Mosque opened in northern Vojvodina

How nice! The brand new mosque in Voijvodina.

I also just read about the Serb village in Bosnia erecting a statue of Jamaican musician Bob Marley-not far from another village where a statue of Bruce Lee stands.

In Kosovo, streets named after the clintons.

What Serbia needs is deep psycho analysis. The French once had a very appropriatte term for this-they called it cultural imperialism.

So whats next? Perhaps a statue of Borat in Belgrade or maybe the most appropriatte two statues for the Balkans would be of Harry Dunn and Loyd Christmas (from the movie dumb and dumber). You can put the statue of Loyd in Belgrade and the one of Harry in Zagreb-then you can connect the two statues with a yellow brick road.

The 2002 Serbian census recorded more than 8,000 Muslim religious believers in Vojvodina -- among them are Muslim Slavs from Sandzak and Bosnia, Roma, Albanians, and Goranci. Just like everyone in the Republic of Serbia these believers have the legal and constitutional right to build their own houses of worship and offer prayers in them.

Serbia is not an exclusively Orthodox Christian country -- in the city of Subotica, there are at present 8 Roman Catholic parish churches (the majority of the population is Catholic), 2 Protestant Christian churches, 2 Serbian Orthodox churches, one synagogue ... and now also a mosque. The addition of a mosque for the municipality's Islamic religious believers is normal -- there's nothing strange or exotic about it. It is the sign of a civilized society that is willing to respect the rights and freedoms of all citizens, without favoring or discriminating against members of any religion.

Just a quick note, in these notes written by American journalists there is often confusion related to geography (and sometimes history): Sofia is not a Romanian city, it is actually the capital city of our Bulgarian friends.

On a separate note, the long-awaited highway from Bucharest to Budapest is still under construction, with prices going up every few months, it turns our to be the most expensive motorway in the world (per km) - really, it now started to look just like a convenient way for the Americans (via Bechtel) to extract endless money from Romania.

Now, to get a few facts straight for the next time: 1 - Budapest and Bucharest are not the same city, 2 - Sofia is not in Romania, 3 - there are mosques in Bucharest and other Romanian cities (and that's no problem to us) and 4 - Kosovo is in Serbia...

How nice! The brand new mosque in Voijvodina.

I also just read about the Serb village in Bosnia erecting a statue of Jamaican musician Bob Marley-not far from another village where a statue of Bruce Lee stands.

In Kosovo, streets named after the clintons.

What Serbia needs is deep psycho analysis. The French once had a very appropriatte term for this-they called it cultural imperialism.

So whats next? Perhaps a statue of Borat in Belgrade or maybe the most appropriatte two statues for the Balkans would be of Harry Dunn and Loyd Christmas (from the movie dumb and dumber). You can put the statue of Loyd in Belgrade and the one of Harry in Zagreb-then you can connect the two statues with a yellow brick road.

Just a quick note, in these notes written by American journalists there is often confusion related to geography (and sometimes history): Sofia is not a Romanian city, it is actually the capital city of our Bulgarian friends.

On a separate note, the long-awaited highway from Bucharest to Budapest is still under construction, with prices going up every few months, it turns our to be the most expensive motorway in the world (per km) - really, it now started to look just like a convenient way for the Americans (via Bechtel) to extract endless money from Romania.

Now, to get a few facts straight for the next time: 1 - Budapest and Bucharest are not the same city, 2 - Sofia is not in Romania, 3 - there are mosques in Bucharest and other Romanian cities (and that's no problem to us) and 4 - Kosovo is in Serbia...

The 2002 Serbian census recorded more than 8,000 Muslim religious believers in Vojvodina -- among them are Muslim Slavs from Sandzak and Bosnia, Roma, Albanians, and Goranci. Just like everyone in the Republic of Serbia these believers have the legal and constitutional right to build their own houses of worship and offer prayers in them.

Serbia is not an exclusively Orthodox Christian country -- in the city of Subotica, there are at present 8 Roman Catholic parish churches (the majority of the population is Catholic), 2 Protestant Christian churches, 2 Serbian Orthodox churches, one synagogue ... and now also a mosque. The addition of a mosque for the municipality's Islamic religious believers is normal -- there's nothing strange or exotic about it. It is the sign of a civilized society that is willing to respect the rights and freedoms of all citizens, without favoring or discriminating against members of any religion.