Was Islam spread by the sword?
No.
For example:
Spread of
Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina: [4]
Increased religious identification[edit]
Religious leaders from the three major faiths claim that observance is increasing among younger persons as an expression of increased identification with their ethnic heritage, in large part due to the national religious revival that occurred as a result of the Bosnian war.
[8]Many Muslim women have adopted Islamic dress styles that had not been common, especially in cities, before the war. Leaders from the three main religious communities observed that they enjoy greater support from their believers in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina rather than urban centres such as the capital
Sarajevo or
Banja Luka.
[8] In Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are eight Muftis located in major municipalities across the country:
Sarajevo,
Bihać,
Travnik,
Tuzla,
Goražde,
Zenica,
Mostar, and
Banja Luka. The acting head of the
Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina is
Husein Kavazović.
[9]
In a 1998 public opinion poll, 78.3% of Bosniaks in the
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared themselves to be religious.
[10]
Secularism[edit]
For a few number of
Bosniaks that identify themselves as Bosnian Muslims, religion often serves as a community linkage, and religious practice is confined to occasional visits to the mosque or significant rites of passage such as birth, marriage, and death. Headscarves for women, or the
hijab is worn only by a minority of Bosniak women, and otherwise mostly for religious obligations. Bosnians who participate in or are children of ethnically mixed marriages between the Bosniak, Serb and Croat populations in Bosnia and Herzegovina are often
irreligious.
Status of religious freedom[edit]
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The State Constitution provides freedom of religion,
[11] and individuals generally enjoy this right in ethnically mixed areas or in areas where they were adherents of the majority religion.
Religious education in
Bosnia and Herzegovina is largely decentralized, as is the education system generally. The canton and entity governments and the
Brčko District authorities have responsibility for education; there is no national education ministry or policy. Public schools offer religious education classes, but with the exception of Brcko, schools generally offer religious instruction only in the area's majority religion. In theory, students have the option not to attend, but in practice, students of the majority religion face pressure from teachers and peers to attend the classes.[
citation needed] For example, the RS requires Serbs to attend religion classes but does not require attendance for Bosniaks and Croats. If more than 20 Bosniaks or Croats attend a particular school in the RS, the school is required to organize religion classes on their behalf. However, in the rural RS, there is usually no qualified religious representative available to teach religious studies to the handful of Bosniak or Croat students. It is similar in the Federation, where students of the ethnic majority are required to attend religious classes,[
citation needed]either Bosniak or Croat, while the minority is not required to attend. In the Federation's five cantons with Bosniak majorities, schools offer Islamic religious instruction as a 2-hour-per-week elective course.
Acts of anti-Semitism against the small Bosnian Jewish community in the country are practically non-existent. However, Jewish leaders state that there is a growing tendency in the country to mix anti-Israeli sentiment with rare acts of
anti-Semitism. Following the
2003 Istanbul Bombings, the Jewish community was quickly granted police security at its synagogues and no incidents were reported.
The government's census bureau today does not collect data on religious affiliation and the percentages given are the estimates in the U.N. Development Program's Human Development Report 2002 as quoted by the Bosnia and Herzegovina report.
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
One could see that in spite of the persecution Muslims are stead-fast in their religion and killings have made them more staunch Muslim than before:
"Many Muslim women have adopted Islamic dress styles that had not been common, especially in cities, before the war"
Regards
You are trying to move the goalpost again.
