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1. hahama+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-12-09 21:02:09
Bosnia is a terrible example. It is not doing fine precisely because Muslims in Bosnia are 51% of the population and demand a centralized government so that they can overrule Christians any way they please.

When Turks left about 100 years ago Muslims were a minority but thanks to much higher birth rate they now want to set the rules in Bosnia. Serbs know that, that's why they resisted, and still resist, a unified Bosnia.

Ottoman Empire tolerated Christians, true, but to achieve anything in life you had to convert to Islam. Otherwise you could just remain a haraç-paying Christian peasant without any chance of education or growth. Haraç was a tax for being a non-Muslim.

It was super hard to be a thriving Christian under Turks. In fact the Turkish policy was to demographically and economically slowly bleed Christians and for those with ambition to convert to Islam.

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2. runarb+W3[view] [source] 2023-12-09 21:33:23
>>hahama+(OP)
I said relatively fine because under Serbia, Bosnian muslims were genocided. Yes there is ethnic tension now, but nothing anywhere close to what it was three decades ago.
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3. hahama+NB[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-12-10 02:17:21
>>runarb+W3
"Under Serbia", oh my. I'm sorry you have to comment on things you know nothing about. They're not ethnic but religious tensions.
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4. dynode+QwG[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-12-23 23:59:36
>>hahama+NB
The word genocide was coined for what the Ottomans did to Christians.
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