This story was too good not to post it:
The terror of the Bosnian war is still alive on the streets of Bosnia and Herzegovina, filled with poignant images of bullet holes on the facades of buildings and other structures laid completely to waste. The Sultan Mehmed Fatih Ensemble, whose repertoire consists of Muslim hymns, called ilahis, stands amidst and against this past hatred and atrocity with its members of Croatian, Serb and Bosnian origin. The members are all students at the Ilidza School of Music and each of them stands as a testimony to what tolerance, love, dialogue and brotherhood can achieve.
They breathe in the peace the Ottomans brought to Balkan soil, singing ilahis from a united heart, “La ilaha ilAllah” (“There is no deity except God,” a part of the Muslim proclamation of faith called the Shahadah, or being a witness). They don’t care if they are criticized by those who find it hard to understand how a person of Orthodox or Catholic faith can praise the name of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.
From Sunday Zanam
