Subject: [big campaign] Bosniak Fact Check
From: Adam Blickstein <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:37:14 -0400
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Bosniak<http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/10/bosniacs.html>
Posted by Max Bergmann

Umm... Bosniaks is the name for Bosnian Muslims. The good people at the Swamp<http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10/palin_v_biden_debate_of_the_se.html> got this wrong when they wrote:

Joe Biden has just created a new class of people, the "Bosniacs.''

There are three major ethnic groups in Bosnia, Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks. It is the It is in the Dayton Accords -- for those at the Swamp -- that is the agreement that ended the Bosnian war. Here it is in the preamble:<http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/icty/dayton/daytonannex4.html>

Bosniacs, Croats, and Serbs, as constituent peoples (along with Others), and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby determine...

Here it is in the CIA Factbook<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bk.html#People>:

Bosniak 48%, Serb 37.1%, Croat 14.3%, other 0.6% (2000)
note: Bosniak has replaced Muslim as an ethnic term in part to avoid confusion with the religious term Muslim - an adherent of Islam

October 02, 2008 at 07:34 PM | Permalink<http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/10/bosniacs.html> | Comments (0)<http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/10/bosniacs.html#comments> | TrackBack (0)<http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/10/bosniacs.html#trackback>

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