adem Zilkic, which is based in the capital Belgrade and recognised by the Serbian government as the official interlocutor for the country's Muslims.

But his influence is being undercut by the mufti of Novi Pazar, Muamer Zukorlic, who accuses his rival of kowtowing to Belgrade and who set up a rival organisation in 2007.

(source)

Serbia: Muslims want apology for Mufti photomontage

Serbia: Muslims want apology for Mufti photomontage


Serbia's Islamic Community on Saturday protested against a photomontage published in the daily Blic and demanded a "symbolic" compensation of 100 million euros (124 million dollars).

Daily Blic ran a photomontage of the leader of the Islamic community Muamer Zukorlic dressed in an Orthodox Christian bishop robe.

Serbia: 'Look to the future' says Bosnian Muslim leader

Serbia: 'Look to the future' says Bosnian Muslim leader


At the end of a two-day visit to Serbia on Wednesday, Bosnia's Muslim leader Sulejman Tihic, said the two countries should forget the past and look to the future and better mutual relations.