It was a traditional visit of the imam to present the culture and the religious practice of Islam as well as the mentality and religious habits of the domicile population of Afghanistan to the troops deployed to the ISAF. The lecture was part of the \u201eHrvatski ponos 13\/1\u201c Exercise that has cocluded the extensive preparation for the ISAF operation. To attend it were also 33 members of the Army of Montenegro, who are joined to the Croatian Contingent as formalisation of the bilateral co-operation expanded from the partnership relations within the A 5 Initiative. The imam Botonji\u0107 underlined the experiences and observations by the mufti Ph D. Aziz effendi Hasanovi\u0107 at the occasion of his recent visit to the 20th Croatian Contingent in the Camp Marmal in December 2012, accompanied by the Chief of the General Staff, Lt.Gen. Drago Lovri\u0107, when he also met the Supreme Mufti of Afghanistan and his associates in the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif.<\/p>\n
After the lecture, the imam Botonji\u0107 was received by Col Sini\u0161a Jurkovi\u0107, the Executive Officer of the Exercise and the Commander of the Armoured Mechanised Guard Brigade, Lt Col Denis Tretinjak, the Exercise Director and the Chief of the Armoured and Mechanised Guard Brigade,\u00a0 Col. Kre\u0161o Tu\u0161kan, the Commander of the 21st HRVCON and Alojz Kova\u010dek, the Army Chaplain, who himself participated in the ISAF Operation on two occasions.
The officers emphasised the importance of receiving of the lectures and information related to Muslim tradition and customs of the Afghani society, and their utility for the Croatian soldiers deployed to the Operation in a multinational environment, which requires sychronised\u00a0 operation of the military, the Police and humanitarian organisations and interaction with the domicile population in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The members of the 21st Croatian Contingent preparing for the deployment in the ISAF Operation at the Army training area at Ga\u0161inci have today 8 February, received in visit the Head of the Office to the Mufti, Nermin effendi Botonji\u0107. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n