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Islam in Slovenia
Date: March 19, 2003 | 15 Muharram 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Author: Al-Muhajabah
I came across a brief but interesting article, Islam: A New Religion in a Traditionally Catholic Slovenia (1). My mom's family are originally from Slovenia (2); her grandparents came to America around 1900.

As the article on Islam mentions, Slovenia was kind of an odd country out in the old Yugoslavia: Catholic instead of Eastern Orthodox and speaking Slovenian rather than Serbo-Croatian. Slovenia broke away pretty quickly when Yugoslavia started breaking apart and seems to have done a good job of keeping itself largely out of the troubles that the rest of Yugoslavia descended into.

The Muslims in Slovenia are almost all Bosnian or Kosovar immigrants and refugees; that is, they've come from outside Slovenia.

Here's also a website (3) in Slovenian, which I can't read.
Footnotes
1) http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/OCVIRK.html
2) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/si.html
3) http://www.islamslo.net
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