[John Will]

The Ottomans really messed the Balkans up by forcibly converting the Albanians and Bosinaks as well as some other Slavs, at least the greeks gave the south Slavs Christianity.

[Bokababe]

"The Ottomans really messed the Balkans up by forcibly converting the Albanians and Bosinaks as well as some other Slavs, at least the greeks gave the south Slavs Christianity.

True. But the ethnic groups in that region, from Bosnia south, were all subjected to pretty much the same "pressure to convert to Islam" as the others. The remaining Orthodox Christians are the ones whose families just never gave in to that pressure.

Famed Bosnian Filmmaker, Emir Kosturica, admitted that his family "was one of those Serb families who gave in to converting to Islam just to survive during the Ottoman days". Kosturica left Sarajevo during the Bosnian war and moved to Paris and then to Serbia, and he converted (back) to Orthodox Christianity just a few years ago.

[NYC Republican]

The Ottomans really messed the Balkans up by forcibly converting the Albanians and Bosinaks as well as some other Slavs, at least the greeks gave the south Slavs Christianity.

There's a statement I think we can ALL agree on.