“I know how to say Allah, and that's it. I'm a citizen of Sarajevo and a Bosnian and full stop.”

— Jusuf Prazina

On being "Muslim" (official term for Bosniaks in the former Yugoslavia) http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/serbian_digest/120/t120-5.htm
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“I know how to say Allah, and that's it. I'm a citizen of Sarajevo and a Bosnian and full stop.”

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