Open letter of the Bosniak - Canadian Community to the Monister of National Defence of Canada
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We, the undersigned Bosniak - Canadian organizations, express our disappointment with your decision to cancel a scheduled presentation by Dr. Zijad Delic, the Executive Director of the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC). Dr. Delic was invited to speak at the Department of National Defence on Monday October 4, 2010 to mark the Islamic Heritage Month in Canada. 

A prominent Muslim thinker of our generation born in Egypt in 1928 was buried in Southern California on September 11, 2010 leaving a void that is impossible to fill by his contemporaries. Dr. Fathi Osman bid farewell to our mortal world around Fajr time in his home in Montrose, California on Saturday, Sept 11. The author of more than 50 books in Arabic and English left behind his wife and daughter
Recently more intensively in the public discourse on Islam we witness the introduction of certain terms marking the name of this universal religion with adjectives of geographic and cultural character, like "Indonesian Islam", "Turkish Islam", "European Islam" or as in our case "Bosnian Islam". This has been a consequence of the terminology transfer from Western religious studies, where the difference is made between "official" or "normative" religion
In these proceedings the Government of the Republic of Serbia seeks the extradition of Dr Ejup Ganic in respect of offences said to have been committed in Bosnia in May 1992. In the course of the 6 day hearing I have received a substantial amount of evidential material amounting to some 20 lever arch files. I am greatly indebted to Counsel both for the Government and for the defendant for their various schedules and skeleton arguments which have guided me
On July 9th, 2010, the second floor of the Gladstone hotel was host to the official start of a set of ceremonial activities organised by a dedicated group of volunteers. Three separate rooms housed three very distinct but connected experiences for the approximately 200 reception-goers, featuring Roger LeMoyne's exhibit "Srebrenica: The Absence".
Mr. Ejup Ganic, the former member of the wartime presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was arrested on March 1, 2010, at London's Heathrow Airport after Serbia had issued a warrant for his extradition. Mr. Ganic is being held in custody at the Westminster Magistrates Court in London. The Serbian government issued an indictment for...
The UK government will not rest until those responsible for the Srebrenica massacre are brought to justice, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Speaking on the 15th anniversary of the genocide, he said it was "a crime that shamed Europe". More than 7,000 Muslim Bosnian men and boys were killed in the atrocity in July 1995. Minister without portfolio Baroness Warsi will represent the UK at a ceremony in Srebrenica later.