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To: Neophyte
In any situation, it is a confession, and the fact that in some ethnic or national groups it prevails, does not change anything.

Partition of India -- Muslims are told they are "Pakistanis" Hindus are told they are "Indians".

China -- Ethnic and cultural Han are considered "Hui" if they are Muslim.

South America -- Christian Levantines are "Syrios", Muslim Levantines are "Turcos".

East Africa -- Converting to Islam and turns a Kiswahili-speaking coastal "Mshenzi" into a "Mswahili".

And no, Tito did not invent the Bosniak/Serb/Croat distinction, although he may have given it more importance his Yugoslavia. Incidently, I think both he and Comintern officials in the USSR would have been very surpirsed to hear that he was a "Comintern stouge" -- Yugoslavia and the USSR were icily hostile to each other for most of the Cold War.

153 posted on 09/04/2006 7:32:46 PM PDT by zimdog
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To: zimdog
Partition of India -- Muslims are told they are "Pakistanis" Hindus are told they are "Indians".

China -- Ethnic and cultural Han are considered "Hui" if they are Muslim.

South America -- Christian Levantines are "Syrios", Muslim Levantines are "Turcos".

East Africa -- Converting to Islam and turns a Kiswahili-speaking coastal "Mshenzi" into a "Mswahili".

Local vernacular, nothing more. Calling Muslim Levantines in the certain region "Turcos" doesn't make them Turks, nor makes Islam anything different from a religion.

Yugoslavia and the USSR were icily hostile to each other for most of the Cold War.

That's true. And Hiler's Germany and Stalin's Russia were in a war which took millions of casualties from the both sides... yet their ideology, besides small cosmetic differences, was the same. Ditto Tito (the pun is intended).

158 posted on 09/04/2006 7:45:06 PM PDT by Neophyte (Nazis, Communists, Islamists... what the heck is the difference?)
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