I COME FROM A MUSLIM FAMILY FROM BOSNIA BUT BY ETHNICITY I AM A SERB I BELONG TO SERBIAN LITERATURE Mehmed Mesa Selimovic This is a response to VolunteerMarek s here we go again post 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 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 Se anja Poti em 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 anything 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 Volunteer Marek I don t give a shit about your notice posting a notice does not allow you to rewrite history Also his ethnicity and language he writes in is very important because he is a writer and his works deal with ethnic questions in the Balkans