Statement of the Islamic Community
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The Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina firmly believes that Serb propaganda with its deceitful methods is trying to involve some members of European Parliament in the project of spreading of fear from Islam and Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosniaks, as a native European people. Spreading of fabrications and devising alleged threats from Muslims in Bosnia is well known and documented tactic of nationalistic Serb propaganda...
Those who practice takfir , i.e., pronouncing others as disbelievers, they do the worst thing, because they deceit and ascribe to Allah and His Messenger what is not true. They devise a novelty or negative innovation, as delusion that leads them straight to Hell and not to Heaven, as they claim for themselves and for their wrongly oriented group. Instead of being preachers they tend to pose as judges. 
Condemning this possessed act in the strongest sense possible as an act of hostility not only against personnel and buildings that enjoy protection according to both domestic and international law, but also according to the rulings of Sharia law, as well as condemning it as hostile act against Islam, Muslims, Bosniaks and the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we want to once again reiterate and emphasise that spreading of terror... 
I hope this letter finds you in good health as we are approaching January 27, 1945, the day when Auschwitz was liberated and nowadays commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I am writing you as a Bosnian Muslim supporter of the Aladdin Project under the patronage of UNESCO with the aim of countering Holocaust denial... 
Indeed, it is a great pleasure for me to express a sincere appreciation on behalf of the Islamic Community in Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as Muslim Communities in Germany and all European Muslims who are committed to peace and security in Europe to the University of Tübingen for an historic motion that will, for sure, make a new productive and constructive relationship not only between the Muslim Community and the German State and Society, but also between the Muslim World and Europe as a whole.
We Muslims are responsible before God and humanity to introduce and live the meaning of Īmān as a high standard of inner and outer security of man and society as well as self-confidence of human personality in terms of freedom and human rights; we are responsible before God and humanity to explain and live the meaning of Islām as a high principle of peace and security in the world; and we are responsible before God and humanity to show and live the beauty of Ihsān as a high level of human solidarity that would free us from fear and poverty.
Since you are concerned about the relationship between the public media in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Islamic Community and its representatives, please allow me to emphasize the following facts in the first place. The Law on Freedom of Religion and Legal Position of Churches and Religious Communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina guarantees the right to freedom... 
President Abdullah Gül received the Grand Mufti (Islamic cleric), Dr. Mustafa Ceric, and his acompanying muftis at the Çankaya Presidential Palace.
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