re europe vs muslim bosnians in article may edison usask ca f oguocha edison usask ca writes in a previous article josip eng umd edu josip loncaric wrote actually just after the first world war many muslims were killed by serbs under serbian led regime between the two world wars many croats were also killed especially during the dictatorship introduced on jan josip please don t be offended at this question who are the muslims in the bosnian context i know that a moslem muslim is a believer in islam islam is a religion and it is practised in many parts of the world but it is not yes definitely not an ethinic group ok so these bosnian muslims who are they to which ethnic group do they belong what language s do they speak do they have a different language from that of the serbs or croats the way the western press use the word muslim in this bosnian debacle has kept me wondering when the meaning of muslim moslem i knew from childhood was changed in the dictionary this is just a question no flames intended oguocha it is indeed different usage of the word muslim in bosnia it is more or less used as an ethnic term not as religious one there are people in bosnia who refer to themselves as christian bosnian muslims if you can make sense of that bosnian serbs and bosnian muslims have the same language bosnian muslims are mainly beleivers of islam i got this from bosnian muslim friend of mine who goes to university of texas in austin jama
