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Mosque.si

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A screenshot of Mosque.si

Background Info:

BBC: Mosque bid stirs feelings in Slovenia
The Slovenia Times: Minaret Under the Alps
Slovenia Bulletin: Finally, a mosque for Ljubljana?

(Via Delo)

Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 to Slovenia

Comments

  • 1

    I gave up after clicking the second time. I think there is a lesson to be learned from that :P

         by crni on October 27, 2004 at 7:57 am

  • 2

    Plus, this site won the only slovenian Golden Drum award at the 11th Golden Drum Advertising Festival. The agency was Mayer McCann.

         by matej on October 27, 2004 at 9:47 am

  • 3

    It´s odd, but the screenshot reminded me of “Cuba si” and similar campaigns using the Spanish/Italian word for “yes”. Probably not intended by the initiators, though.

         by Christian on October 27, 2004 at 10:53 pm

  • 4

    The Mayor of Ljubljana Danica SimÅ¡iÄ? and her communist party could have solved the problem of mosque long ago. They didn’t want to because they used to be “fighting atheists”. Before 1991 they didn’t bother at all about “public opinion”.
    Now the issue of mosque is highly politicized and many people are against just because LDS and ZLSD support it (at least in words).

    A.

         by Anonymous on November 2, 2004 at 9:37 pm

  • 5

    Don’t have a clue why so many Westerners fear Islam? See below:

    www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/veiled4allah/005883.php

    Muzaffer Abdulkhabir said:

    Assalaamu aleykum!

    Actually I want to add something on islam in Slovenia. I am writing my reply here because ‘islam in Slovenia’ is closed for any further comments.
    I am a Slovene muslim myself and I have always lived in Slovenia. Bosniacs make up about 80% of Slovenian muslim population and Albanians another 10%. But majority of these people are no good muslims. Mostly, they are non educated fasiqeen and most of them have done acts which lead out of islam. I estimate that about 1% out of 50,000 people are praying regularly.
    The situation is disastrous. We are waiting for muslim immigrants to come and aid us. The problem is that those practising the deen and willing to work for islam are young people (students) with insufficient financial fonds. And besides, there are too few of us.

    Anyhow, Slovenes have met islam for first time when the Osmanic army came to liberate this region from Austrian rule in 10th century Hijri. In that time Slovenes were too blind to recognise the right religion. They couldn’t understand Turkish and the priests were telling them lies on these ‘barbarians’. Other major factor of kufr were Croatian (catholic) and Serbian (orthodox christian) mercenairies in sultan’s army. They were killing innocent people and robbing villages. There is no recording that these Turkish would build any mosque.
    Probably some Slovene merchants embraced islam in Greece and set off for Andalus later but there are no historical sources to confirm that.

    Their next meeting with islam was in 1915 AD when Bosnian soldiers came to fight against Italy (Slovenia and Bosnia were part of Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time). Bosniacs had built 2 mosques in west of country, but they were both destroyed by Italians after WWI when western Slovenia became part of Italy.

    There was also 1 poet and priest in 19th century AD (Anton A?kerc) who was so inspired by islam that he risked his head and quit being a priest and a member of Catholic church. He travelled to Middle East and his last poems were at least strongly influensed by islam. If he converted to islam he was the only muslim in Slovenia. But since Slovene history is written by kufaar we cannot know for sure. They say he became an atheist.

    Later, islam returned with immigrants from Bosnia (Bosnia) and later Macedonia (Torbesh, Albanian and some Turkish). Nowadays, there are about 10 converts and I am the only one from national capitol (entire population cca. 280,000; 8% muslim). People here in general dislike islam and are very racistic. As a renegade from kufr and shaytanic tradition I face many troubles in my community. But my nationality could also be my advantage sometimes.

    For sure, Slovenia is an interesting country for da’wa but unfortunately quite unknown. We must hurry before devious groups like ismailis and qadiyanis start their activities here.

    Islamic literature in Slovene language is very few. Mostly, there are books written by unbelievers trying to discredit islam, other are written by immigrants in cooperation with kafireen without any consulting with converts who speak muslim version of Slovene the best. This country should really be islamised. Meanwhile we make duas and hope for better future.

         by Red Alert on November 7, 2004 at 1:03 am

  • 6

    After having read THAT (Muzaffer Abdulkhabir said) I’ve got scared too. If this is not just a provocation we should start being cautious.
    Note for instance what he says about our poet Anton Aškerc. Unbelievable.
    Maybe many of us are too naive to be able to cope with this new threat.
    A.

         by Andreja on November 9, 2004 at 4:28 pm

  • 7

    How do you pronuce bosniac ?

         by Adam on June 16, 2005 at 6:17 am

  • 8

    I find the comments about the Islamisation of Slovenia and the veiled threat at Europe distateful at best and disgusting at worst. Given the history of the Balkans and Yugoslavia under Ottoman rule. Calling non-Muslims ‘kafir’ is not acceptable and is racist. Muslim immigrants are allowed freedom of speech and press in Europe but when it is used in such a nepharious manner, it only confirms the reasons why people want to say ‘NO’ to such things as mosques which have become breding grounds of hate. If Muslims want to live in the West they need to respect their place in society and contribute, accept their  minority status and respect the rights of others especially their problem areas: women, gays, Jews and have more respect for the Christian majority, who have a right to be proud of their culture and religion. May Our Lord Jesus forgive the terrorists as tolerance will run out. Amen

         by Charles on July 22, 2005 at 12:58 pm

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