[Beckwith]

These regions or countries have never been christian

The western coast of the Balkan peninsula, Illyria, later known as Albania, was evangelized as part of the Holy Roman Empire in the first centuries. It was conquered in the 1400s by the Ottoman Turks. The forced conversion to Islam resulted in a majority Muslim population by the 18th century.

Bosnia Herzegovina was also a member of the Holy Roman Empire for a thousand years, though physically and intellectually isolated from the Catholic mainstream. Bosnia, was also conquered by the Ottoman Turks but there was no sudden, mass conversion of the Bosnian Catholic Church to Islam, but rather a multiple process of population movements and conversions in the 15th and 16th centuries.

[stefan10]

You are right that are the facts but he situation today and by the way all these problems in that region is a result of the developments you presented here.

If you like this more these regions are muslim regions for centuries and not result of present immigration as this article wants us to believe. Perhaps if the turks were not stopped at Vienna whole europe would be muslim today.

The article simply creates a wrong impression.