Career
Since she was taken to a monastery and baptized, Omanović has remained a symbol of Christian proselytism attempts on Bosniaks. Fata dreaded her fate and sought advice from her Catholic neighbors who persuaded her to escape to Dalmatia and renounce her religion. On the night of 2–3 May 1899, Fata met up with a Croat "guide" who led her on the 32-kilometer journey to Dalmatia.
On 5 May 1899, several leading Bosniaks of Mostar organized a protest meeting due to the kidnapping of young Fata Omanović by Catholic missionaries who took her to a monastery and baptized her.
The Bosniaks formed a committee headed by the Mostar Mufti Ali Džabič. They called on the ruling Austro-Hungarian Empire to return Fata and put an end to religious conversions.
Historian Hivzija Hasandedić (1915–2003) chronicled the case of Fata Omanović and three other forced conversions at the turn of the century in Herzegovina.
