re europe vs muslim bosnians michael sells m sells haverford edu writes subject re europe vs muslim bosnians from f oguocha date may gmt 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 you ve asked a crucial question that underlies much of the genocide bosnian muslims are slavic in ethnicity they speak serbo croatian but there is a christo slavic ideology whereby all true slavs are christian and anyone who converted to islam thereby must have changed ethnicity by changing religion see the poems of ngegos or the novels of ivo andric who brilliantly displays these attitudes on the part of what he calls the people i e christian slavs for this reason the war criminals call all the bosnian muslims turks even though they are not ethnically turk and do not speak turkish as their first language for this reason what is actually a genocide labeled against those who are ethnically identical but religiously other is called paradoxically ethnic cleansing rather than religious cleansing you are somewhat close to truth but you shouldn t forget that nationality is a recent invention of the western europe in the days of the ottoman empire the religion was the main point of difference between social classes the ottomans didn t recognize turks arabs greeks serbs just christians muslims jews so for all the interested parties in the ottoman society the bosnian muslims were turks after all there aren t many real ethnic turks living even in turkey today even in europe it s the culture that defines the ethnicity and religion is part of one s culture thus while a war rages between serbs and croats as a continuation of wwii and older agenda the annihilation of islam and muslims from bosnian is being carried out under the cover of the serbo croat war can you support this bye yannis
