Yugoslav Moslem Organization

Yugoslav Moslem Organization

Yugoslav Moslem Organization ( _sh. Jugoslavenska Muslimanska Organizacija) was a Bosnian Muslim political party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was founded in 1919 and was led by Mehmed Spaho. [Lopasic, Alexander. " [http://www.jstor.org/stable/194542 Bosnian Muslims: A Search for Identity] ", in "Bulletin" (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 8, No. 2, (1981), pp. 115-125] In election campaigns the JMO did mobilize on religious slogans rather than Bosnian nationality, calling failure of Muslims to vote for the party as a sin. The party had considerable influence in Islamic religious institutions, and JMO came to dominate the political life in Bosnia. The party appealed to Muslims throughout Yugoslavia, urging them not to migrate to Turkey. [http://www.yorku.ca/soi/_Vol_5_1/_HTML/Sadkovich.html Sadkovich: Reconsidering Bosnia-Herzegovina ] ]

In 1921 JMO aligned itself with the governing Serbian parties. The support of JMO was important to pass the new constitution. This alliance became shortlived though. In 1922 a new Muslim party, Yugoslav Moslem People's Organization (JMNO), was formed and overtook the role as the Muslim ally of the Serbian parties. JMNO did however fail to attract any major section of the JMO vote-bank. In 1923 the party founded the cultural organization "Narodna Uzdanica".

JMO entered into a short-lived alliance with the Slovenian People's Party and the Croatian Republican Peasant Party. After the alliance the broke down in 1925, JMO found itself politically isolated and came under attack from Serbian paramilitaries. At one time the paramilitaries attempted to kill Shapo.

In 1927 the party suffered some set-back in the election. After the election JMO joined a Serbian-led government. At this time the profile of JMO shifted, as it began to stress that it was a Bosnian party, rather than Muslim or Yugoslav.

JMO was banned by Alexander I, along with other ethnical parties.

Election results

[ [http://www.elisanet.fi/daglarsson/dokumentit/yugval1.htm YUGVAL1 ] ]

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