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user-inactivated  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I'm going to Kosovo??

    because ISIS is getting its tentacles into secular Kosovo

I'm interested in this. It is my understanding that much of the Balkan Peninsula is Islamic and has been historically (not quite half and half with Orthodox, but shouting distance). Indeed a quick demographic check shows that Kosovo is almost entirely Muslim, though wikipedia does not give a reason for the weird religious demographic twists (some countries in the Balkans are 90+ Muslim and some aren't even close) -- it is the Balkans, though, so the most complicated explanation is probably the correct one.

Anyway, to what extent is Kosovo secular? Is the population merely nominally Muslim? I'm assuming extremism is on the rise there, since it is in many other majority Muslim states, but I'd be interested in hearing exactly how -- is the secular thing not so true after all?