“Serbian caucus” in US Congress

B92 ^ | September 15th 2004 | Serbia-Montenegro Embassy

[Nennsy]

“Serbian caucus” in US Congress | 13:34 September 15 | B92

WASHINGTON -- Wednesday – The Administrative Committee of the US Congress House of Representatives has formally approved the established of an informal “Serbian caucus”, the Serbia-Montenegro Embassy in Washington announced today.

The two-party group will present and explain to the Congress issues connected to the political, economic and security climate in Serbia and the Balkans.

The group will be chaired by jointly by Republican Congressman Dan Barton and Democrat Rham Emanuel.

[Nennsy]

it's about time... Ping!

[2banana]

Start with explaining the islamic terrorists training and planning operations in Albania...

[FormerLib]

An interesting ping!

[Nennsy]

Please, ping others!

[F-117A]

Bump!

[bboop]

Serbs are Muslims, are they not? This is like CAIR's 'outreach' to 'explain' Islam to the American public, then, is it not? Because OTHERWISE it would not make any sense, without a Dog and Pony Show to the Senators. gag

[Jane_N]

"Serbs are Muslims, are they not?"

Excuse me? What planet have you been living on? Majority Serbs are Orthodox Christian. There is a Muslim minority in Serbs (for example the majority Albanians in the Serbian province Kosovo). The war in Bosnia during the 90's was also between Serbs (Orthodox as I said above), Croatians (Catholics) and "Bosniaks" (Muslims). Maybe you should read up on the Balkans before you comment.

[Verginius Rufus]

Serbs are definitely NOT Muslims. Historically they were all members of the Serbian Orthodox Church (now after decades of Communism probably a significant number are atheists).

In most of the former Yugoslavia, apart from Slovenia and Macedonia and the non-Slavic ethnic minorities, the people spoke mutually-intelligible dialects. Those speakers who were Orthodox by religion or ancestry considered themselves Serbs (or Montenegrins--sometimes considered Serbs, sometimes regarded as a distinct group); those who were Catholic by religion or ancestry called themselves Croats; those who were Muslims were referred to as Muslims (or Bosniaks if inhabitants of Bosnia--there are also Slavic Muslims in the so-called Sandzak, formerly a distinct region, now divided between Serbia proper and Montenegro).

[Jane_N]

"There is a Muslim minority in Serbs"

Sorry, typo..should be "There is a Muslim minority in Serbia".

[Tolik]

Here is an interesting map of the former Yugoslavia with ethnic majorities in different colors as per 1991. Lots of things happened since...

Note, that the issues there are highly contested, lots of blood spilled, and I can't vouch for any info being 100% true.

 Anyway, for what it worth...

 

From another source: http://home.zonnet.nl/gerardvonhebel/yugoethno.htm

Ethnography of Yugoslavia as it was in 1991

 http://home.zonnet.nl/gerardvonhebel/yugogrowthanddecline.htm

The Yugoslavian growth and decline

1813 1815 1878

1908 1913 1923

19431955 1999