f stop: I remember reading that some Serbs did take on the Muslim religion way back, in order to survive. true? unfortunately, its true. During occupation, Turks were cruel savages and some of our people in fear took Islam.
When Islamization penetrated on Serbian lands, it went thru Kosovo, Metohija, Rashka (known in medieval Poland as Ras- that`s why name of Racowie for Serbs in Poland), Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But, what i can confirm a lot of Serbs returned to Christianianty after Turks were expeled (200 years ago) and even today, in every new day we have rapports how our people returning to Christian way. For example, internationaly famous filmmaker Emir Kusturica returned from Islam and converted to Christian Orthodox way, as he said: `because that was religion of his ancestors before they were forced to take Islam due to Turkish occupation`. In his family even lived memory on his `SLAVA day` while they were Christians (SLAVA- Saint protector celebration- old Slavic pre Christian custom preserved Christianized among Orthodox Balkan Serbs). So, he even continued to celebrate his SLAVA day (St. George's Day).
  Nemanja (formerly Emir) Kusturica - internationaly famous filmmaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emir_Kusturica
On Đurđevdan (St. George's Day) in 2005 Emir was baptised into the Serbian Orthodox Church as Nemanja Kusturica in Savina monastery near Herceg Novi, Montenegro. To his critics who considered this the final betrayal of his Bosnian Muslim roots, he replied that: "My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were Orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks."
At the 2007 parliamentary elections he gave indirect support to Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and his center-right Democratic Party of Serbia. In 2007, he also supported Serbian campaign Solidarity - Kosovo is Serbia, a campaign against the unilateral separation of Serbian province of Kosovo.
He is currently living in Drvengrad, Serbia, the village he had built for his film Life Is a Miracle. So, while people in western Europe more and more seek truth in Islam, islamized Serbs escaping from that evil and returning to Christianity and their old Slavic family custom- SLAVA.
God is good to Serbs! Long live Slavija, our Mother, our only option!
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