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THE POSITION OF MOSLI
By Esad
Aever throughout the centuries of
their existence on the territory
which is now Yugoslavia have
Moslems enjoyed such a position
as they do in "Tito's Yugoslavia".
Nairn Efencija Hadtlabdid hinself,
the head of the Islamic community
in Yugoslavia, has stated that in
Tito's time the Islamic community
has become consolidated, laid new
foundations and achieved consi-derable
results.
According to the Constitution and
the laws in socialist, nonaligned
Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Moslems
are, together with the other two
major religious communities in the
country — roman Catholics and
members of the Orthodox church,
completely free to profess their
religious feelings and attend
religious services. This is equally
valid for the members of the other
smaller religious communities and
sects, which number aproximate-Iy30- .
The church is separate from the
state in Yugoslavia, but the state
does, nonetheless, offer specific
assistance, to the religious com-munities.
This assistance takes the
form of the social and medical
insurance of the priests and the
protection of the cultural and
historical landmarks. The religious
communities are also free to found
schools for the believers and their
children and for the training of
priests — but these are not
schools of general education.
It is in such circumstances, which
both the church and the state have
both long esteemed as favourable,
that the Islamic community iz
active in Yugoslavia. This takes on
special significance bearing in
mind that Yugoslavia is a mult-inational
community on the
boundary between the East and the
was to start at 4:00 pm, and by that
time, the hill was covered with
people. I asked the person next to
us what the capacity of the
stadium was and was told that it
held 7,000, and that 2,500 were to
perform in the program I asked
about the population of Jajce and
was told that there were 15,000 in
the city itself and 40,000 including
its environment. As there were at
least 2,000 persong on the hill,
there were approximately 12,000
participants, not spectators, of
this program, as these people
came to pay homage to Tito, not to
be entertained. The performers
were the youth of the area from the
first grade through high school,
and they wore colorful, but simple
costumes of red, white, blue and
yellow, as well as native dress, and
danced and sang to folk, patriotic,
and rock music, It was a moving
tribute to President Tito, and one
that was enacted in every part of
Yugoslavia on that day.
The death of Presedent Tito,
although expected, nevertheless,
came as a heavy blow to the
people. Tito had led their fight
against the Nazis and their native
collaborators, and their victory
gave them self confidence and a
standard of living never before
enjoyed. Above all, they achieved
"jedinstvo", the unity of the Slavic
peoples of Yugoslavia, for the first
time in history.
Weere in the fields on the family
homestead at Gllna in Croatia with
Dusan, one of my two cousins, and
his family when a member of the
Peric
West, a country whose social
system is founded on self--managem- ent socialism. The
concept of Islam in Yugoslavia
does not only mean adherence to
the Moslem creed (although this is
the major significance for the
believers, but also belonging to a
specific culture and tradition and
in recent times, to a distinct
Moslem nation.
It can freely be said that the
constitution of a distinct Moslem
nation in Yugoslavia, which came
about at the end of the sixties, was
the most important event in the
recent history of the Moslems in
Yugoslavia. The Turkish conquest
of what is now Yugoslavia during
the fourteenth, fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries and the Turkish
occupation is the source of Islam
in Yugoslavia. Islam left its
deepest roots in the constituent
republic of Bosnia and Herzegovi-na
(the central part of Yugoslavia)
but there are alsp Moslems in
Macedonia, Montenegro, and in
the southern regions of Serbia.
According to the last census in
1971, there were 1,729,932 Mos-lems
— members of the Moslem
nation, 1,482,430 of whom in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. These are
in the main Moslems of Slavic
origin, who speak Serbo-Croatia- n.
If to this figure we add the
members of Albanian nationality,
where it is calculated that there are
some one million Moslems and
members of Turksih nationality
and others who have not stipulate
to which nationality they belong —
it is considered that there are some
three million Moslems in Yugosla-via,
which has a population of 22
million.
family came to tell us that Tito had
died. All work stopped on the farm
(the only time work stopped during
our two week visit) while we all wat
our two week visit) while we all
watched television documentaries
of Tito's life and times, so
intimately identified with those of
the Yugoslav people. It was a
moving, sad, and tearful occasion.
We watched the four hour funeral
and processional on television in a
hotel in Karlovac, and went to visit
Tito's mausoleum in Belgrade four
days after the funeral. We arrived at
9:00 am, and it took two hours of
slow walking to reach the mauso-leum.
