Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ...
by vukmir on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:47PM
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A minor correction: Bosnia is not a country with a majority Muslim population. At least 55% of people there are not Muslim.
Christians make up 52% of the population (Serbian Orthodox 36%, Catholic 15%, Protestant 1%). There are also a few percents of atheist, Jews, and others.
Edit: Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina#Ethnic_...
Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ...
by cygx on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:36PM
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My mistake. Bosniaks (who are predominantly Muslim) do only form the largest ethnic group, ie the 'relative majority'. I've actually visited the country and have 'extended' family (or whatever the proper English term for family you're only 'related' to by marriage is) that hails from there.
Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ...
by Arnt on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:13AM
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You're down from "40%" to single examples. Time to stop worrying ;)
Not necessarily, no. Support for murdering apostates can be low in countries with a majority Muslim population (Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are all in the low single-digit percentage range, it's at 8% in Turkey), and the figures for minority Muslim communities in western countries might be comparably low.
Also note that supporting an action does not automatically translate to enacting such an action, but such a mindset is still problematic.
And as the cases of Bangladeshi atheists that have been hacked to death show, such things do happen. Generally, apostates probably know to keep their head down in places where it is an issue. The fact that you say you live in a place with a considerable number of apostates shows that it's likely not one where you are.