7 hours agomunicipality discusses Grand Mosque in Pristina on Friday
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Pristina's Municipal Assembly on Friday is expected to discuss the permission of the Great Mosque in Pristina, issues that were recurrentised this weekend. Kosovo's Islamic Community spokesman, Ahmet Sadriu, has said this institution expects a constructive debate and a prolonged epilogue to build [...]
Kosovo's Islamic Community spokesman Ahmet Sadriou has said that this institution expects a constructive debate to be found at this meeting and that the long-standing epilogue for mosque construction is known.
He has announced that there was a meeting of the head of Pristina and BIK leader for the Big Mosque days ago.
“also followed a meeting with the mayor of the municipality, who was here at our headquarters and has also talked about this issue, about the start of the mosque's work and from that meeting, the mayor of the Municipal Assembly told the mufti that he will call the municipal assembly to be held on the 21st date that falls Friday that comes and will be debated about the start of the central mosque construction here in Pristina. We're waiting until Friday and the epilogue how this will end. We very much hope that there will be constructive debate and the reason for” will prevail, said Ahmet Sadriu, BIC spokesman.
He has added that the Kosovo Islamic Community has not accepted any petition concerning the revision of the Grand Mosque project in Dardani.
But even if there were, BIK spokesman calls the claim biased because the mosque construction procedures, according to him, were legitimate and transparent.
Even the Council for Protection of Rights and Human Freedoms has been involved in the recent debate on the Great Mosque in the capital, rejecting the online petition of several civil society activists.
KMDLNY says the petition for mosque is making exceptions to religious grounds, and with this, the rights of a religious community are being violated, denying them the basic right to building cult objects, even if they are not against the law.
“Llogaris that approximately 85% of Kosovo's citizens are of Islamic faith, so with this petition, which has no legal, human, moral and logical basis, it is becoming a very bad service to good interreligious reports that have been in Kosovo so far. With this petition, the human rights of Islamic believers in Kosovo are being jeopardised, despite ethnic affiliation, as if a dangerous discurs -- that of religious disuniting” -- are being encouraged, the reaction said.
Only 900 people have signed the online petition of civil society activists.
