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This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war - Alija Izetbegovic quoted on BBC News

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  1. Bosnia should be a secular state. A non-secular Bosnia would be terror. - Alija Izetbegovic for 'Start BiH Magazine', questions 28 and 29.)
  2. Do we want the Muslim peoples to break out of the cycle of dependence, backwardness and poverty? ... Then we can clearly show the way which…
  3. Sleep peacefully people, there will not be a war. (Narode, spavaj mirno, rata nece biti.) - Alija Izetbegovic, cited in Central Europe Revi…
  4. The idea of Islamic renewal, which understands Islam as capable not only of educating human beings but also of ordering the world, will alw…
  5. Islam is the best, but we Muslims are not the best. The West is neither corrupted nor degenerate. It is strong, well-educated, and organize…
  6. The briefest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of religion and law, upbringing and power, ideal and interest, the spiri…
  7. There can be no peace or coexistence between the Islamic faith and non-Islamic societies and political institutions. The failure of these i…
  8. There are immutable Islamic principles which order relations between people, but there is no Islamic economic, social or political structur…

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