Serbia: Muslim Groups Brawl, Historic Church Desecrated....

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07 April 2008- Two rival Muslim groups have clashed over the right to hold prayer in a mosque while a Serbian Orthodox Church was desecrated in a separate incident in southwest Serbia.

The Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Serbia, headed by reis Adem Zilkic, charged that rival members of the Islamic Community headed by mufti Muamer Zukorlic stopped Zilkic’s followers of holding prayers at the mosque in the town of Trnava, near Novi Pazar, the biggest town in Sandzak, the mostly Muslim populated region in Serbia.

In the meantime, Zilkic sternly condemned an incident in which unknown perpetrators wrote "vulgar and offensive" graffiti on the wall of the Serb Orthodox Church in Novi Pazar.

The church of St. Peter in Novi Pazar was built in the 9th century, and is the oldest preserved Serbian place of worship.

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