FEDERATION TV BLAMES RULING MUSLIM ELITE FOR RECENT ANTI-GAY RIOTS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - September 30, 2008, Tuesday

Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation public TV, on 29 September

[Host Bakir Hadziomerovic] [commentary introduced by anti-gay video showing a knife and a missile beheading the figure shown on posters announcing recent Sarajevo queer festival; video says "Bosnia is the mother to Bosniaks [Bosnian Muslims], not to gays", warns organizer Svetlana Djurkovic to "watch out", calls her "a disgrace for Bosnia"] The horrific footage you have seen in the early seconds of tonight's "60 Minutes" appeared on YouTube and stayed there briefly. It is assumed that the maniac sending the message was outside Sarajevo's Academy of Fine Arts [venue of gay festival opening event] on Wednesday evening [24 September], where 100-odd fascists mobbed participants and guests of the first queer festival in Bosnia-Hercegovina's capital.

The Kristallnacht, during which Wahhabis and thugs - repeat offenders among them - literally hunted down and beat festival's guests and participants in city streets, is the last illustration to all of us as to where we actually live. We live in a city which in terms of respect for human rights and freedoms has long since ceased to resemble modern European metropolises although ruling power-lords, from [Sarajevo mayor] Semiha Borovac through both Silajdzics [state Presidency chair/SBiH chairman Haris Silajdzic, Sarajevo Canton premier Samir Silajdzic], Izetbegovic junior [high-ranking official of Party of Democratic Action (SDA) official Bakir, son of late Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic] to [head of Bosnian Islamic Community] Reis [Mustafa effendi] Ceric, are falling over themselves explaining that Sarajevo is a full-blown multiethnic metropolis.

It is precisely these power-lords that consciously lie when placing the capital of B-H [Bosnia-Hercegovina] where it objectively does not belong who also bear the greatest responsibility for its Kabulization. For it is old hat that for days before the queer festival, through the regime media, Borovac, Silajdzics, Cerics and Izetbegovics - not infrequently even personally - encouraged the thugs and prepared the ground for the violence that took place in Sarajevo's Crystal Night.

However horrific it may sound, this latest incidence of savagery was not unexpected since even on earlier occasions the city had been the stage of most heinous Taleban incidents, with overt support by the SDA, Party for B-H [SBiH] and the Islamic Community leadership. Cut the liar's hand off, but had not mostly the same persons who were on the rampage outside the Academy of Fine Arts prepared well-orchestrated violence in the streets of Sarajevo six years ago on the deportation of the Algerian group [six naturalized Bosnians, terror suspects, since then detained in Guantanamo]. It was only thanks to a strong SFOR [Stabilization Force] presence and a better-prepared police force that they then failed to achieve what they, unfortunately, succeeded in five days ago.

Source: Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation TV, Sarajevo, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 1800 gmt 29 Sep 08
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