Busload after busload of
young people from the schools,
peasants from the countryside,
business men and women from the
city, and people in the unifroms of
the Army and Navy came to pay
homage. There was no mistaking
the genuineness of their grief and
the respect and love they had for
their great hero.
In the windows of every business,
large and small, posters appeared
stressing "jedinstvo", the united
struggle If all the groups which had
defeated the Nazis, and this was
reflected in the conversation of the
average citizen. They feel that unity
achieved their victory and will
maintain their independence. They
won their freedom by their own
struggle and not with the help of
outside "liberators", and it is a rare
family that did not lose one or
more of its members in that
struggle. Monuments in every city
and village testify to this fact. Their
pride in their achievements as
As one of the nations of Yugo-slavia,
the Moslems have the same
natinal, political and cultural rights
as the other nations: followers of
Islam also have the same rights as
other believers. Equality,
brotherhood and unity remain the
essential characteristics of
relations amongst the nations and
nationalities of Yugoslavia. Care is
taken in the regions with nationally
mixed population that all nations
are proportionally represented in
the governmental organs, socio--politic- al
organisations and self--managem- ent
organs. This is valid
at all levels, from the enterprise
right up to the Federation. It has,
for example, been the custom in
Bosnia and Herzegovina for some
time that the three key functions in
the republic go to a Moslem, a Serb
and a Croat — members of the
three most populous nations in the
republic.
Religion is considered --a personal
matter in Yugoslavia and part of
man's overall freedoms. In Yugo-slavia
there are two thousand
mosques, 300 of which were built
after the war. the Islamic com-munity
also has a thousand lesser
places of worship and religious
and is served landmarks, by some
1,800 imams.
The Moslem community has its
own schools, while the Islamic
Faculty of Theology was founded
some years ago in Sarajevo (the
capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
— a town which has preserved
much oriental character in its
architecture. The Moslems of
Yugoslavia also go on pilgrimage
to Mecca and other shrines of
Islam.
The only restriction imposed by
the Yugoslav society on the
religious communities is that the
religious feelings of the believers
should not be abused to political
ends. Attempts at such abuse are,
however, opposed at the very
outset by the believers themselves
and the majority of the priests.
Yugoslavs shows in their faces
conversation, and we were
chagrined when we were asked,
"Why didn't Presedent Carter
attend Tito's funeral?"
There is speculation generated
outside Yugoslavia as to whether a
separatist Croatian movement
would split and destroy Yugosla-via.
In my observation, the wish is
father to the thought. The so-call- ed
economic basis for separatism was
that too large a percentage of
income from the more developed
areas like Croatia went to the less
developed areas in the south. Rich
mineral deposits have been
discovered in these "undeveloped''
areas, and with the construction of
the railroad from Bar on the
Adriatic Coast of Montenegro to
Belgrade, these minerals are
geginning to be exploited, thus
helping to enrich the entire country
of Yugoslavia. In addition, the ever
expanding transpdrtation complex
of highways, bus systems, trains,
and air travel and increasing af-fluence
of the people enables
Serbs to visit Croatia and Croatians
to visit Serbia, and this tends to
ameliorate these age-ol- d tensions.
Television sets are widely owned in
the country as well as the city, and
national unity is stressed in
programming. Finally, the youth of
Yugoslavia raised in the spirit of
"jedinstvo" will not respond to any
separatist move.
A united Yugoslavia plays a
constructive role for world peace,
and it is to their interest, as well as
ours, that it continue to do so.
POVODOMNEREDANA KOSOVU "
NE6ENASNACETI
Martovski I aprilskl dogadaji na
Kosovu iznenadill su, donekle, i
nas u domovini, a kamoli naSe
prijatelje u iseljeniStvu. Medutim,
kad dovjek mafo dublje zade u
suStinu tih dogadaja, onda oni
manje iznenaduju. Oni su se,
doduSe, pojavili sad u ne§to maso-vnij- oj
lormi na Kosovu, ali je
neprijatelj godlnama potkopavao
tlo i pokuSavao da, poput krtice,
"ore" onamo gdje je mislio da 6e
mu biti najmekSe. Ali, taj nepri-jatelj
se je nekoliko puta mogao
uvjeriti, a uvjerit 6e se i sada, da je
Titova Jugoslavija, i poslije nje-go- ve
fizidke smrti, bila i ostala
"tvrd orah" i da 6e prije zube
polomiU, nego Sto 6e nju ne samo
razbiti, nego ni nagristi.
