The Vice-President of the Montenegrin Parliament and an official of the Bosniak Party BS Suljo Mustafić announced that he does not mind the Christian symbols on the state symbols, because as a believer he respects and respects both the Christian symbols and the symbols of every other religion.
He believes that in the signs of the civil state, everyone should have their own recognition.
"The members of Islam are autochthonous residents here, they have built Montenegro for centuries, they are part of its social reality and we ask that this be expressed through the symbols of our country," said Mustafić in an interview with Portal RTCG.
He also believes that a lot of work needs to be done to improve the position of the Bosniak-Muslim people, as well as other minority peoples in Montenegro.
Mustafić reminded that they clearly stated that they do not think it is necessary to declare the birthday of Petar the Second Petrović Njegoš as a national holiday.
"At no time did we want to politicize this issue, and even less to try to diminish or relativize the literary dimension and significance of Njegoš's work. Also, none of us talked about Njegoš as a genocidal poet, but about some ideas of his work, specifically 'Mountain Wreath', whose literal interpretation was an inspiration to some later perpetrators of crimes, to use them as an apology for their projects of ethnic cleansing, Christianization... In fact, we consider it extremely inappropriate that in civil Montenegro the date of his birth is declared a national holiday, if it is known that some ideas of that work, in a literal interpretation, were the conceptual concept and justification for the perpetrators of crimes against the Islamic population in the 19th and 20th centuries. Montenegro and the surrounding area," he said.
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