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SARAJEVO -- During the past week, an international Wahhabi organization has launched a campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina calling on non-Muslims to convert to Islam. The organization, which calls itself "Poziv u Raj" (Invitation To Heaven), has been putting up slick billboards and posters and distributing leaflets in Sarajevo, Bihac, Sanski Most, Maglaj, Zenica, Travnik, Tuzla, and Tesanj. The group also has been organizing public lectures in Bosnian cities and towns by a Greek man and a German man who recently converted to Islam. Those recent converts have repeated the group's call for non-Muslims to convert to Islam. They have also been...

LONDON (AlertNet) - A Bosnian painter has turned personal pain into a plea for harmony in an exhibition coinciding with Refugee Week that shows a traditional way of life destroyed by the nationalists who created the Balkan war. In doing so, he challenges the cliche that the conflict sprang simply from age-old animosity between ethnic groups. Pero Mandiæ fled to Serbia when fighting reached his home near the northern Bosnian town of Sanski Most in 1995, but his mother, who stayed behind, was killed shortly after he left. “The key message is that there was peace and harmony before the...