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To: WaterLane
Re Abdic, there are quite a few Bosnian Muslims here in the States who disagree with you on Abdic. And who also disagree with you about where Abdic's forces went after the war:

"And this is what i can tell you from my personal experience. I came with my family as a refugee from Bosnia, we were small part of these 70.000 muslims that escaped "modernism" of Alija Izetbegovic and came to Serbia. We were accepted well and treated equally with all other Serbian refugees. Today my family lives in Serbia and has no intention of going back to this "New Bosnia"."

As for Kusturica:

"At the outset of the siege of Sarajevo, Kusturica wrote an impassioned plea in Le Monde for his battered city. Not long after that, Bosnian Muslim irregulars looted the Sarajevo apartment belonging to his parents, who had moved to Montenegro; even his film prizes were taken. A few months later, his father died of a heart attack. ''This war killed him too,'' Kusturica said at the time. And this, perhaps above all, is something he is not willing to forgive Sarajevo for.

''My father was always saying we were Serbs,'' he says, ''but I didn't pay much attention.'' Kusturica finally went to a library and says he confirmed that the Kusturicas had been Orthodox Christian Serbs until, a few centuries ago, a branch of the family converted to Islam when the region was under Ottoman domination. It's a common ancestral story among Bosnia's Muslim Slavs, few of whom consider themselves Serbs because of it. For his part, Kusturica refused to see himself as either a Bosnian Muslim or Serb. Instead, like a good number of Sarajevens, he affirmed his loyalty to the Yugoslav experiment, a complex cultural brew of Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, gypsies -- a mix of religions and ethnicities and historical nationalities that together formed a single nation."

Kusturica's great "sin" was that he still believed in the idea of "Yugoslavia", not in "Milosevic" -- and he could recognize a badly-written narrative about the break-up of Yugoslavia being peddled by the MSM, whee he saw it.

So why aren't you still back in your "beautiful Islamic Bosnia"? Given you helped create it, why would you leave?

49 posted on 08/14/2007 3:37:25 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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