Good morning! Here we are, for the second time, learning from secret correspondences that hate graffiti were allegedly written by the secret police. What can I say — if that’s true, then our services employed not only evil but also extremely foolish people. However, what insults the intelligence of every normal person is the attempt by the hipster wing of the late 30 August movement to convince us that hatred toward Muslims among their coalition partners does not exist.
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Hate Against Muslims in Montenegro Does Not Exist. Now We Finally Have Proof.
This claim from the headline — both implicitly and explicitly — has been repeated for days like parrots. They found “proof” that hatred is fabricated because some “geniuses” in the security services allegedly decided to intimidate Bosniaks from the north to keep them away from the group from DF and others who, as they say, only want what’s best for them.
If it is proven that officials wrote those graffiti, those people should end up in prison. Not so much because of malice, but because of stupidity.
Do you realise how absurd what they are trying to prove is? First, they tried to portray the liturgical movement as emancipatory. Then they convinced us that the Serbian Orthodox Church is a democratic and inclusive institution. And then they labelled all of us who did not support the religious processions as criminals and mercenaries, convincing the public that Montenegro would live in peace and harmony without us.
If it weren’t for those “fake graffiti,” there wouldn’t have been crimes in Sahovici. Pavle Djurisic wouldn’t have killed so many people. The genocide in Srebrenica wouldn’t have happened.
If it weren’t for the “graffiti,” the van of Bosnian fans wouldn’t have been set on fire. A few days ago, a boy from Sarajevo wouldn’t have been beaten while being insulted with “balija” (a derogatory term).
Do you understand how not only absurd but also shameless it is to claim something like that?
Do you remember that loudmouth from Berane who was preparing an attack on Rozaje to “deal with” the intervention unit from that town because the policemen weren’t “right-believing”? Was he also invented by the National Security Agency?
In our lifetime, Montenegro was a co-aggressor in Croatia and Bosnia. That is not some distant past. All that suffering is still fresh and painful. And now someone has the nerve to loudly claim that hatred was artificially provoked.
Even if some officials fueled it at some point, that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. Those officials have long since been out of power. And the dominant religious community’s attitude toward minorities hasn’t changed one bit. Just watch Dajkovic’s video from a few days ago, where he openly stokes hatred in Bijelo Polje.
Don’t relativise the ideology that has brought so much pain and suffering, an ideology that is exclusive and discriminatory. No fight against the mafia and crime can justify hatred, division, and violence.
That’s all for today and for this week. See you again on Monday.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
(Columnists’ opinions and views are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial team)
