peace has cost them their strength

Lmao imagine being non-turkish and being nostalgic about the ottoman empire

imagine being a secularist instead

clearly one is more of a power move

Maybe maybe

Yeah lol, the bosnians are like that as well with ottomans

Bosniaks are truly strange lmao

Before islamisation they were Christians and had quite deep ties with serbs

Ethnically speaking they both are also quite close

True

The language is allmost the same as serbian

Maybe without Islam, those two would be together lmao. Here we have lazi people, a Georgian sub-ethnic group,which live in modern turkey. They got assimilated by Turks botnculture and religious wise, but before that they were Christians

Now they are ethnically confused lmao

But are quite conservative and Nationalistic

More faithful to Islam than alot of turks even

Pretty much,the religon still not divide the people,like syrians in Syria they see either as brother's and the same people

Syria is better example, yeah. Assad himself was quite tolerant of christian

*christians

Yeah

Syrian Christians seem to love him even. Since he fights ISIS

But middle East still isn't a great example of the tolerance between religions lmao

That's true and the the so free Syrian army attacks Christian villages

Yep yep

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/470398746786791447/605913310893965336/image0.jpg

Perhaps

Lmao what the fuck

what

Everything lmao

The secular government in Syria and Albania good because theres no favoritism and the nation comes first

that doesn't work in the long run

Well, Syria wasn't secular in a sense of it didn't support any religion. Quite the opposite, Assad pushed the Islamic values but never to the point of radicalisation

True

And that's great imo. When your country is mostly Muslim, and your people's culture is also based and built upon this religion

The state and the church should always be seperate, both minding their own business, but the government should always push the values of country's religion

This way you have a functional society

And one which can assimilate the immigrants even

If Europe was really deep in faith then the migration and assimilation crisis wouldn't had happen lmao