Mi smo stalno isticali i stalno
istidemo da samoupravna socijalis-tidk- a
Jugoslavija nikad ni ne
pomiSIja da izvozi svoju revoluciju.
Medutim, nije ona kriva Sto njena
privladna revolucija, i nehotidno,
sama sebe "izvozi". NaSa dosljed-n- a
nesvrstana spoljna politika i
samoupravni socijalistiiki sistem
na unutraSnjem planu, djeluje kao
magnet na doskoro ugnjetene kolo-nijal- ne
narode, koji danas pred-stavlja- ju
veliku snagu u ovom
naSem uzburkanom svijetu. Prema
tome, naSa zemlja, boredi se protiv
podjele svijeta na antagonistiCke
blokove, izaziva divljenje kod pro-gresivn- og
svijeta, ali istodobno i
smetnju svim reakcionarnim krugo-vim- a
na ovoj naSoj planeti.
Upravo stoga se ne treba duditi
kad agenture takvih reakcionarnih
snaga, pomodu svojih neiscrpnih
fondova, uspiju da tu i tamo nadu
po nekog izroda i u naSof zemlji da
organizuje nerede za njihove mra-6n- e
planove. Ti krugovi ne tale
milione, pa ni milijarde dolara da
potkopaju reiim u nekoj zemlji koji
njima ne odgovara ili da ubiju
driavnika na 6elu takvih zemalja.
Primjera za to imamo dosta (Aljen-d- e,
Lumumba i drugi).
Mnogo nije poznato, iako to nije
nikakva tajna, da na delu tih
reakcionarnih krugova stoji tzv.
Crna Internacionala, ili bolje po-zna- ta
u svijetu kao Katolidka akcija,
Ta multinacionalna kompanija ras-pola- ie
neopisivim bogatstvom, pa
njoj niSta ne predstavlja davati
milione i milijarde dolara da bi
sufinancirala takve organizacije
kao Sto je CIA i slidne. Ona, preko
svojih potpladenih agenata stvara
dalekosetne planove za rovarenje u
pojedinim zemljama. Nedu "ogri-jeSi- ti
duSu" ako s vremena na
vrijeme pomislim, nijesujli Papa
Jovan II. Bietinski i Majski, kao
Poljaci, plans ki doSli na svoje
pololaje. A rezultat je ve6 poznat.
Isto tako se пеби "ogrijeSiti" ako
гебет da ta ista CIA meSetari i u
naSoj zemlji. Ona tako vjeSto radi,
da tejednom rukom gladipo lieu, a
drugom ti zabada noi u sree.
Svjesni smo dinjenice da su робеИ
davno, a Sto nisu poluiili neki
znatniji uspjeh zasluga je naSeg
zdravog i stabllnog druStvenog
organizma, zasnovanog na istin-sko- m
bratstvu i jedinstvu. Jednom
rijedju, uvjeride se svi izrodi i
njihovi gospodari da 6emo se
nemilosredno suprotstaviti svim
izdajnicima koji na jedan ili drugi
nadin sluie neprijateljima naSe
zemlje.
Znamo Sto se je dogodilo 1948.
godine. Danas nam skidaju kapu i
priznaju da smo bili u pravu, 6ak i
oni koji su nas onda napadali.
Znamo Sto se je dogodilo podet-ko- m
sedamdesetih godina, kad je
divljala euforija naciolizma u po-- .
jedinim krajevima naSe zemlje. I to
smo, dostojanstveno, bez proli-ven- e
krvi, uguSili u samom za6et-k- u.
Medutim, dokazalo se i tada da
neprijatelj nije potpuno dotuden i
da stalno treba biti budan. On je
ponoyo, sada, podetkom osam-deseil- h
godina, digao gl'avu. sfu-le- ti istom neprijatelju, na seat s
vojstven nadin, grupa filozofa
naSih najvedlh unlverziteskih cen-tar- a
istupila je javno svojim smi-Sljeni- m
neprijatelskim zahtjevima.
