[venomsnake]

And you forget the whole Ottoman rule thing. We brunt the conquerors wrath up to Vienna and barely stopped them. Had our development extinguished for 3-5 centuries. When people in Eastern Europe see the hordes of young, fighting age passing trough they have different associations - like Devşirme

[moonchrome]

I wanted to say something about that but it's not that black and white.

For example there were/are a lot of Muslims in the Balkans after the Ottoman empire - but they are integrated within the society - some of them drink/eat pork, none of them expect gays/adulterers to be stoned etc. Just like modern Christians reject the extreme parts of their religion (eg. they mostly ignore the stuff in old testament).

I don't think "islamophobia", in the sense that you'll be ostracized for being a muslim, is more common than the rest of EU.

[venomsnake]

Yeah but those are our Muslims. And Balkans are pretty agnostic no matter the religious denomination. It is different.

[moonchrome]

>And Balkans are pretty agnostic no matter the religious denomination. It is different.

One of the few good things from Communism I guess - although the methods used were disgusting