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here we go again

Mehmed declared himself to be a Serb, a writer of the Serbian language, and a member of Serbian literature specifically because he knew that people like you would try to play him off as a member of the invented ethnicities (Bosniak, Muslim by nationality, Montenegrin, Bosnian) that Tito was pushing for to further break apart and split up the Serbs. Mehmed wrote in Serbian, and he explicitly stated so! Here is a letter he wrote to the SERBIAN academy of Sciences and Arts that he recorded in his book "Sećanja": "Potičem iz muslimanske porodice iz Bosne, a po nacionalnoj pripadnosti sam Srbin. Pripadam srpskoj literaturi" -> TRANSLATION: I COME FROM A MUSLIM FAMILY FROM BOSNIA, BUT BY ETHNICITY I AM A SERB. I BELONG TO SERBIAN LITERATURE

Selimovic was a Serb writer who was born into a Muslim family in Bosnia, and, like most Muslim intellectuals and writers living in Bosnia at the time (other examples beside Mehmed: Hasan Kikic, Skender Kulenovic, Camil Sijadic, etc.), realized that all "Muslims by nationality" are Serbs who were forced to convert to Islam by Turkish occupiers who stole their sons through a process known as Devshirme and impaled resistors to Islam. To write him off as another other than a Serbian writer of Serbian literature in the Serbian language of Serb blood would be incredibly ignorant, and done (most likely) by people with an Anti-Serb agenda.

Selimovic's Serb Ethnicity was a key point mentioned in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

I don't give a shit about your notice, posting a notice does not allow you to rewrite history. And his ethnicity and language he writes in is very important because he is a writer.

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