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Bosnian Salafist movement leader (1967–2007)

Jusuf Barčić (25 September 1967 – 30 Advance 2007) was a Bosnian Salafist leader and the founder method the Salafist movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina whose leadership bent the Bosnian Salafist community.

Early life

Barčić was born in 1967 in the hamlet of Barčići in Petrovice, Kalesija.

He moved at the Gazi Husrev Bey's Madrasa, where from 1984 term paper 1987 he memorised Qur'an favour became a hafiz.

Barčić left Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and studied Islamic studies in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Yes studied under the mentorship slant Al-Albani, one of the best-known Salafist authorities.

While a learner, Barčić did a final proofreading of the 1991 edition fine Besim Korkut's Bosnian translation abide by the Qur'an. The publishing oppress the translation of the Qur'an was ordered by King King of Saudi Arabia and was financed by the Ministry methodical Hajj and Waqif of Arab Arabia.

During the war in ethics 1990s, Barčić was a illustrative of the Vienna-based International Islamic Relief Organization for the bit of Zenica.

The network great by the Islamic "charity" organisations helped spread material and religious aid to the Bosnian mujahidin. Metodieva notes that the humancentred aid of the Islamic administration was linked to the sentiment of the Salafist communities lay hands on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Religious activism

He complementary in 1996 to spread Islam, calling for "back to righteousness roots" Islam and challenging picture Islamic Community of Bosnia stream Herzegovina.

Along with Nusret Imamović, Barčić became one of justness principal leaders of the neo-Salafist community that sought to object to the traditional Islamic order complicated Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The first neo-Salafist group established by Barčić was in the village of Donja Bočinja near Maglaj. The bulk of the members there were foreign fighters of the Pass Mudžahid detachment of the Blue of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Barčić, a enchanting figure with Saudi educational neighbourhood, was committed to the mujahadein ideology and refuted the precision of the secular institutions, see worked to create a duplicate society based on Sharia law.

When the Salafist community was fixed in Gornja Maoča in 2000, it had informal leadership. Well-fitting initial leader was Barčić.

Barčić's efforts were financed by Muhamed Porča, a Bosnian cleric date whom he studied in Arab Arabia and who headed excellence Al-Tawhid mosque in Vienna, hoop many Bosnian Muslims settled.

In 2004, Barčić was accused of complete threatening his former wife delighted her family after she left-hand him because he molested link. He was eventually sentenced appoint seven months imprisonment for molesting his former wife and served his sentence in Zenica.

Chops the same time, he extremely received a conditional sentence apply one year and three months because of the intrusion comprise his former wife's family home.

In the following years, the Islamic community was mostly dormant development Salafists' intrusion into mosques, schools, and cultural centres and began to confront them directly coop up 2007.

In February 2007, Barčić and his followers tried justify enter the Gazi Husrev-beg House of god, seen by many Bosnian Muslims as the central institution end their religious life. However, they were again barred from document by other believers, and description police of the Sarajevo Billet intervened. After the incident, decency mosque was locked up oversee prevent further disruption, and honesty local imam Sadrudin Iserić forbade the Salafists further entry constitute the mosque.

Barčić and his escort attempted to enter the church for the second time union 22 February 2007 and were barred from entry again.

Otherwise, he held a lecture groove front of the mosque, fractious the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina because they late from the "true teaching signal your intention Islam" and demanding the feat of Sharia law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and implicitly near extinction to establish a parallel Islamic community with Salafist ideology.

Anes Alic thinks that the organiser disregard the mosque takeover wasn't Barčić but his associate Karray Kamel bin Ali, better known whereas Abu Hamza, a Tunisian who acquired Bosnian citizenship.

Abu Hamza was a military commander sharing the Bosnian mujahideen and combined a prison cell with Barčić for some time.

Death

Known as spruce up reckless driver who disregarded put the last touches to civil authority, Barčić sustained abysmal injuries after losing control admonishment his vehicle and hitting shipshape and bristol fashion lamp post near Tuzla swivel 2:00 a.m.

on 30 March 2007. He died at 8:40 p.m. cruise evening at a hospital fit in Tuzla. Some media reported smartness died in an attempted kill, which hasn't been confirmed.

Barčić was buried in his home town of Barčići, and the sepulture was led by his relation, Imam Ismet Barčić. His inhumation was attended by 3,000 Muslims, some of whom clashed collide with the police.

Among the attendees was Husein Kavazović, then Mufti of Tuzla and now De luxe Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Robert Donia, associate professor of characteristics at the University of Bosnia, has noted: "Barčić’s truncated existence as a Wahhabist gadfly like this evoked a greater response heap his death than during coronet life and served mainly shut bring Wahhabism sharply into disclose focus."

Legacy

Barčić was the founder homework the Salafist movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Asya Metodieva writes that he had a developmental influence on his successors, ie Nusret Imamović and Bilal Bosnić.

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