Gay festival during Ramadan angers Bosnia Muslims

by Maja Zuvela
Reuters
August 29, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/820/gay-festival-during-ramadan-angers-bosnia-muslims

Excerpt:

Plans to hold Bosnia's first gay festival during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan were denounced by the Muslim community on Thursday as an affront to religious feelings.

As in most of the Balkans, there is little tolerance for homosexuality in Bosnia, where for many it remains a taboo.

"Such an event dangerously threatens our religious feelings. It is not appropriate to hold it during the Ramadan," said Ezher Beganovic, a journalist with the Islamic magazine Saff.

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