Thread by @SinanovicErmin

"Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Jews are one body" - The Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Kavazović, at the conference, "Coexistence of Muslims and Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 200 years of the Sarajevo Purim."
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The conference commemorates 200 years since the Bosnian Muslims rose against the Ottoman governor, who imprisoned the leader of Sarajevo Jews and demanded a huge ransom. The Muslims not only freed Rabbi Moše Danon but sent the governor back to Istanbul.
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"Today, when the evils of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are getting stronger in our region, and around Europe and the world, we need to renew our commitment to one another to be good neighbors and to watch over one another, as we did in the past." - Mufti Kavazović
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Jakob Finci, President of the BH Jewish community, "This event that took place 200 years ago has equal importance today when Islamophobia threatens diplomatic relations and when the status of Muslims in some countries is simply unacceptable."
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David Kamhi, a prominent Bosnian Jewish leader, "this (conference) is about the coexistence of Muslims and Jews which started much earlier, with the Madinan Charter, given by (Prophet) Muhammad a.s., which gave the Jews full rights. This is the community, this is the ummah."
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