Bosnians Quote by Emir Kusturica

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

— Adnan

“Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the…

— Peter Maass

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there…

— Alija Izetbegovic

My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were…

— Emir Kusturica

How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

No one questioned "who is a Serb, who is a Croat, who is a Muslim (Bosniak)" we were all one people, that's how it…

— Josip Broz Tito

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as…

— Alija Izetbegovic

I have always lived abroad, but inside my family, we always speak in Bosnian and preserve all the Bosnian traditions. So it's always inside…

— Miralem Pjanic

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost…

— Orhan Pamuk

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side…

— Joe Sacco

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

— Pashko Vasa

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali