Word: ceric
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Though there is little talk of the war in Sarajevo today, religious leaders trace Bosnia's Islamic revival directly to the horrors people witnessed in the 1990s, when they were children. "This generation grew up overnight," says the country's Grand Mufti, Mustafa Efendi Ceric. "We had an entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four...
...high-profile Muslims have come together to make such a public call for peace. Launched first in Jordan this morning, and then in other countries over the course of the day, the letter gets its final unveiling at a joint press conference in Washington, D.C., this afternoon by Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia, and John Esposito, director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. By pointing out the similarities between the Bible and the Koran, between Christianity and Islam, the letter's signatories are asking Christian leaders to "come together with...
...orchestrated interview at the Saudi embassy in Sarajevo, would provide evidence before accusing organizations of a crime. "If they have evidence then let them show it." A diplomat then questioned whether anything incriminating had been found at Saudi agencies. Why have there been no arrests?" Earlier this month, Mustafa Ceric, head of the Islamic Community in Bosnia, held a press conference in which he distributed a list of dozens of agencies in the country with a note by each one that had been investigated. All were Islamic. Targeting organizations "on the basis of what they could do and not what...