Balkans: Times' Journalist Stands By Radical Islam Claims

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The author of a disputed text published in the British newspaper The Sunday Times has told Balkan Insight that he did indeed speak with the head of the Macedonian Islamic Community, Sulejman Rexhepi, while Rexhepi’s office has claimed that the leader did not speak with the journalist and did not make any claims about the control of Skopje mosques by radical Islamists.

Bojan Pancevski, the author of the text about radical Islam that appeared in the British paper, said that he has the recordings of his conversations with three officials from the Macedonian Islamic Community, IVZ, including Sulejman Rexhepi.

“They all confirmed to me that four mosques were not under the IVZ control. I got the impression that they wanted this to be known in public,” Pancevski said.

via Journalist Stands By Radical Islam Claims :: BalkanInsight.com.

Two questions:

1. why doesn’t Pancevski publishes the most relevant parts of the recordings?
2. If those recordings are true, why that change in Mr Rexhepi’s statements? Has he been menaced by extremists?

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