Ethnic Serb Darko Panovic received a death threat from an “unknown†source after announcing plans for a Christian prayer meeting in a city of Novi Pazar that hosts large number of Muslims.
Panovic had plans to hold a prayer meeting on the corner of two streets during which time church music and prayers were to be played out of a car with speakers.
Panovic asked the police to provide security for his October 10 prayer in Novi Pazar.
Panovic said that death threats came after a Muslim web site sandzakpress.net published a "report" from Panovic’s group describing how Christian Serbs are planing a march in the "heart" of Novi Pazar which they deem as a Muslim capital of an independent state of Sandzak that some adherents in that area seek to make.
Sandzakpress.net claims that it’s aims are a "timely and truthful information for citizens of Sandzak, as to the northern so to the southern [Montenegrin] parts with goals to fight for elementary, individual and collective rights."
The obvious Islamic green background and the moon suggests, indeed, what this group, with a deceptive name connoting journalism, is fighting for.
The group also has a YouTube SandzakPRESS’s Channel that is littered with Islamic extremist themes and interviews with their Imam Zukorlic and his right hand man Imam Plojevic who was recently involved in an attack on a school principal.
As with all islamist sites, this one also follows the established Islamic presentation of "qualified tolerance" where tolerance of Christians and Jews is presented first only to be qualified inside the paragraph.
For example, the Sandzakpress.net presents a question of an unknown Muslim who asks Imam Plojevic whether it is un-islamic for him, a Muslim, to pray to Allah so that his Christian friend regains his health.
Following the "qualified tolerance" scheme, Plojevic says [tolerance] that it is good for Muslims to build relations with Christians but [qualification] as long as that does not harm Islam, ergo for the reader, it is good for Islam that the Christian dies. Therefore, Imam Plojevic advises the Muslim just to visit the Christian who should, in the interest of Islam, says Plojevic, die.
Question: "I live in the majority Christian encirclement and have one friend, a Christian, who lived through a hard auto accident… I want to know is it a sin to pray to Allah so that he heals faster?
Plojevic: "Islam does not forbid to members of Islam build and have relations with their neighbors… What is important is that building neighborly relations must not be to the detriment of Islam" so after avoiding to answer him about prayer to Allah, Plojevic stealthily plants what he should do instead. "The consequence [as in negative] and the result of building relations is visiting during the illness…"
As for the threats, Panovic says that he received calls at home by unknown men threatening to behead him and to impale him in the traditional Muslim Turkish way which can be seen here as an ongoing modern Muslim practice.
The calls came after Sandzakpress.com published Panovic’s home phone number.
On the web site comments threatening to kill Panovic or glorifying Islam were also published.
"We will slaughter all Serbs and kill them in Novi Pazar like we did in our Muslim Sarajevo," read one message.
"Run you Serbs, here come the Turks… Even Belgrade will be too little for you… From Sarajevo to Iran will be the land of Musulman,"