Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A Bulgarian MP denounces forced conversion to Islam of entire villages, by Francis Chartrand
According to a Bulgarian member, many villages in the south are converted to Islam by force. Although Bulgaria is part of the European Union, some parts of the country would need a second liberation from Ottoman rule, "said Yane Yanev, member of Bulgarian Parliament, as quoted by Bulgarian news agency, BGNES.
Yanev, the leader of the Opposition and the leader of the "Order, Law, and Justice" (RZS) spoke Monday in Blagoevgrad as reported by the local correspondent of the agency BGNES.
The party leaders RZS Monday visited several villages in the south of Bulgaria to meet with teachers and concerned parents, who have presented concrete evidence of forced conversions to Islam in the region.
The example of Ribnovo village, municipality of Gurmen was presented as the most striking. In this village, the school director, Issa FEIM, imposed a dictatorship on teachers, forcing them to wear traditional Muslim clothing and encourage female students to do the same.
Mr. Issa was illegally appointed director with the help of leaders of the local mosque and is actively supported by the religion teacher at the school, Murat Boshnak. Mr. Boshnak is apparently an individual with a suspect past training is unclear. It does not even have a high school diploma Bulgarian, but he has a degree from a religious school in Skopje, Macedonia. The inhabitants of Ribnovo say that Boshnak specializes in Saudi Arabia and force parents to sign applications for their children to study Islam. It also requires that children turn to him, and calling it "Aga" instead of "Gospodin" (Mr), and for girls to attend the final ceremony of graduation in civilian clothes. He issued a ban on celebrations. Boshnak then organized a trip to Turkey with the funds of a foundation Arabic. Only one girl participated in the ceremony of graduation. Parents who refuse to follow the basic rules have been insulted during the sermons in the local mosque.
Yanev cited similar examples in the village of Satovcha, where the principal has regularly attended courses of radical Islam in a fundamentalist school illegal. She is currently on maternity leave and, in order to keep the school under control, has appointed her own husband to replace her.
The inhabitants of the villages visited by Yanev are not Turkish, they are all Bulgarian Muslims, speaking only the Bulgarian language.
The leader of the RZS said he was appalled by the serious violations of the rights and freedoms of Bulgarian citizens, which are enshrined in the Constitution. The RZS was distributed to the media of video, showing how radical Islam is taking root quickly in the country, under the gaze of the tri-partite coalition in power.
Mr. Yanev and his colleague Dimitar Abadzhiev have promised to notify the State Agency for National Security (DANS) violations of the rights of citizens of the region, which, they say, sabottent European values and pave the way to Islam in Europe.
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