Islamic Revival Tests Bosnia's Secular Cast

by Dan Bilefsky
New York Times
December 28, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1358/islamic-revival-tests-bosnias-secular-cast

Excerpt:

Thirteen years after a war in which 100,000 people were killed, a majority of them Muslims, Bosnia is undergoing an Islamic revival.

More than half a dozen new madrasas, or religious high schools, have been built in recent years, while dozens of mosques have sprouted, including the King Fahd, a sprawling $28 million complex with a sports and cultural center.

Before the war, fully covered women and men with long beards were almost unheard of. Today, they are common.

Many here welcome the Muslim revival as a healthy assertion of identity in a multiethnic country where Muslims make up close to half the population.

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