Leaders of AIO are said to have made inflammatory statements in which they criticized Bosnian Muslims for accepting too many habits of their Christian neighbours.
On 24 December 2002 a young Muslim fanatic, Muamer Topalović, shot three members of a Croat returnee family in Konjic, 80 km south of Sarajevo.
It has been established that AIO received donations in the past from large Saudi charities, such as the Al Haramain Foundation.
In the fall of 2002, U.S. authorities declared Al Haramain a sponsor of terrorist networks and froze its assets in the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The organization is experiencing financial troubles, as many of its former donors have stopped sending money because of the bad reputation that AIO has acquired.
It covers its expenses through internet clubs and from selling Islamic magazines and literature, but its future is uncertain.