Cleaning house

From The Washington Post:

ZENICA, Bosnia -- They met in 1985 as Syrian immigrants in Croatia, two students in their 20s grappling with a language and a culture they didn't understand.

Seven years later, when word spread of a nearby war being waged by fellow Muslims, Ayman Awad and Imad Al Husayn boarded a bus for Bosnia and joined the fight, they recounted. After peace came in 1995, they married local women, became Bosnian citizens and started families. They settled in ravaged rural villages and fostered a strict religious code that contrasted sharply with the more relaxed Islam endemic to this country's native Muslims.

Now, Awad, 42, and Husayn (who goes by the nickname Abu Hamza), 43, may again be on the move, this time not by choice. Earlier this year, the Bosnian government revoked the two men's citizenship as part of a broad review of foreign-born residents that was urged by the United States. It has led to the denationalization of at least 500 people, about 70 percent of whom arrived here from throughout the Muslim world during the three-year ethnic civil war.

Awad and Husayn have been given 60 days to appeal the decisions against them. If unsuccessful, they and a few dozen others who remain in the country and are embroiled in similar proceedings could be deported.

Bosnian and international officials say the presence of the former fighters -- who, like predecessors in the war against the Soviet army in Afghanistan, are known as mujaheddin, Arabic for "strugglers" -- is illegal. The officials say some of them maintain links to terrorist groups, creating a security threat for Bosnia.

The second paragraph tells you what you really need to know. The pair came to Bosnia because they wanted to participate in bloodshed and they are spreading the form of Islam which is most likely to produce terrorists.

The same thing happened to the SA after Hitler took power. They were fine for breaking heads in street riots against communists but when trying to administer a working government they were more of a hindrance than a help and had to be dealt with.

One of the characteristics of fundamentalist Muslims is that they regard any other Muslim who doesn't believe exactly the same things they believe as an apostate deserving of death. How long do you suppose it would be before these guys and others like them put together a civil war to restore "true Islam" to Bosnia.

I don't have a great deal of sympathy for the Bosnian government, but I do give them credit for having enough sense to take out the trash.