re europe vs muslim bosnians in article su tf f r venus haverford edu michael sells m sells haverford edu writes 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 muslim in ex yugoslavia was a nation not a religion in fact not all muslims in b h are followers of islam therefore there do did exist in ex yugoslavia christian muslims tito defined the muslim nation constitutionally adding muslims to serbs croats and slovenes the three founding nations which entered into a voluntary union at the end of wwi in addition tito added two other nations constitutionally montenegrins and makedonijans nations had the right of secession but republics did not so muslim is much more a political term than a religious term for those who differentiate between religion and politics that is in b h it was not a christo slavic ideology that made a muslim nation in yugoslavia it was the atheist communist ideology of tito before tito there was no muslim nation in yugoslavia the war is not a religious war and it is not an ethnic war it is a civil war in which the terms of secession are being negotiated with guns instead of pens the croat muslim and serb political leaders all chose to fight over the terms of secession instead of compromising and peacefully negotiating multilateral secession agreements nick
