French president calls Bosnia a jihad ‘ticking time-bomb’

“There is a war between the West and Islam,” says Aimen Dean, who, as a young Saudi Arabian volunteer, travelled to fight in central Bosnia in 1994. “Bosnia gave the modern jihadist movement that narrative. It is the cradle.”

What did the President Bill Clinton and our NATO allies think would happen after their disastrous intervention to join the jihad against the Christians in Serbia and the Catholics in Croatia. etc.? The catastrophic consequences of President Bill Clinton’s regional Islamic nation-building, aiding and abetting the Bosnian Muslims against the Christian Serbs. There are Islamic State training camps for chidlren in Bosnia now.

And it’s not just Bosnia, future terrorists are nesting in the Islamic incubator of Bosnia centered in Sarajevo for future use inside the EU. Up to 10,000 Catholics are leaving Bosnia-Herzegovina every year because of state discrimination against the religious minority, according to the country’s cardinal Vinko Puljić, Archbishop of Vrhbosna.

French president calls Bosnia a ‘ticking time-bomb’

Emmanuel Macron remarks that Europe’s biggest concern in the Balkans is the ‘problem of returning jihadists’ in Bosnia.

By Al Jazeera (jihad reporting) November 8, 2019:

‘If you’re concerned about this region, the first question is… Bosnia-Herzegovina,’ FrenchPresident Macron said [File: Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters]

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French President Emmanuel Macron has described Bosnia and Herzegovina as a “ticking time-bomb” and the greatest concern for Europe in the Balkans due to what he said was its “problem of returning jihadists”.

Croat member of Bosnia’s presidency, Zeljko Komisic, said he would summon France’s ambassador to Sarajevo for an explanation of the comments Macron made in an interview with The Economist magazine, published on Thursday.
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Asked about his successful bid in October to block Albania and North Macedonia from starting European Union membership talks, Macron said neither of the two nations was the primary source of concern in the Balkans.

“If you’re concerned about this region, the first question is neither Macedonia, nor Albania, it’s Bosnia-Herzegovina. The time-bomb that’s ticking right next to (the EU member) Croatia, and which faces the problem of returning jihadists,” Macron said, referring to escaped or released fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group who could return to Europe.

The French Foreign Ministry had no immediate response to the reaction in Bosnia.

A spokesman for Bosnia’s Islamic community, Muhamed Jusic, described Macron’s comments as “scandalous” and said the French president was slandering Bosnia to justify preventing Balkan countries with “significant Muslim populations” from fulfilling their aspirations of EU membership.

“Some 300 Bosnian citizens, most of them women and children, went to the battlefields in Syria and Iraq compared to over 1,900 French,” Jusic said, adding that France has double the number of foreign fighters than any other western European country.

“These days, France awaits the return of 450 jihadists. … I don’t see how this is a bigger problem in Bosnia than in France,” he added.

The Associated Press wrote in 2015 that out of a continental total of 5,000 fighters who have gone to Iraq and Syria, “France has the uncomfortable distinction of being Europe’s leading exporter of jihadis.”

According to Bosnian intelligence, 241 adults and 80 children left Bosnia or the Bosnian diaspora between 2012 and 2016 for Syria and Iraq, where 150 more children were born.

About 100 adults, some half of them women, remain there, while at least 88 have been killed or died.

In 2014, Bosnia became the first country in Europe to introduce prison terms of up to 10 years for its citizens who fight in conflict abroad or recruit others to do so.

Fighters who have since returned to the country were tried and, in most cases, sentenced to prison.

Many criticised Macron’s statement on Twitter.