Abu Igor in the pre-election populism of fake leftists

By: Muamer Bandić, delegate in the KS Assembly

It is a well-known fact that the current Vice-President of the Federation of BiH, Abu Igor Stojanović, was a member of the 1st Corps of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. And I am sincerely and heartily grateful to him for that. Thanks to this fact, Abu Igor built a political career, holding a number of political and advisory positions in Sarajevo, and advancing to the position of Vice-President of the FBiH.

Today, about 30 years later, this same man writes that the then political leadership of Bosniaks wanted to create an Islamic state on a small piece of our country's territory. And consider the logic, this same man who writes this participated in that fight!

I don't understand at all how Abu Igor didn't realize, while he was a member of the ARBiH, that he was actively participating in the fight to create an Islamic state, but it took him about 30 years and the time of the election campaign for local elections to realize this!?

Why is Abu Igor today tarnishing the uniform he wore, the flag with lilies under which he fought, and openly spitting in the face of his comrades by spreading these vile propaganda lies, which even the champions of psychological-propagandistic warfare against BiH and Bosniaks, Risto Đogo or Smiljko Šagolj, would not be ashamed of?

For everyone who follows the work of the Trojka, especially the propaganda part of their work, what is happening is no surprise. Moreover, this is an expected propaganda move by empty talkers and well-practiced populists, who confuse our citizens with constant lies. Perhaps they have run out of inventiveness for new lies, so with this move they are returning us to the good old hits, just so they don't have to deal with the present and the real problems that we face as a broken and poorly led society.

And the golden rule of this propagandistic-psychological smoke screen is to throw the most bombastic accusation at the political opponent, and it is completely irrelevant whether it is true or false. Moreover, a lie is preferable, and the bigger and louder the better. The opponent is then forced to defend himself and has no time to deal with the present, while society is strongly polarized into two camps separated by an ideological abyss.

Therefore, Abu Igor and his friends today, in this pre-election period, do not want us to deal with the real problems that are the consequence of their rule: traffic collapses, parking problems, water supply, inflation and price increases, utility problems, poor education, destroyed healthcare, corruption and clientelism, undermining the constitutional and legal order, the dirtiness and disarray of our city.

The second goal that this psychological-propagandistic spin aims to achieve is to strongly polarize society into so-called Islamists and secularists, thereby mobilizing a mass of potential voters to go to the polls, exclusively on the basis of fear of each other, hatred, and division into "us" vs. "them". And for this purpose, this already worn-out and chewed-up lie is skillfully used.

If all that I have written were not true, Abu Igor would react with the same zeal to the formations of the Ravna Gora movement, the constant attacks of Milorad Dodik and his camarilla on the state of BiH, his coalition partners posing for photos with convicted war criminals, the constant glorification of war crimes and criminals by the "legitimate representatives" of the Serb and Croat peoples, and the constant denial of committed war crimes and genocide.

If he were truly sincere towards this country and towards the people, thanks to whose votes he sits in the chair of the Vice-President of the FBiH, he would react to protect state property, which is his constitutional obligation, even from the president of his own party, Nermin zvani Njiva. He would also react to the recent unconstitutional statements of his colleague and coalition partner Lidija Bradara.

But he doesn't! Abu Igor remains silent and pretends to be dead in all these real cases, and gladly engages in the good old propaganda hits on which the narrative of mobilizing illiterate masses for war against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina was built, paving the way for the greatest crimes on European soil after World War II.

With these vile lies, Abu Igor has not only betrayed his former comrades but also this noble city and our common state. I will recall the words of our late hero and commander Enver Šehović that we are not the army of one or two nations, but of the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. That's how it was, and that's how it will be, regardless of the fact that we, the Muslim believers, will seek help from our Almighty Lord in that fight. That is just our human side and part of our culture, which no one normal and well-intentioned should fear.

It is only sad to see that Abu Igor and his friends are not capable of offering the citizens of Sarajevo a development program worthy of a European capital in the 21st century, but instead wash away their inaction with spins, even borrowing ideas from those who mercilessly destroyed this city, burned libraries, and bloodily killed its inhabitants. After reading Abu Igor's realization, I think that the doyen of the fight against Islamists, Dževad Galijašević, has seriously worried about his own sinecure in President Milorad Dodik's all-encompassing fight against Islamism in our country.