Njegoš: LOMITE MUNAR I DŽAMIJU!!

0:00 Dear friends, peace be upon you.

0:03 Yesterday was May 7th, the day of mosques.

0:06 which is commemorated in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

0:09 A day that marks the

0:11 destruction

0:12 of Ferhadija,

0:14 a national

0:15 monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia,

0:18 a mosque under UNESCO protection

0:20 etc.

0:23 Why is it important to commemorate the day of mosques?

0:27 For many reasons.

0:28 Not just because of the 6

0:31 14 mosques that were deliberately destroyed,

0:35 mostly outside of any military

0:38 conflicts in that area,

0:40 but rather internationally,

0:42 deliberately, systematically,

0:44 to erase every trace of the existence of Islam and Muslims,

0:50 if you will, and Bosniaks in a certain

0:53 in the area.

0:54 It is necessary for those 200 or so mosques,

0:58 which have also been destroyed. It is necessary for those 69

1:02 madrasas, which have also been destroyed.

1:05 We need to remember the day of the mosques

1:08 for the hundreds of other

1:10 religious endowments,

1:12 institutions,

1:14 that are deliberately destroyed to erase the trace of Islam and Muslims

1:20 in a certain area.

1:22 So, to carry out an ethnic cleansing

1:25 people

1:26 specifically Muslims from certain areas, but also all tags that associate

1:32 with Islam and Muslims.

1:34 Of course,

1:35 the most visible traces are the mosques

1:37 which were deliberately,

1:39 systematically

1:40 destroyed. However, what interested me

1:43 and what I actually wanted to say today are actually two approaches.

1:49 the approach of Muslims

1:51 and their attitude towards others,

1:54 sacred places such as churches, like Harvard, synagogues, and so on,

1:59 and where this comes from,

2:01 thus that aggressive,

2:03 animalistic,

2:04 inhuman,

2:06 thus aggressive,

2:08 criminal

2:09 behavior,

2:13 mosque, community center,

2:14 school and other charitable buildings

2:17 Now I will read a few quotes that will clarify for us where one comes from and where

2:24 the other comes from.

2:26 The Prophet (peace be upon him)

2:28 In his covenant

2:31 with the Christians and other Christians,

2:39 Their churches will not be occupied,

2:42 will not be destroyed,

2:44 nor will their number be diminished.

2:48 their churches and crosses

2:51 will not be desecrated,

2:53 nor anything of their property

2:57 will be forced

2:59 to abandon

3:00 their faith.

3:01 And none of them

3:03 will be harmed. Thus,

3:06 these are

3:08 the principles that the Prophet, peace be upon him,

3:11 strictly

3:12 it states,

3:13 in the treaty with the Christians of Neđuran, you have other treaties,

3:20 from the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him,

3:22 which the early Muslims upheld,

3:26 from Hazrat Umar, may Allah be pleased with him,

3:29 to others, the companions who protect,

3:32 the places of worship of others,

3:34 they do not enter them, nor desecrate them,

3:38 and especially, they do not do anything that the Prophet, peace be upon him,

3:41 He explicitly stated that it must not be done.

3:46 This part of the contract you have in Ibn Qayyim, in Abu Yusuf, Kabal Karaj.

3:53 at

3:54 numerous historians,

3:56 Islamic authors,

3:57 who actually say that the fundamental principle of Islam

4:01 and Muslims, towards other places of worship,

4:04 was the matter,

4:06 not causing

4:07 harm,

4:08 prohibition of destruction, desecration

4:11 etc.

4:12 What we could witness,

4:14 not only during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina,

4:24 but also in many other places in the world, where they were preserved,

4:28 religious sites of other religions and

4:29 other affiliations.

4:34 However, on the other hand, we have some other quotes,

4:38 so I will read you two quotes from our region.

4:42 It says, our struggle will not end

4:44 But ours, or ours therefore.

4:47 That is, the struggle will continue until it ends.

4:51 Turks, meaning not just Turks, but Muslims.

4:55 Or them. Therefore, of course,

4:58 it refers to the Gorazde wreath, or Petar

5:02 Njegoš,

5:03 as they call him.

