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What happened is Yugoslavia was a nation that was created post-World War 1

out of the remnants of the mighty Austria-Hungarian Empire

They created a nation called Yugoslavia no longer exists right now

This was a creation from 1914 up until 1992

Yugoslavia had a majority of Muslims in it in the heart of Europe

How did Muslims end up in the heart of Europe?

500 years ago the Ottoman Empire was in this region and people organically converted they appreciated Islam

And so that region became majority Muslim, but over time the Ottomans had to you know leave that area

Communism came things happened there many of these our fellow brothers and sisters

They kind of sort of were not able to practice their faith. They knew they were Muslim

But Islamic identity was very weak frankly, and I know I speak for myself even growing up in the 80s

We had no idea that an entire region of Europe was Muslim

It was completely disconnected from our conscious our psyche nobody knew that entire regions of Europe was slim in

1991 or 92 they had a referendum the majority Muslims voted for freedom

But the Serbian Orthodox community

Did not appreciate this make a long story short

They had the army the majority the population were Muslim the army rebelled and started what is basically a civil war

So this is in a nutshell what happened from 1992 to 1995 three years in this time frame over

100,000 people were killed majority Muslim at least half that amount were of women were violated

Allah musta'an again majority Muslim tens of thousands of people were displaced and from this civil war and genocide

Entire countries were created the modern country of Bosnia heard Zagovina the modern country

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