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17. Samardzˇić, Religious Communities, p. 39.
18. Slobodna Dalmacija, 22 May 1988.
19. Ahmad Smajlović, “Muslims in Yugoslavia,” Journal of Muslim Minority
Affairs 1, (1979), quoted in Fouad Ajami, “Under Western Eyes: The Fate of
Bosnia,” Survival 41, 2 (summer 1999), p. 37.
20. According to the League of Communists’ Organ Medjuopćinska konferencija
Saveza komunista za Dalmaciju, Marksistički centar (Intermunicipal Conference
of the League of Communists of Croatia of the Association of Municipalities
of Dalmatia, Marxist Center), “Pregled pisanja vjerske sˇtampe” (A survey
of the church press) (Split, June 1988).
21. Only after the constitutional reform in 1990 (see hereafter) did Kosovo
Albanians, in the words of the supreme Islamic official in Kosovo, mufti Jetisˇ
Bajrami, become satisfied with the degree of autonomy granted them by Sarajevo.
Interview with me held in Prizren, 4 August 1990.
22. Sheik Djemali Shehu granted an interview to me in Prizren on 5 August
1990. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 12 August 1990.
23. Seventy-four imams became members of municipal and district SAWPY
committees. Religion, Politics, Society, 27 May 1982.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Preporod, 15 March 1982; see TANJUG bulletin, Religion, Politics, Society,
11 April 1982, p. III/36.
27. Preporod, 1 June 1985. See Religion, Politics, Society, 20 June 1985, p. III/
45.
28. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Skupsˇtine općine
Split (Commission for Relations with Religious Communities of the Executive
Council of the Municipality of Split), “Izgradnja objekata za potrebe vjerskih
zajednica, 1983–1987—informacija” (Information on construction of religious
facilities and places of worship, 1983–1987) (Split, 14 April 1987).
29. NIN, 18 January 1987; NIN, 13 September 1987; “Muslims: Religion and
Politics,” in Nedjeljni Vjesnik, 14 April 1991.
30. Quoted from Omerbasˇić’s interview with me held in Zagreb on 14 May
1990. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 20 May 1990.
31. Komisija za odnose s vjerskim zajednicama Izvrsˇnog vijeća Sabora Socijalističke
Republike Hrvatske, “Odnosi s vjerskim zajednicama u SR Hrvatskoj.”
32. Ibid.
33. NIN, 13 September 1987.
34. Ibid.
35. Religion, Politics, Society, 18 October 1984.
36. In an editorial, the Islamic newspaper Preporod wrote that the Islamic
Community regretted “the misfortune incident” and wanted to correct some
allegations in the foreign Islamic press, such as that not Yugoslav communists
but the Serbian Cetniks committed massacres against Muslims in World War II,
and that Muslims enjoy in socialist Yugoslavia relatively more freedom than their
coreligionists in other communist countries. Religion, Politics, Society, 18 October
1984.
37. Economist, 15–21 September 1984. See Religion, Politics, Society, 27 September
1984.
38. Valter, 7 April 1989.
39. Politika express, 26 May 1989.
40. Ibid.
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