About Bosnia
Well, Just a short introduction maybe about Bosnian Muslims. Bosnian people are Slavic people, like Pols, Serbs, Croatian, Slovenes, and others. First time that Bosnia is mentioned as a state was in Tenth century A.D. and it was mentioned as a state and most of its inhabitatns were Bogumils. These were people who worshiped one God but were not christians. Because they lived in a majority of Christian region they were being forced to turn to christianity but they never did. When Otomans came to this region in 1500's all of Bogumils became Muslim. It is recorder that in one day in city of Yayce, 30000 people converted to Islam. During Ottoman Empire Muslims in Bosnia lived decently. They had power, they were educated, they owned land, and were majority of population. In 1875 Bosnia was annexed by Austro Hungary. In about 6 years after they came to Bosnia many things changed. They changed the writing from arabic script to latin script, and therefore 75% of muslims became illiterate. They changed laws from Turkish and bosnian language into German, therefore all techers, profesors, all professionals came from other parts of Austro hungary, and they were not Muslims. A lot of people run away from this non muslim country, they went to Turkey and Middle East. It is estimated that there is more than 4 million Bosnian Muslims living in Turkey today. After Austro hungary Bosnia became part of Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, as you can see no Muslims, no Bosnians. During the First and Second world wars, thousands and thousands of Muslims were killed by Serbs and Croats in Bosnia. It is estimated that at least 15% of Population was killed. After WW2 Bosnia became a part of Yugoslavia. It was Communist country so religion was forbidden and those who did practice were not allowed to do anything, and if they tried to do something they were either imprisoned or killed.
In 1992 Serbia and Montenegro, and Sebs from Bosnia started a genocide over Muslims Polulation in Bosnia. They killed 250000 muslim people. I think they wanted to just kill us all. But alhadulillah, with Allah's help, they did not. We fought back and we almost won. I will talk about the war some other time. Now alhamdulillah there are muslims in Bosnia, about 2 million Muslims living there. We are still trying to rebuild after the war. Trying to rebuild economy, infrastructure, houses, mosques (they destroyed 80% of Bosnian Mosques).
That's it for now. I will try to write an article or to find some articles about Bosnia in English.
Assalamu alaykum
Sister UmmuNur
