The Plight of the Bosnian Serbs

Brussels Journal ^ | 7/23/08 | John Laughland

[Diocletian]

I've never heard of any evidence

You never knew that the Turks granted the Orthodox the right to collect taxes from the Roman Catholics in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and that the Orthodox were allowed to build churches while the Catholics weren't allowed?

[Bokababe]

"And there are still 7,000 dead Bosnians, many with their hands died behind their backs."

Where? Where are "7,000 dead Bosnians with their hands tied behind their backs"? Even the most ardent Srebrenica followers can't say that those at Srebrenica were all "killed with their hands tied behind their back", but her you are making up a convenient lie for emotional effect.

You can't form a coherent thought beyond repeating the words "Srebrenica" and "irrelevant" (when you choose not to answer) for interminable paragraphs. You are a waste of time & energy. I've got better things to do.

[Bokababe]

"You never knew that the Turks granted the Orthodox the right to collect taxes from the Roman Catholics in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and that the Orthodox were allowed to build churches while the Catholics weren't allowed?"

No, Dio. Believe it or not most Serbs have never taken a course on "Croat victimology".

I hesitate to print this from Wiki, because the rest of the article is complete pro-Islamic revisionist nonsense, but it does address your point re Catholics in Bosnia:

"Due to the constant border wars with the Catholic countries (Croatia, Austria, Hungary) as opposed to already occupied Orthodox countries (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece), the Catholics were looked upon much less favorably than the Orthodox."

[Diocletian]

The reason behind the favouritism shown the Orthodox against the Roman Catholics is that the Serbian Church was wholly within the Ottoman Empire administratively...meaning that the Patriachate and such were under their political control. The Pope, of course, was in Rome.

The lack of funds combined with the refusal for Church repairs, much less allowance for building new churches, led to many Catholics switching to Orthodoxy since they had no church nor priest to administer to them. Some, of course, went to Islam.

The main areas of conversion from Catholicism to Serbian Orthodoxy were in the Bihac area, Northern and Northeastern Bosnia, and in parts of Hercegovina, especially behind Dubrovnik around Trebinje. This also happened in your Boka Kotorska which is why some Montenegrin nationalists have an affinity for Croatians.