5:06 Listen to the second

5:08 quote. It says, brothers Turks,

5:10 which tells us he means Muslims, as Turks are another nation.

5:15 different, but it actually speaks about Muslims who have embraced Islam,

5:20 he says, brothers Turks

5:22 when it struck,

5:24 then it goes, No accept

5:27 the faith of our ancestors

5:30 We must defend

5:31 the heritage of our homeland

5:34 But break

5:36 inside the mosque

5:38 and the Serbian Christmas logs

5:41 struggle

5:43 And color the Easter

5:44 eggs

5:46 In the blood, our faith will swim

5:49 It would be better if it doesn't sink,

5:52 Eid does not coincide with Christmas

5:55 So,

5:56 these verses

5:58 from the Mountain Wreath, by Njegoš, directly call

6:02 for destruction

6:04 everything related to Islam and Muslims,

6:07 to killing,

6:09 and the so-called

6:10 investigation of the Poturica.

6:12 So, investigation here does not mean

6:14 police

6:15 interrogation,

6:17 research

6:18 of something, no, investigation here means ethnic cleansing.

6:21 So, destruction

6:23 the entire villages, regions, and cities where Muslims lived. Thus,

6:35 this is a historical truth from the beginning of the 18th century,

6:37 where there were actually hundreds, if not thousands, of Muslims killed,

6:38 settled.

6:39 Muslims.

6:41 precisely.

6:42 in the context of

6:43 this investigation.

6:44 Thus, this investigation of Poturica, as it is called,

6:50 which has somehow been glorified in former Yugoslavia.

6:51 from numerous malicious individuals

6:54 and those who hate Islam and Muslims. For them, this text is

7:05 fascists,

7:07 criminals,

7:08 to kill the innocent and destroy places of worship,

7:12 therefore,

7:13 Muslim places of worship, namely mosques,

7:16 schools,

7:17 Other

7:18 properties.

7:19 So, here we have two approaches. One approach advocates for the preservation

7:24 of that,

7:26 namely foreign objects,

7:28 sacred properties, and so on, as we saw from the speech of the Prophet Satu,

7:34 or what the late President Izetbegović said

7:38 when he stated

7:39 preserved

7:40 the Assembly Church in Sarajevo

7:43 and the demolished Ferhadija in Banja Luka

7:46 speak about us, or rather about them.

7:50 You know, on May 7, 1993.

7:54 The year they wanted to destroy Tarhadio.

7:58 So, they stopped the traffic.

8:01 They stopped the traffic in that wider area, planted explosives inside the mosque.

8:06 And after that, they blew the mosque up. Imagine how wicked they were. Imagine.

8:12 What was the awareness of those people that they came with excavators afterwards,

8:18 digging

8:19 the foundations of that mosque. It doesn't matter that it's UNESCO, it doesn't matter that it's protected, it doesn't matter that it's a cultural monument, it doesn't matter... No, and then after that, they threw it into the Vrbas, from vehicles from

8:32 far places, just to destroy

8:34 any trace of Islam and Muslims. On the other hand, we have the cathedral, alhamdulillah preserved in Sarajevo.

8:41 We have the imam's guidance.

8:42 Preserved in Sarajevo, we have where the Bosniak Muslims were mostly safe.

8:47 Religious sites,

8:49 which our police protected so that, God forbid, no one would harm these sacred sites. Thus, on the other hand, we see that this was a systematic approach,

9:02 planned, and in fact it was implemented

9:05 of this mountain wreath, the idea of the mountain wreath or these modern investigations.

9:10 where we see that something called literature,

9:13 directly inspires criminals

9:15 to commit crimes, and they do so in the name of some ideal,

9:21 in the name of some imagined things, etc.

9:24 So, these are indeed things we should remember,

9:28 things we need to

9:30 talk about. Do you know that many mosques in Bosnia and Herzegovina

9:35 were destroyed

9:36 after the Dayton Agreement? So there were no more military activities,

9:42 there were no more conflicts.

9:44 Do you know that mosques were destroyed even until 199

9:47 1998.

9:49 Years

9:50 Do you know that, for example, in Tomislavgrad or Hlivno, the last mosque destroyed in Stepanići was, I believe, destroyed in 1997.