Well it looks like Utah shooter and “non-religious” Bosnian Muslim Sulejman Talovic is in the ground after his funeral this weekend in Tuzla, Bosnia, where he was interred with Islamic burial rites.
Slavojub Josipovic, of the American Bosnian and Herzegovenian Association, not a Muslim himself but married to a Muslim, reminds us that Bosnian Muslims are secular and “don’t practice too much.”
More than three hundred people, mostly strangers, attended this funeral fit for a hero:
One wonders why strangers showed up to pay their respects at the funeral of a murderer. But all present forgave the mass murderer:
Before the casket was taken to the cemetery, lead imam Sulejman Sulejmanovic
asked all the gathered women if they would ‘’halaliti’’ (forgive) all of
Sulejman’s sins before he departed to another world. By tradition, the question
was repeated three times, and the women forgave Sulejman.
By Muslim custom, the casket was moved from hand to hand by the men all the way to the grave, where it was placed headfirst by the closest family member, in this case, Suljo Talovic. Only men were allowed to witness the burial.
After the prayers led by three imams, the question: “Are we going to forgive?’’ was repeated three more times.“He is forgiven!” said the men gathered.
Sulejmanovic “said the victims of the Trolley Square shootings should know that ‘we Bosnians are not maniacs, that we are normal and mellow people.’”
Our media have been scrambling to underscore the same point. The image we were supposed to have of “Bosnians” was the long-cultivated non-Muslim Muslims (“non-religious”; “secular”; “non-practicing”; “Europeanized”; “non-observant” Muslims). Now the explanation before us is that “Bosnian Muslims” are simply the non-terrorist type of Muslim. Let the record show: In the language of the media that had us take up the Bosnian jihad, “non-observant Muslim” = “non-terrorist Muslim.” Ergo, observant Muslim = terrorist Muslim. In other words, Talovic died practicing his faith.
Tuzla is a place where wahhabis are causing daily incidents at mosques and schools as part of the radicalization program that Bosnia’s war for independence invited, and the authorities are reluctant to do much about it. It’s also where, as Belgrade’s Tanjug news agency reported, “Serbs Again Flee Bosnian Federation due to Discrimination”:
The Association for the Return of Displaced Persons to the Tuzla Kanton (canton)
has warned once again that the position of somewhat 7,000 Serb returnees in 13
cantonal municipalities is unbearable, due to the deprivation of their rights
and discriminatory attitude of the Bosniak and cantonal authorities towards
them…Bosniaks have committed ethnic cleansing against local Serbs [of] whom
there used to be 82,000 in this region before the war, the Association
underlined.
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Pertinent Links:
1) In Bosnia, a Funeral for the Utah Killer - Fit for a Hero
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