"The Islamic Declaration" by Alija Izetbegović

[Bradina]

The Islamic Declaration (Islamska Deklaracija), is a manifesto written by Alija Izetbegovic, originally published in 1970 and banned but re-published in 1990 in Sarajevo.

Alija Izetbegović was the first president of the Independent republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During World War II, Bosnia had become part of a Croatian Nazi-puppet state and Izetbegovic joined the Young Muslims organization as a humanitarian worker helping Muslim refugees from eastern Bosnia. In 1946, when he was 21, Izetbegovic began writing a book called The Islamic Declaration. In it, he said, “There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions.” Before he could get it published, however, the communist government of Josip Broz Tito arrested him and sentenced him to three years in prison for his activities with the Young Muslims. The regime viewed the group’s members as dissidents who were advocating pan-Islamism.

In April 1983, Izetbegović and twelve other Bosniak activists (including Melika Salihbegović, Edhem Bičakčić, Omer Behmen, Mustafa Spahić and Hasan Čengić) were tried before a Sarajevo court for a variety of "offences", principally "hostile activity inspired by Muslim nationalism", "association for purposes of hostile activity" and "hostile propaganda". Specifically, the defendants were accused of intending to create "an ethnically pure Muslim Bosnia-Herzegovina". Izetbegović was further accused of organizing a visit to a Muslim congress in Iran. All of those tried were convicted and Izetbegović was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. In 1988, as communist rule faltered, he was pardoned and released after almost five years in prison.

"Islamic Affairs Analyst" (IAA) publishes studies about Islamic world since 1935. IAA is published 45 times a year, in Great Britain... With the beginning of the civil war in Bosnia, in 1992, they wrote:

There is a great reluctance in the West to recognize that the fighting in Bosnia is a resurgence of the conflict between Islam and Christendom which shaped five centuries of Balkan history. Disbelief in the West regarding Muslim fundamentalism in Bosnia stems from several causes, among which there is a pervasive, compulsive, complacency which holds that things can never be as bad as they seem, hence European officialdom refused to believe that Hitler meant what he wrote in Mein Kampf.

President Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration, first published in 1970 when it earned him a prison sentence, demanded a fully-fundamentalist Muslim state in Bosnia without scope for non-Muslim institutions or any division between religion, politics, and economics. The book was republished in 1990 in Sarajevo (by Mala Muslimanska Biblioteka). It scathingly attacks Attaturk's reforms and holds up Pakistan as a model to be followed.

Excerpts from "The Islamic Declaration":

* "Do we want the Muslim nations to cease moving in circles, to stop being dependent, backward and poverty-stricken; do we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightenment and to become masters of their own fate; do we want the springs of courage, genius and virtue to come forth strongly once again; then we must show the way which leads to that objective:

The implementation of Islam in all fields of individuals' personal lives, in family and in society, by renewal of the Islamic religious thought and creating a uniform Muslim community from Morocco to Indonesia." (page 3)

* "A Muslim can die only with the name of Allah on his lips and for the glory of Islam, or he may run away from the battlefield." (page 4)

* "He who rises against Islam will reap nothing but hate and resistance." (page 17)

* "The shortest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of faith and law, upbringing and force, ideals and interests, spiritual community and state, free will and force.  As a synthesis of these components, the Islamic order has two fundamental premises: an Islamic society and Islamic authority. The former is the essence, and the latter the form of an Islamic order. An Islamic society without Islamic power is incomplete and weak; Islamic power without an Islamic society is either a utopia or violence.

A Muslim generally does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. He must change the world or be changed himself. History knows of no true Islamic movement which was not at the same time a political movement as well. This is because Islam is a faith, but also a philosophy, a set of moral codes, an order of things, a style, an atmosphere - in a nutshell, an integral way of life" (page 19)

* "The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non- Islamic societies and political institutions.

...Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles, and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion." (page 22)

* "The Islamic movement should and must start taking over the power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough to not only overthrow the existing non-Islamic, but also to build up a new Islamic authority". (page 43)

* "But, under the leadership of Zionists, started an action in Palestine which is not only inhumane and ruthless but also shortsighted and adventuresome. This politics takes in account only temporary ratio of power and forgets about overall ratio of power between Jews and Muslims in the world. This politics in Palestine is a provocation to all Muslims of the world. Jerusalem is not only a question of Palestinians, neither is it a question of Arabs only. It is a question of all the Muslim nations. TO KEEP JERUSALEM, THE JEWS WOULD HAVE TO DEFEAT ISLAM AND THE MUSLIMS, AND THAT - THANK G-d - IS OUTSIDE THEIR POWER." (page 53)

* "...FOR ALL MUSLIMS THERE IS BUT ONE SOLUTION: TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT, TO STRENGTHEN AND BROADEN IT, FROM DAY TO DAY, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, NO MATTER THE VICTIMS AND NO MATTER THE TIME it may last, until they are forced to RETURN EVERY INCH OF THE OCCUPIED LAND. EVERY NEGOTIATION AND EVERY COMPROMISE ON THIS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE FOR OUR BROTHERS IN PALESTINE, WILL BE A TREASON WHICH MAY DESTROY THE VERY CORE OF THE MORAL SYSTEM OF OUR WORLD" (page 53-54)

   



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[Zoran]

What a piece of... I hope he is rotting and burning in hell for the rest of eternity constantly getting sodomized by a fully-inflated blowfish.

Scum such as this should be killed in the worst way possible, not allowed to die and then given a decent funeral. Their body should be desecrated and paraded in the most demeaning way possible. I wish he were alive and in front of me this very moment, I would absolutely destroy him.