Being Muslim the Bosniak Way

Originally posted by Hamoudeh It seems to me that in Bosnia, as well as some other Muslim countries, there exists a confusion between what is traditional way of its people and foreign influences.

Islam too is a "foreign influence" for all countries outside Arabic peninsula

Originally posted by YuGo [QUOTE=Hamoudeh] It seems to me that in Bosnia, as well as some other Muslim countries,

Sorry, I don't want to ruin this thread.... but, it bugs me when people confuze Bosnia as a Muslim country. There is no religion that makes a majority over 50% of the Bosnian population, and if anything both Orthodox Bosnians and Catholic Bosnians belong to Christianity, which makes up 48.6% of the population.. while Muslims make up 43%...

Anyways, Nice topic!

 Muslims are well over 50% Now.Before they were 47%,Including those Yugoslavs

Cya claims 48%
And my source is demography

Here is breakdown by each county

According to the CIA's official fact book, 40% of Bosnia-Herzegovina's population identified themselves as "Muslim" and 48% identified themselves as "Bosniaks" - in either classification, it is clearly that the Bosniak or Muslim population forms the bulk of the country's population.

It is reasonable to assume that 48% of Bosnians are Muslim by descent since that is the number that chose to identify themselves as "Bosniaks" -a term that was only recently introduced in order to replace the old Yugoslavian term "Muslim" - the small percentage of Bosniaks that chose not to classify themselves as "Muslims" may not have done so for a variety of reasons, the most probable being that they are not religious or devout or that they come from a mixed background.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bk.html#Pe ople

The current population of Bosniaks in the world stands ar 3.1 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks

Bosnia currently enjoys "observer" status in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (previously known as the Organization of Islamic Countries) and is awaiting full membership.

http://www.sesrtcic.org/oic/oicaccda.shtml

I didn't read all the posts in this thread, but I appreciated Mila's first post. I would like to ask her and any other Bosniaks or Bosnian Muslims on this forum how they feel about the mass rapes of Muslim women, and the whole scale massacres of Muslim men at the hands of Serbs that took place during the war. What is the general perception that Muslims/Bosniaks have of Serbs now? Considering the subhuman ways in which Serbs raped, gang raped, and murdered Muslim women and men, I would think that the Bosniaks naturally gravitated back towards their Islamic roots and identification.

 

 

 

Edited by Master_Blaster

Bosniak population is around 8 or 9 million
Only in Albania there is some 50 000 Bosniaks,but most declare themself as other or Albanian from pressure,but when census is done they are still Bosniak.Some 80% ,rest consider themself as Bosniak.There is town in Albania with some 20 000 people,more then third of people consider themself Bosniaks,but with pressure and some respect,for host Albanians,declare themself as Albanians

There is also town called Debar in Macedonia,where Macedonians dont count Bosniaks,but just put Gorani or Torbeshi,though those people dont feel like that


Bosniaks who came into Turkey 100 years ago  stil regard themself as Bosniak and Turk
If people could report dual ethnicity  in Turkey ,number of Bosniaks would jump to some 5 million if not more

Sorry its in Bosnia
But if you type in google Bosnia Turkey bosneli or bosnawi you will get lot of hits
Some were my essays i wrote about
1) Bosniaks in Albania some 50 000 just 10 000 official
2) Bosniaks in Macedonia same number, only 20 000 declare themself as Bosnian
3) Bosniaks in Turkey with more distant relatives number,prepare yourself for this 9 million
Yes 9 million

MILA, AWESOME THREAD!!!! MASHALLAH!

I really like Ceric more and more now. And I wish our people continue to be muslim the way we've always been, we don't need foreigners to teach us about that.

I am still confused as to why the Bosnian Muslims sought independance from the then-Yugoslavia since there are hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims still residing in Serbia and Montenegro and they seem to be living there in relative peace with their Slavic kinsmen.

Originally posted by balkanitus War raged in Croatia from '91-'95, the only places in the former Yugoslavia which were not impacted greatly by civil war were Macedonia, and Montenegro. Slovenia had a 10 day war for independence.