I am surprised such stresses would spark a revival.
When the ancestors of the present-day Bosnian Muslims were pressured by the Turks, they simply apostatized from Christianity. One would think their descendants might do the same with regard to Islam.
Perhaps Clinton's merciless bombing raids helped this "revival" a bit.
Actually, the Bosnians saw the Turks as liberators, since the majority of Bosnians were Bogomils and were living under the threat of extermination by the Pope and the Hungarian monarch.
Also, after the defeat of the Serbian armies by the Turks, many of the Serbian and other Slavic nobles, converted to Islam and this fact had a strong influence upon those of the lower classes of Bosnian-Serbian society.
The Muslims also had another advantage: the Muslim missionaries sent to the Balkans were often former Christians from Byzantium and were much better educated and more culturally refined than the Christian clergy of the Balkans.
There has been a strong revival of Islamic culture in the Balkans, with many Slavic Muslims now studying in Turkey and other Islamic countries. Of course, the Turks are assisting the Bosnians in many ways, including the training of a new officer corps for the Bosnian army.
The Serbian bombing of Sarajevo and the loss of 250,000 souls during the Bosnian-Serb war had more to do with the Islamic revival in the Balkans than Clinton's war against the hapless Serbs.
And poor Serbia's problems never cease to end....especially among the thuggish 'leadership,' excuse the expression.