Cak su traiili I svoje slutbeno
glasilo. Istodobno je katolidki kler
pokuSao da narod poistovjeti s
katoli6kom vferom. Oni su bes-ramn- o
pokuSali da rehabilituju
ratnog zlo6inca Stepinca. Uz njih
su stali neki preostaci bivSeg
maspokreta Savke Dab6evi6 i Mike
Tripala, na 6elu sa Franjom Tud-mano-m
(inaie generalom NOB)
koji je sad, za tu neprijateljsku
rabotu, ponovo dobio tri godine
zatvora.
Prema tome, vidljivo je, kako
neprijatelj pokuSava da potkopava
temelje naSe socijalistidke zajed-nic- e,
koja je krvlju stedena. Medu-tim,
ta naSa zajednica je toliko
6vrsta i tako organizovana da je ni
najjaii pot res ne mote ni uzdrmati,
a kamoli sruSiti ili destabilizovati.
Tako su se i sada u ovoj prljavoj
raboti Sto se je dogodila na Kosovu
naSli na okupu sav taj oloS u
emigraciji, povezani sa slidnim
izdajnidkim oloSem u naSoj zemlji.
Oni su organizovani i rade ko-ordinira- no
sve od Zapadne Evrope
pa do SAD. Svi su oni, bez obzira
na razlidite politidke motive, uje-dinje- ni
i, ruku pod ruku, marSiraju
protiv nas, pokuSavajuii da odvoje
Albance od srpskog, crnogorskog,
turskog, makedonskog i musli-mansko- g
livlja na Kosovu, raduna-ju6- i,
svakako, na ротоб Envera
Hodle. Medutim, prevarili su se u
radunu.
DoduSe, uspjeli su da stvore neSto
panike kod nedutnih Albanaca u
toj pokrajini, uspjeli su da nadine i
neSto materijalne Stete i da izgubi
tivote desetak nedutnih ljudi. Me-dutim,
uspjeli su i joS neSto, a to
je, da mobliliSu ceo naS narod od
Triglava do Devdelije i od Subotice
do Jadrana. Slovenci su medu
prvima poruSili da Kosovo nije
albansko nego jugoslovensko. To
isto su udinili Hrvati s jednog kraja
do drugog te naSe republike.
SH6no su postupili gradani Bosne i
Hercegovine, Srbije, Crne Gore,
Makedoniie i Vojvodine, kao i sve
redom organizacije Sirom Jugo-slav'!
je.
Medutim, u ovoj borbi protiv
albanskog nacionalizma I ireden-tizm- a,
vodi se sirogo габипа da se
ne bi povrifedio ponos albanskog
naroda koji listom osuduje taj
neprijateljski akt isto tako kao i svi
ostali gradani Jugoslavije. Bilo je,
na primjer, sludajeva (u opStini
Podujevo) gdje su sami Albanci
razbili demontracije. A i sada, u toj
borbi protiv takvog nacionalistii-ko- g
zla, Albanci рогибији "Pqstite
nas da se mi obraiunamo sa
izdajnicima u naSoj sredini". Oni
su, zajedno sa 90.000 komunista
u toj pokrajini. zaista sposobni da
to udine, a naro6ito kad vide da su
svi naSi narodi i narodnosti 6vrsto
uz njih.
Da neko ne bi pomislio da su
Albanci na Kosovu imali neke
druge razloge (socijalne na primjer)
za pobunu, pokuSademo da 6inje-nicam- a
odstranimo i takve aluzije:
Od vrlo zaostale sredine, gdje su
tene vjekovima bile zatvorene u
avlifske zidine, gdje je svega 20%
naroda bilo pismeno, odnosno
polupismeno, gdje se poljoprivre-do- m
bavilo viSe od 80% stanov-niitv- a,
gdje su sela bila u tami bez
elektriinog osvjetljenja, gdje pute-v- a
nije bilo osim kozjih, danas je
stvorena jedna zajednica sa naj-brli- m
razvojem u naSoj zemlji.
Od male palanke, PriStina je danas
postala vrlo moderni grad sa preko
1 30.000 stanovnika. U njoj djeluje
Akademija nauka i umjetnosti,
Univerzitet sa desetak fakufteta i
oko 50.000 studenata (dok ih naSa
najrazvijenija republika Slovenija,
ima samo 30.000). Dalje, u pokraji-ni
danas radi 307.542 osnovne--osmogodiSn- je
Skole I 74.00 sred-77- 7
Skola.
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