The Daily Mail often reports news that other sources don’t dare speak about, but it all too frequently does so in a clueless and stupid manner, and this is yet another example: this “ISIS stronghold” in a “picturesque European village” wasn’t just “discovered”; it was the subject of a Reuters profile last March. Nonetheless, this report contains some useful information. It is noteworthy that this outpost of the Islamic State is in Bosnia, where we have been repeatedly assured that all the Muslims are moderate, peace-loving pro-American secular people.
“ISIS stronghold discovered in picturesque European village where everyone is ‘ready to respond to the summons to jihad,'” by Jenny Stanton, Mailonline, July 19, 2015:
Islamic State militants have established a stronghold in a picturesque village in mainland Europe where everyone is ‘ready to respond to the summons to jihad (holy war)’, it has been revealed.
Land in Osve, Bosnia-Hercegovina, is being bought by ISIS fighters and security services believe the area is used to train terrorists.
The discovery comes after the mountain village of Gornja Maoca in the country, where residents fly the notorious ISIS flag, was raided by police.
According to Patrick Hill and Ed Wight at the Sunday Mirror, at least 12 jihadis trained in Osve and travelled to Syria in recent months. Five have reportedly been killed.
A number of high-profile terrorists are said to have bought land and properties in the area.
Terrorism expert Dzevad Galijasevic told the Sunday Mirror that a large number of people are going to Syria from the village, which he describes as the source of a major terror threat.
‘There is no one there who isn’t ready to respond to the summons to jihad,’ he added.
However, radical Muslims are a minority in Bosnia, which has a mostly moderate and secular Muslim population.
However some youngsters have embraced the ideas of the puritanical Sunni Wahhabi sect.
In April, Bosnia introduced jail terms of up to 10 years for citizens who fight or recruit fighters for conflicts abroad.
In September, Bosnian police detained 16 people on charges of financing terrorist activities, recruiting and fighting for radical groups in Syria and Iraq, authorities said.
The arrests were made in 17 raids across the Balkan country. Television footage showed police making arrests in Gornja Maoca….
Myclplik says
Well isn’t that interesting, but all of these supposed “moderates” elected Alija Izetbegovic durning the 90’s who wanted to create an Islamic State, which would have included all of the Balkans. Certainly “Bosniaks” voted for violent jihad as a majority of their population when given the chance. I doublt this village represents some small minority, just a matter of power and opportunity.
Myxlplik says
Furthermore, naturally Bosnian Serbs did not want to live in an Islamic State as proposed by Bosnias Muslim electorate, as minorities … just look at the examples we have as to how they would be treated. What are people to do in the face of such evil?
Shane says
Bill Clinton was wrong for helping these people; we should have stayed out of that war. How about targeting this village with a missile and eliminating hundreds of jihadists with one blow?
Michael Copeland says
“There can be no peace … . The Islamic movement can and must take power
as soon as it is morally strong enough … to destroy the non Islamic power … .”
Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia
(backed by NATO and the EU).
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/5981-islam-s-vision-of-destruction-muslims-speak
cs says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Declaration
The Islamic Declaration (Bosnian: Islamska deklaracija) was written by Alija Izetbegović (1925–2003). Originally published in 1969–70, and republished in 1990 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia, it presents his views on Islam and modernization. He was an ideological pan-Islamist, who participated in the Mladi Muslimani (Young Muslims) organization between 1941 and 1947, before the Tito government declared the organization illegal.[citation needed] The book was later used against him and other pan-Islamists in a trial in Sarajevo in 1983, which resulted in his condemnation to 13 years of penal servitude for an “attack against socialism [and] willingness to build an Islamic State in Bosnia”.[citation needed] In the opinions of historians Noel Malcolm and Ivo Banac from the Bosnian Institute, no plan for the transformation of Bosnia into an Islamic state was included in the book, nor in the political program of Izetbegović’s SDA (which he founded in 1990).[1][2][3][4][5][6] The declaration remains a source of controversy. Serbs, who were opposed to Izetbegović, often quoted the declaration as indicative of an intent to create an Iranian style Muslim republic in Bosnia.[7] Passages from the declaration were frequently quoted by Izetbegović’s opponents during the 1990s, who considered it to be an open statement of Islamic fundamentalism.[8] The opinion is shared by some Western authors such as John Schindler.[9] Indeed, in his book, Izetbegović praised Pakistan as a model for Bosnian society and declared that “there can be no peace or co-existence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions”.[10]
Wow how manipulated we were, I was, how fool I was. what a clown, I should have researched more.
