The Islamic Religious Community (IRC) is finishing the process of reconciliation with the persons whom until recently it has claimed to be prime promoters of Islamic radicalism in Macedonia. Following the appeal of the president of IRC, Sulejman Rexhepi, for normalization of the relations, at the seat of this religious community, a meeting took place with Imam Bekir Halimi, who was said to be one of the leaders of wahhabism in Macedonia, Dnevnik reports.

The meeting is said to have gone in a friendly atmosphere and therefore no tension can be expected in the future over whose representatives are in control of mosques in Skopje. The problem with Halimi, as well as with Imam Ramadan Ramadani, occurred last year when the IRC accused them of usurping the Isa-beg mosque in the Skopje Old Bazaar and turning it into a hotbed of radical Islam.