On November 13, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republika Srpska, Siniša Karan, stated that the competent authorities had collected data on the existence of 120 parajemats on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entities. Karan stated that the police of the RS controls and intensively monitors these parajams because of, as he said, “potential extremism, terrorism, and extreme Wahhabi radicalism.”
In order to give “weight” to what he said, he said that the issue of parjamat “may soon be discussed by the National Assembly of the RS”, when “all citizens will receive accurate information about it”! Does this mean that Karan’s claims about the existence of 120 parajamats (Muslim communities that operate outside the system of the Islamic Community in BiH) are not true, but that the “correct information” will be known only when and if the entity parliament discusses it?
In order not to wait for the session of the National Assembly of the RS to hear “accurate information”, Zurnal asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RS to answer the following questions:
– Which competent institutions have collected data on the existence of 120 parajemats in the territory of the Republic of Srpska, given that, according to the latest official information published by the media, in August 2020, 11 parajemats were registered in the territory of BiH, mostly in the territory Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
– In which parts of Republika Srpska are there the most registered parajemats and to what extent do they represent a threat to the security of the citizens of Republika Srpska?
– Did the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the RS forward the information, which was presented by Minister Karan, to the Intelligence and Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OBA), as well as to the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is interested in solving this issue?
As expected, they did not receive an answer to any of the questions. What is the goal of marketing the story about the existence of the alleged 120 parajemats in the RS, it is difficult to say, but it is certain that it will intensify inter-ethnic tensions and the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This “information” comes at a time when the war between Hamas and Israel is raging in the Gaza Strip, which is the worst possible political abuse of the tragic events there.
Considering that the Intelligence and Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (OBA) is the most authoritative and the only one competent to communicate accurate information about how many parajemats exist in the whole of BiH, in which parts of the country they are most widespread and to what extent “extreme Wahhabi radicalism” is a threat to the security of the citizens of the RS and all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Žurnal directed questions to the director of the OBA, Almir Džuva. We did not receive a response from that institution either.
The Islamic religious community in BiH proved to be more accessible in relation to this issue.
“The Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina systematically deals with the issue of individuals and groups who try to organize the religious life of Muslims outside its framework. In 2016, the majority of such groups, colloquially referred to as ‘paradžemati’, accepted the regulations and norms of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina and integrated into its structure. Several smaller groups and individuals who did not respond to the call of Islamic Community in BiH for integration remained active outside the structure of IC in BIH, but they are too few to form at least one compact congregation”, the Rijaset IZ Public Relations Office in BiH.
However, they added, the Islamic community never had any indication that these were any militant groups, especially not “terrorist organizations” or “military camps”.
“Attempts to misuse this issue to construct the alleged threat of ‘radical Islamic/Bosniak groups’ are considered by the Islamic community as malicious and tendentious smears,” they said in response.
Let us remind you that 12 years ago the then Minister Stanislav Čađo detected 14 locations where, according to him, “the activities of members of the Wahhabi movement and other extremist and radical organizations were recorded in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, primarily in the territory of Republika Srpska”. How that “problem” increased tenfold, I guess only the current minister Karan knows.
Finally, it is astonishing that the Minister of the Interior of the RS has alleged data on the existence of the alleged 120 parajemats on the territory of that entity, which were (allegedly) collected by the competent authorities, and that, at the same time, neither the competent authorities nor the police of the RS can locate and arrest them for days. convicted pedophile Ivica Mišković, who escaped from the Basic Court building in Banja Luka through a window on November 7, Info Radar reports.
