Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States

41. Preporod, 15 February 1990.
42. “The Constitution of the Islamic Community,” Preporod, 15 April 1990.
43. A Belgrade weekly wrote: “Jakub Selimoski is the winner of the elections—the
man under whose leadership all cards have been disclosed, which
indicates that our Muslims are moving toward an Islamic state.” Svet, 3 April
1991.
44. “Muslimani za Yugoslaviju” (Muslims for Yugoslavia), Slobodna Dalmacija,
23 June 1991.
45. Preporod, 1 July 1990.
46. From my interview with Mufti Omerbasˇić. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 20May
1990.
47. Preporod, 1 June 1990.
48. Milovan Djilas and Nadezˇda Gće, Bosˇnjak Adil Zulfikarpasˇić, 3rd ed. (Zurich:
Bosˇnjački institut, 1995), p. 134.
49. Preporod, 1 June 1990.
50. Ibid.
51. Djilas and Gaće, Bosˇnjak Adil Zulfikarpasˇić, p. 134.
52. Ibid.
53. In an interview with me, Mufti Omerbasˇić said that he himself and many
other imams participated in the organizing of the SDA but decided to comply
with the decision on political neutrality of the Islamic Community. Yet, according
to Omerbasˇić’s words, many clerics virtually remained party activists without a
membership card. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 20 May 1990.
54. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 15 October 1989.
55. Nedjeljna Dalmacija, 21 April 1991.
56. Djilas and Gaće, Bosˇnjak Adil Zulfikarpasˇić, p. 134.
6. United We Stand, Divided We Fall
1. Titu: poruke, zˇelje zaveti, 4 Januar—4 Maj 1980 (To Tito: Messages, wishes,
vows, 4 January–4 May 1980) (Belgrade: Borba, 1981), p. 38.
2. Ibid., 58.
3. Ibid., 139.
4. Ibid., 91.
5. Ibid., p. 91.
6. Ibid., p. 100
7. Ibid., p. 139.
8. Ibid., p. 127.
9. Ibid., p. 191.
10. Ibid., p. 173.
11. Ibid., p. 179.
12. Ibid., p. 150.
13. Ibid., p. 119.
14. Ibid., p. 115.
15. Bilo je časno zˇivjeti s Titom (It was an honor to be a contemporary of Tito)
(Zagreb: Vjesnik, 1980), p. 226.
16. NIN, 11 May 1980.
17. Ibid.
18. Velimir Milosˇević, in Pjesme o Titu, ed. Husein Tahmisˇčić (Zagreb: Spektar,
1983), p. 141.
19. NIN, 11 May 1980.
notes to pages 84–91 271