Kosovo Police are investigating graffiti daubed on the walls of one of University of Pristina faculties against President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci, Mayor of Pristina Shpend Ahmeti, and the head of Kosovo’s Islamic Community Naim Ternava. The graffiti was discovered today and it threatens the three officials with death for allowing the construction of a Muslim mosque in Pristina.

Kosovo’s Islamic Community insists that the mosque near the Ibër/Ibar river in the northern part of Mitrovica, destroyed during the conflict, will be reconstructed in its original place. Islamic Community’s Secretary General, Resul Rexhepi, said the reason why the mosque was not reconstructed by now has to do with security concerns.

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo through a press statement condemned the attempt by a Kosovo Serb to demolish the minaret of a mosque in the village of Velekincë, in Gjilan municipality a few days ago. "Ambassador Schlumberger condemns attack on Velekinca Mosque and commends police and local leadership for response that keeps this incident isolated,” reads the statement. Also the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo condemned the incident.

The leader of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, Naim Ternava, through a press statement on Monday condemned the attempt by a Kosovo Serb to demolish the minaret of a mosque in the village of Velekincë, in Gjilan municipality. Ternava said the attack on religious buildings, regardless of motives, is an unacceptable act and as such incites hatred, intolerance and more violence. “We urge the authorities to take appropriate measures for the security of religious buildings.

The leader of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, Naim Ternava, said today in Pristina that fostering inter-religious and inter-human tolerance is one of the priorities of the institution he leads. At a meeting with the Austrian Ambassador in Kosovo, Gernot Pfandler, Ternava said that extremism, violence and terrorism have nothing in common with Islam. “It is our responsibility to provide a proper explanation of Islam, far from narrow-minded and extreme interpretations that use religion for other interests,” Ternava said.

The Islamic Community of Kosovo (BIK) has expressed concern after the arrest of 12 imams in several locations in Kosovo during a police operation aimed at combating the incitement of inter-religious hatred and national division. Ahmet Sadriu, spokesman for the Islamic Community, told Radio Free Europe that BIK is concerned with the fact that imams were escorted to the police, but also added that “no one can be above the law and institutions need to do their job”.