Djamila
Bosnjakinja
The Vatican has once again cited the inequality of Roman Catholics in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and once again described the country as a "predominantly Islamic nation" in a report that listed hundreds of incidents, only one of them related to Muslims.
This incident, sadly, involves Sarajevo. Despite that the Roman Catholic community in Sarajevo has grown by several thousand since the 1940s, the construction of additional Roman Catholic Churches has not been authorized since that time. Sarajevo currently has half a dozen Roman Catholic churches serving tens of thousands of people, obviously not enough.
All the other incidents involve areas under the control of Bosnian Serbs, Orthodox Christians. They include violent incidents in Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Brcko and general discrimination in freedom of religion and employment throughout Serbian-dominated areas. All of areas pose problems for Muslims as well, evident enough to OSCE and Amnesty International reports.
This is specified nowhere in the report, of course, so anyone reading it is left with the impression all of this is the fault of Bosnian Muslims.
This incident, sadly, involves Sarajevo. Despite that the Roman Catholic community in Sarajevo has grown by several thousand since the 1940s, the construction of additional Roman Catholic Churches has not been authorized since that time. Sarajevo currently has half a dozen Roman Catholic churches serving tens of thousands of people, obviously not enough.
All the other incidents involve areas under the control of Bosnian Serbs, Orthodox Christians. They include violent incidents in Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Brcko and general discrimination in freedom of religion and employment throughout Serbian-dominated areas. All of areas pose problems for Muslims as well, evident enough to OSCE and Amnesty International reports.
This is specified nowhere in the report, of course, so anyone reading it is left with the impression all of this is the fault of Bosnian Muslims.
