''Ljiljan'' was a Bosnian weekly news-political and cultural

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. It is named after the golden Bosnian lily, which is considered the

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of the

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. It was founded by the

Party of Democratic Action The Party of Democratic Action (; abbr. SDA) is a Bosniak nationalist, conservative political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. History The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) was founded on 26 May 1990 in Sarajevo, as a "party of Muslim cultural ...

(SDA) () in 1990 as a successor to ''Muslimanski Glas'' (Muslims' Voice), the official bulletin of the party. With the name change it obtained a formal editorial independence, though it still reflected conservative Bosniak political positions, close to the SDA party. For instance, figures connected to ''Ljiljan'' have been known to oppose mixed marriages between Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, deeming them an imposition from the Socialist times.Tanja Petrovic
Ugrabljena ljubezen / Oteta ljubav / Abducted Love: Priroènik za pouk državljanske vzgoje / Priruènik za nastavu graðanskog vaspitanja / Workbook for the teaching about civic education
Volume 2 of Zbirka Moj zvezek. Ed. Založba ZRC, 2011, p.96 It was published in Sarajevo and distributed in the

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and abroad. In 1996 its circulation was 60,000 copies, of which 85% abroad. In a 1998 study, ''Ljiljan'' was found to proactively employ

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, and

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over

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equivalents as a symbolic affirmation of Islamic identity. In a similar 2002 study, the magazine was also found, along with '' Dnevni avaz'', which also has a Bosniak nationalist orientation, to favour a conservative approach to linguistic standards of the

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rather than liberally employing terms which are considered "

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" or " Croatian."

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