The Bosniak Party (BS) will not support the decision to declare the birthday of Peter the Second Petrović Njegoš as a national holiday, because, as the party announced, such a decision is inappropriate for civil Montenegro.
At the last session, the government proposed changes to the Law on State and Other Holidays, which stipulates that November 13, the day of Njegoš's birth, will be a state holiday.
BS said that they expected that marking the two centuries of Njegoš's birth would be an occasion to look at his work from a critical distance, without mythomania and complexes, "and at least remove from school textbooks those contents that insult Muslims and send dangerous messages... of intolerance ”
The BS assessed that such a decision was inappropriate for civil Montenegro, stating that they expect the authorities to review it.
"Without evaluating the literary dimension and significance of Njegoš's work, we consider it extremely inappropriate that in civil Montenegro his birthday is declared a national holiday, especially if it is known that some ideas of that work, in their literal interpretation, were the conceptual concept and justification for the perpetrators of crimes and genocide over the Islamic population both in the 19th and in the 20th century, in Montenegro and the surrounding area", says the announcement.
BS said that they expected that the commemoration of two centuries of Njegoš's birth would be a good occasion to, as they stated, look at his work from a critical distance, without mythomania and complexes, "and at least remove from school textbooks those contents that insult Muslims and send dangerous messages of religious and ethnic intolerance".
"Let's remind you that after the Second World War in Germany, in order to renounce the ideas of Nazism and fascism for the whole society, many well-known and well-known writers and content were removed that had any admixture of those ideas that caused so much harm to humanity," they stated from BS.
They assessed that modern Montenegro, which both in its historical foundation and in social reality, rests on the loyalty of citizens of the Islamic religion, should have more sensitivity towards that population.
"The state strategy of imposing the celebration of the birthday of the Romantic poet, whose most significant work is based on an anti-Islamic civilizational concept, is not a contribution to building the values of multi-religious Montenegro", according to BS.
From that party, they stated that in Montenegro, for several decades, there has been a literary award with Njegoš's name, "whose justification is not questioned by anyone".
"That literary award was enough not to reach for the additional imposition of the celebration of Njegoš, who is considered by a significant part of multi-religious Montenegro to be the author of many offensive, derogatory and religiously exclusive content directed against Islamic civilization, which has been based on the territory of Montenegro for centuries," they warned. from BS.
They stated that the descendants of those whom Njegoš derogatorily called "unbaptized", "Krmish pouters", "lepers from Torina" "built today's Montenegro and are equally proud of their contribution to the restoration of its statehood, no less than other peoples in Montenegro ".
"We expect that the competent institutions will reconsider the decision to establish this holiday, because it threatens the concept of a civil and multi-religious Montenegro", they said from BS.
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