Champ says
“There is no one there who isn’t ready to respond to the summons to jihad”
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Sure, THEY are “ready” for jihad, but of course those they intend to murder in cold blood, are not ready for battle. Mohammedans hide in the shadows and strike innocent bystanders when they least expect it. These soldiers for allah aren’t brave warriors, but instead they’re evil, soulless, serial killers.
Bender says
Bomb the Serbs. Celebrate “Srebrenica genocide”, release propaganda against the Serbs, support muslims…
The West made a TREMENDOUS MISTAKE in ex-Yugoslavia, supporting the muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo against the Christian Serbs.
Shane says
Yes, Clinton made a huge mistake taking the side of Muslims against Christians. Now there are more Muslims in Europe waiting to join the jihad against the West.
Angemon says
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight………
1939, Germany:
However, radical Nazis are a minority in Germany, which has a mostly moderate and secular Nazi population
Deborah says
Sufi muslims(anatolian sufism) are mostly in Bosnia. not moderate or secular.
John Doe says
Argemon, you got the point!!! The sarcasm is awesome sometimes!!! It makes us laugh even when things are not right, not right at all. We live in the world of apologists. They keep undermining the seriousness of this madness.
Cecilia Ellis says
Angemon has superb way with words! And the sarcasm is indeed awesome! Yet, he also has brilliant analyses. I’ve learned a lot from him and, yes . . . laughed a lot because of his comments. Keep it up, Angemon . . . it is refreshing . . .
SSI01 says
Argemon is on the money. This entire area has a history dating back to medieval times of Western v. Muslim conflict. Local non-Muslims have seen their enemies employ every deceptive tactic known to man – and plenty of overtly-violent ones – to spread their poisonous beliefs. How on earth can those now in authority maintain they’ve been hoodwinked by these radicals who have suddenly materialized?
PRCS says
From the article:
“Gornja Maoca (pictured) is home to Bosnian followers of Wahhabism, a strict form of Sunni Islam
Followed by:
“Arab mercenaries turned up…embraced a radical version of Islam ”
So, which is it? A strict form of Islam or a radical version of it?
Ice Star says
Bill Clinton is responsible for this creating the Islamic state of Bosnia.
dumbledoresarmy says
Look on the bright side.
The moment *somebody* in authority in Europe in just one country or another gets a clue, this jihadi base will become what our military men refer to as a “Target-Rich Environment”.
epistemology says
No way the muzzies in ex-Yugoslavia are peaceful and secular. In 1970 when Tito was in power Ilya Izetbegovic wrote his “Islamic Declaration” claiming he wanted to live under sharia law. This pamphlet was published clandestinely of course. Today imam Idriz from Macedonia wants to build a big Islamic centre in Munich with a mosque, shopping mall, hairdressers and lawyers. Everything halal. Muzzies are the same way everywhere they want to rule the world
mortimer says
Bosniaks are mostly secular due to the heresy of secular Yugoslavia. They are obviously experiencing the re-awakening of RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC among the youth. School teachers, social workers and police need to learn the standard Sunnite jihad doctrine in order to recognize RADICAL ISLAMIC CHIC when it’s in their face. Presently, they are blind.
mortimer says
due to the heritage of secular Yugoslavia
Peggy says
RS (Republic of Srpska) the Serbian held part of Bosnia wants a referendum on seceding from Bosnia. US has called it a provocation and obviously will be ready to bomb Serbs again in case this happens.
Funny how it wasn’t provocation when Yugoslavia was breaking up and the US supported all the states. The US even supported Kosovo when breaking up from Serbia and actively got involved by bombing Serbia into submission.
Now it’s provocation when Serbs want to break away from this Islamic nightmare. The US has been in love with Islam for a very long time but it’s time this love is extinguished.
Paladin says
Look at that ramshackle house tacked together with shoestring and chewing gum. This is a perfect symbol of the level of learning, ability and knowledge when Islam is a major factor in your society. If you’re not hacking each other to death ala Boko Haram and their machetes, you are trying to eke out a modest living just to survive your squalid existence under the tyranny of Islam. Who here is reading my comments on a computer or phone developed using Islamic technology?
SSI01 says
I maintained then, as I do now, we were helping the wrong side in that war while Clinton was busy staining dresses in the White Office. It would have been better to abstain from overt assistance to the Serbs while providing them assistance sub-rosa – or encouraging the Russians to do so.
Foley says
How can one be a “secular Muslim?” This is nonsense. And there is no such thing as moderate Islam: there is only Islam. In reading the Koran I never found one instance of this modifier for Islam.