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I said Stop making this an attack on Orthodoxy. I do not see this as being that, I see the entire Kosovo issue as being more ethnic than anything

you said Your superficial naivete regarding ethnicity and religion or ideology in the Balkans leads you to wrong conclusions.

How do the two sentences co-relate? FACT: the Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Montenegrins, Macedonians are southern Slavs. FACT: there were Thracians-Dacian-Illyrians living in the lands that are now occupied by the former Yugoslav and Albania and parts of northern Greece and European Turkey. FACT: both the Thracians-D-I's and the Slavs were Indo-European. FACT: in other influxes of populations around the world, the natives are subsumed in the newcomers, and the cultures could go either way.

examples for this -- Dorians, Alexandrine-era Macedonians took Greek culture and became Greeks. Another: the Ainu were assimilated into the Japanese. Another: the Akkadians took over Sumerian cities but the base strata of people remained the same and the culture was Sumerian-Akkadian. Another: the Bulgars conquered what is now Bulgaria but the majority "blood" in Bulgaria is Slavic. Another Turkic tribe conquered Azerbaijan, but the people there are Irani, the Die Viet conquered the Champa but the Champa still remain.

Now, let's look at specifics. Before the Bulgarians came in, you had Slavs and T-D-I's living in the Balkans. Serbs, Croats and Bosnians are essentially the same people separated by religion -- granted that the separated is 400 to 1000 years old. Serbs, Croats, Bosnians live near where the Albanians have lived, correct? There WOULD be dissemination of bloodlines and genetics holds that as true.

Now, keeping all of that in mind, what are the wrong conclusions you say I have made?