BOSNIAKS WANT DOMINATION IN BiH

BANJA LUKA, MAY 3 /SRNA/ - Bosniaks want domination in BiH, which causes the Serbs and Croats great fear and anxiety — and indeed it should concern much of Europe because there are significant pockets of radical Islam in the Bosniak community, says, among other things, the Republika Srpska Government's 35th Report to the UN Security Council.

"Parties representing the Bosniak majority aim to centralize the country so that Bosniaks would dominate BiH, causing great fear and anxiety among Serbs and Croats, and indeed it should concern much of Europe, because there are significant pockets of radical Islam in the Bosniak community," says the Report. It says that one of the central conflicts in BiH politics is between the parties representing the Bosniak majority, which aim to centralize the country under Bosniak rule, and the Serb and Croat parties, which wish to preserve the structure and protections of the Dayton Constitution. It emphasizes that the Bosniak parties and their international allies have already severely weakened BiH’s federal constitutional structure and power-sharing mechanisms, and they wish to continue until there are no such protections left. The prospect of total Bosniak domination of BiH causes the Serbs and Croats great fear and anxiety — and indeed it should concern much of Europe, because there are significant pockets of radical Islam in the Bosniak community. A worrisome sign of the influence of radical Islamic elements in BiH is the recent upsurge in anti-Semitism. For example, in May 2025, a meeting of the Conference of European Rabbis that had been planned for Sarajevo had to be cancelled due to Bosniak political pressure. "Most recently, at a European under-21 football championship qualifying match, held on April 1, Bosniak members of the BiH team refused to shake hands with Israeli players," says the Report. Even more troubling, the largest Bosniak political party is avowedly Islamist and maintains open ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. "When the Serb member of BiH’s tripartite Presidency recently proposed steps toward declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, the other two members of the Presidency, who represent Bosniak interests, blocked the initiative," reads the Report. Given these attitudes among Bosniak leadership, it should be no surprise that many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States in recent decades have had ties to radical communities in BiH. The document says that, fortunately, BiH’s federal structure has enabled Republika Srpska to engage in close cooperation on antiterrorism and cybersecurity with security agencies in the United States and other countries, thus bolstering the security of BiH and Europe. It says that Republika Srpska supports BiH’s path to EU membership, but not at the price of giving away the autonomy to which Republika Srpska is entitled under the Dayton Agreement. "Republika Srpska will not permit Bosniak parties to use EU integration as a Trojan horse to centralize BiH in violation of the Dayton Constitution and its protections for the Croats and Serbs," says the Report.