“Mr Đurović, 

I have read your official letter carefully and I find it necessary to reply to you with regard to your allegations addressed to me. 

A significant portion of the scientific public in Montenegro has, backed by arguments in the linguistic domain, voiced their very negative assessment regarding the edition ofthe Dictionary of Montenegrin Popular and Literary Language. If we add to this the facts, namely examples of entries from  the Dictionary, to whose content we had pointed out multiple times, and which deeply offend national and especially religious sentiment of a significant number of citizens of Montenegro, I am very surprised that you say that these positions are “without clear arguments”. 

Furthermore, you know that the Parliament is the house of elected representatives of the people, where, among other things, the problems of the citizens are presented. Insults and demeaning content on the Bosniaks, Albanians and Muslims, which are a product, accidental or intentional, of the “scientific” project of the CANU, logically cannot pass by without a response of their political representatives. Therefore, the MPs have a duty to talk about it, in the belief that the responsible institutions will react and put an end to such attitude towards a significant number of citizens of Montenegro. 

If you are invoking the civilised approach and the 21st century, I am asking you - is it appropriate, at any time period, to publish an edition with such offensive content? Do the citizens of multi-confessional and multi-national Montenegro deserve to have that come from the institution which should be an example both in scientific and cultural sense? Do the appeals of the scientific public and of more than a hundred of public workers of all faiths and nations not alert you that the CANU had made a serious scientific and civilizational lapse? 

And, finally, I thank you for inviting me to visit the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is possible, but only after your institution apologises to the citizens of Montenegro, especially national Bosniaks and Albanians, as well as to all members of the Islamic faith, due to deliberate, untrue, as well as chauvinistic qualifications of their religion and of their cultural and national distinctiveness.And, of course, only after you permanently recall the entire edition of the Dictionary  from the public circulation, so that no copies remain with elements of disgraceful and insulting attitude towards a significant number of citizens of Montenegro.

           Respectfully,

Suljo Mustafić“