Bosnia Grand Mufti urges imams to show kindness to migrants

NEWS 06.01.202117:35 0 komentara
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Allah's creatures should be treated humanely, with grace, especially those creatures which have been the most honoured – humans, Bosnian Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic said Wednesday in Sarajevo while speaking to Bihac imams during a seminar titled “Islamic values through example.”

“Bosnia is faced with a wave of migrants before whom the civilised world has closed its doors hermetically shut, not allowing them to even see what their countries look like. It is my duty to point to this problem, this lack of humanity, which cannot be unnoticed. We cannot and do not want to pretend it doesn't exist,” Kavazovic said.

He said that there are migrants who are violent, troublemakers and criminals and that the state must deal with them, but that a “great majority of them, fleeing from misfortune have the right to be received nicely and to respect them and provide them with basic living conditions.”

Bosnia's Una-Sana Canton and Bihac as its administrative centre have been a migrant hotspot over the past two years due to its vicinity to the European border. With ever more migrants coming to the canton, the local authorities have been having trouble maintaining order and preventing crime among the migrants. The locals took to the streets on several occasions, forcing the local authorities to displace the migrants from the city centre to an inhospitable location outside the city where a humanitarian crisis unravelled over the past several weeks.

“We mustn't be xenophobes ourselves, we mustn't close ourselves before them. Our role-models should be the real Muslims in Medina who welcomed those who left their homes and properties. They shared everything with them, despite being poor themselves – and this did not go on for a day or two, but years. This was before the 14th century. Shouldn't we be more humane and smarter today,” the BiH Grand Mufti asked.

He pointed out that imams (Muslim priests) must be an example in “presenting a sublime faith, a higher and humane culture, which was created to make mercy a greater good to the people, to benefit the people.”

The seminar was organised for 50 imams from the entire country with the aim of improving their knowledge of Islamic values and strengthening their position in the promotion of those values.

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