Multi-ethnic group of archeologists working on Kosovo site

Great story that anyone can enjoy - regardless of politics. 2 thumbs up.

Obviously no one that blogs here is part of the group, we have a lot to learn from them.

Bravo!


I must ask...“There are 40 students here of various nationalities, Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Muslims..."

How can it be - "Muslims", a nationality?

> I must ask...“There are 40 students
> here of various nationalities,
> Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Muslims..."
> How can it be - "Muslims", a
> nationality?

Why must you ask? What anyone chooses to call his or her ethnic identity is an entirely personal matter.

It's not for anyone else to say whether someone should say he or she is a Muslim by nationality, or a Bosniak, or a Goran, or a Torbeš, or a Turk... or a Roma, Egyptian or Aškali... or a Serb or a Montenegrin. It's an entirely personal choice -- there are no DNA tests to distinguish one from the other.

We need more of this good work,working together never a bad idea.
I sure they didn't find any holy Serbian land out there,well I takeit back,who knows what Serbs can come up with this story,never know.

Jovan R.,

Muslim is not a nationality.

A person becomes a Muslim not by race, nationality or culture.

When you profess a belief in Islam, you are a Muslim.

It is incorrect to say that Muslim is a nationality.

It was not a matter of "race" (if there is such a thing), or any other supposedly immutable characteristic, but a conscious religious/cultural and political choice on Emir/Nemanja's part.
(Jovan R., 2 August 2009 14:50)

Emir simply went back to what his ancestors were, (Serbs)before they were converted to Islam.

If he found that his ancestors were Croatian he would've had himself christened as a Catholic and declared he was Croatian. Either way he has a race just like all the Bosnian Muslims do but choose not to acknowledge it.

Not so long ago, Muslims of Bosnia could not say they were anything else but either Croat of Serb Muslims. Bosniaks have become only a recent invention.

The process described by Roger7 is exactly how Nemanja Kusturica (formerly famous as Emir Kusturica) became a Serb. He chose to be baptised as a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church and declared himself to be a Serb.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/nnyxiHcQIOg/0.jpg

It was not a matter of "race" (if there is such a thing), or any other supposedly immutable characteristic, but a conscious religious/cultural and political choice on Emir/Nemanja's part.

Bravo!


I must ask...“There are 40 students here of various nationalities, Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Muslims..."

How can it be - "Muslims", a nationality?

It was not a matter of "race" (if there is such a thing), or any other supposedly immutable characteristic, but a conscious religious/cultural and political choice on Emir/Nemanja's part.
(Jovan R., 2 August 2009 14:50)

Emir simply went back to what his ancestors were, (Serbs)before they were converted to Islam.

If he found that his ancestors were Croatian he would've had himself christened as a Catholic and declared he was Croatian. Either way he has a race just like all the Bosnian Muslims do but choose not to acknowledge it.

Not so long ago, Muslims of Bosnia could not say they were anything else but either Croat of Serb Muslims. Bosniaks have become only a recent invention.

We need more of this good work,working together never a bad idea.
I sure they didn't find any holy Serbian land out there,well I takeit back,who knows what Serbs can come up with this story,never know.

> I must ask...“There are 40 students
> here of various nationalities,
> Albanians, Serbs, Roma, Muslims..."
> How can it be - "Muslims", a
> nationality?

Why must you ask? What anyone chooses to call his or her ethnic identity is an entirely personal matter.

It's not for anyone else to say whether someone should say he or she is a Muslim by nationality, or a Bosniak, or a Goran, or a Torbeš, or a Turk... or a Roma, Egyptian or Aškali... or a Serb or a Montenegrin. It's an entirely personal choice -- there are no DNA tests to distinguish one from the other.

Obviously no one that blogs here is part of the group, we have a lot to learn from them.

Great story that anyone can enjoy - regardless of politics. 2 thumbs up.

Jovan R.,

Muslim is not a nationality.

A person becomes a Muslim not by race, nationality or culture.

When you profess a belief in Islam, you are a Muslim.

It is incorrect to say that Muslim is a nationality.

The process described by Roger7 is exactly how Nemanja Kusturica (formerly famous as Emir Kusturica) became a Serb. He chose to be baptised as a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church and declared himself to be a Serb.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/nnyxiHcQIOg/0.jpg

It was not a matter of "race" (if there is such a thing), or any other supposedly immutable characteristic, but a conscious religious/cultural and political choice on Emir/Nemanja's part.