Academician and professor at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo, Enes Karic, in an essay written for the newspaper “Preporod”, commented on the latest events in Buzim and the “problem” created by the billboard congratulating the Christmas and New Year holidays.
At the beginning of his text, an academician explained that as a Muslim he is against removing billboards and removing Christmas and New Year’s greetings in Buzim.
”For a long time, thirty-eight years, I have several folders in which I store my modest notes and essays. On the folders, I used tint pencil and wrote ‘Shouts 1’, ‘Shouts 2‘, and so on. And this humble essay will go into one of those folders. I’m not happy to have been writing ‘shouts‘ for almost four decades, but what can I do! The world lasts and goes past, besides, above, and against our will. Usually so. So, to be clear, as a Muslim, I am against removing billboards or removing the public Christmas and New Year greetings in the city of Buzim. This public Christmas and New Year’s greeting is in no way directed against our religion of Islam, nor against our Bosniak nation, nor against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), ” Karic wrote.
Karic cited one piece of evidence that shows how this greeting is not contrary to all of the above.
”The joy of Christians, Catholics or Orthodox, who will travel through Buzim and see that they are congratulated on Christmas and New Year 2022. That traveler and citizen, that Catholic and Orthodox, they are neither HDZ nor SNSD, they are not destroyers of BiH. They are simply travelers, they are people who are looking forward to that greeting. They perceive the greeting as a welcome expressed to them in Buzim. Even though I am not looking for reciprocal love or reciprocal patriotism, but I have to mention the following: I would be happy to read a billboard or the inscription above the street that says ‘Happy Eid and good health to you, Muslim traveler’ in Siroki Brijeg, Grude,or Medjugorje,” he stated.
Photo: Preporod
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