The Yugoslav Partisans claim that the Axis forces rewarded Jakup for the actions he undertook with Adem Kurtagić and Šefko Bećiragić, when all Orthodox villages were burnt and their population massacred.

[3][need quotation to verify] Mirko Ćuković (1064) claims that armed bands from the city killed dozens of Serbs in Novi Pazar in only a couple of hours.

[4] On 3 February 1944 the units of the Muslim militia under command of Mullah Jakup and also Bilall Dreshaj, Sinan Salković and Faik Bahtijarević attacked villages around Kolašin.

[5] On the other hand Albanian sources stress that after the Battle of Novi Pazar Kardović personally protected from revenge killings 420 Serbs whose families had links to Chetniks.

After the end of Yugoslavia, local attitudes started to be articulated more openly, even more so after the independence of Montenegro (2006) where Rožaje is located.