Last week we had the opportunity to see a relatively short video from Novi Pazar in which several (or several dozen, anyway) young men appeared in light green uniforms (roughly the color and design of the German police, but that does not mean anything) and with illegible insignia on their sleeves . They were neatly and very martially arrayed, looking at everything in front of them, in a "calm" attitude; we still don't know what happened. We know, however, that it was shown as part of some kind of public manifestation of Muamer Zukorlić, the mufti of Sandžak, who has been getting on the heads of everyone, especially Sandžakli, with his political adventurism for years.
With that uniforming and paramilitary organization of like-minded political people, we and Europe have had a very bad experience in the past hundred years, which the mufti must be aware of. Italy had black, Germany brown (Nazi) and other (socialist) shirts, all with belts and ties; such was the fashion in Hungary, Romania, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Ljotić Choir), etc. We know how it ended. Croatia still has neo-Ustasha nostalgics in black shirts and caps with the letter "U" (with "ears"), but they slowly became part of the marginal folklore around the HDZ and the Church in Croatia, with all that Thomson (M1A1) and Karamark. In our country, since 1990, we have had some "Chetniks" and accompanying bashibozuk, but they did not stand out in ordinary civilian circumstances, except for occasional different fashion details that can hardly be described as uniform. Form (uniform) and content (robbery and war crimes) should not be confused here; the form is irrelevant.
Well, now: when someone uniforms his political supporters, the message is clear: sooner or later he will arm them; that's how it was until now; the last time in Kosovo with that "Protection Corps" which was first only uniformed, and later... The matter is therefore clear: if I uniformed them, it means that I will also arm them. The residents of Novopazar we talked to say that the same Zukorlić team was uniformed before, although differently: black leather jackets, armed and in fat jeeps.
SANJAK TRIANGLE: The appearance of this silly circus is secondary here - except in political analysis. It is an unequivocal political demonstration of the Mufti. The bottom line is somewhere else: why does the mufti do it, the way he does it and at this nervous moment when paramilitary formations of all kinds (even those of our unfortunate "Chetniks" in Ukraine) are not looked upon with joy? In Bosnia and Kosovo, they arrest some Islamist-minded volunteers and their organizers, hodjas and imams. And mufti Zukorlić found a time to show, uniform and line up the donkeys in the middle of Novi Pazar. Why is he doing it and for whose account?
Here we should now return to the character and work of Muamer Zukorlić, the mufti of Sandzak. That adventurer appears out of nowhere during the mandate of Dr. Vojislav Koštunica and is immediately used to bring discord into the Islamic community of Serbia, with the wholehearted cooperation of Kostunica's Ministry of Religion. When we say from nowhere, we do not mean that he did not graduate from various Islamic schools and universities in the Levant; but: there were more such graduates and PhD students from those schools and universities financed by Saudi petrodollars than those from Megatrend, so that doesn't mean much. Young, impudent and infinitely ambitious, Mufti Zukorlić built Sandžak into exactly the kind of circus that suited Kostunica and his zealots. This is how today's Sandžak triangle was born: Ljajić–Ugljanin–Zukorlić; before we only had Rasim, before him Sulja, then both of them; now we have three. Why is it important?
Because Sandžak remained the last scarecrow of "secessionism" in Serbia; that's why. With Vojvodina - despite all Koštunica's and other Great Serbian efforts - it somehow did not work out, as we can see from the most recent efforts to "equalize" the relationship between political forces in Novi Sad and Belgrade. Ever since Sloba's time, Sandžak has served as a backup variant of all-Serbian mobilization and homogenization against "secession" and other threats. Let's just remember the pogrom of Milošević's police in Sandžak ("gathering of weapons", "conspiracy" to overthrow the constitutional order and other nonsense); it all ended nowhere, neither criminally nor judicially - but it played a role that Suljo Ugljanin would have something to say about, if he wanted to. After the Coup of October 5, Rasim Ljajić had the situation more or less under control, but then Kostunica's government came and with it the mufti, and now Suljo is back.
AGENTS PROVOCATORS: The essence of the story was and remains that Sandžak, in a completely Karadzic-Ekmedzic manner, presented himself as a secessionist scarecrow along the lines of "green transversal", "Islamic fundamentalism" and other paranoid idiocies with which they buried us since about 1986, until today. The Sanjakli, the world's prudent, hardworking and God-fearing, never provided any basis for such silly confabulations: they worked and minded their own business, until this crisis when they too are suddenly impoverished, which gives the Mufti certain starting positions for stirring up water and political maneuvers. In the meantime, Mufti Zukorlić tried all kinds of things, mostly on the advertising front: he shouted, threatened lawsuits, harassed Aida Ćorović and others (so she received police protection, but no one touched him) and generally engaged in increasingly ineffective activities public relations adventures. The Sandjakls did not fall for something; it is a smart world and it has bitter experiences with such. Mufti courted the Islamic community of Bosnia and Herzegovina as much and very loudly. Former reis, Mustafa ef. Cerić, he succumbed to some extent - but not much - and today's ulema in Bosnia and Herzegovina look at him with disapproval, as far as we understand. Then - quite naturally - came the time of scandal, when nothing else helps. First, the story started with the memorial plaque to that associate of the occupier, Ćatif-Effendi (occupational mayor of Novi Pazar). The Mufti and his colleagues reasoned like the DSS: he was an anti-communist man, so if the Serbs (Koštunica) can celebrate Mita Ljotić and others, why not Ćatif? That did not work, so now the mufti has resorted to the last resort of escalating the scandal: lining up uniformed political supporters.
The basic question - what does Sandžak and the Sandžaklije get out of it and who does it benefit? - was not set by anyone and it is high time to clear up that matter once and for all. From the mufti's charlatan political adventurism, Sandzak and Sandzaklia have only ziyaan (damage). After twenty years (and more) of suspicion, pogroms and discrimination - they just needed the mufti's uniformed types.
And who benefits from the mufti? Well, those who invented it, brought it, encouraged it and turned it on "on the go" at that time, so that it continued on its own power - until now, when the fuel is running out. With this weak-minded adventurous gesture with a parade of uniformed mufti mufti, Zukorlić came dangerously close to the qualification of a paid agent provocateur in the service of those forces for whom - in their despair - Sandžak remained as the only "secessionist" scarecrow in the pandemonium of "haters of everything Serbian" and "disintegrators of Serbia". When there aren't any, you have to invent them, and that's it agents provocateurs they have no competition.
