Calling someone a Muslim because of his, her origin would not be right. Mayors of Rotterdam, now London and Calgary in Canada are first Europeans, Canadians/whatever that means. They define them selves first by their cultural values and environment they have adopted and they live in, and second or third maybe/in case they practice religion/as a Muslims or whatever. Bosnians/Bosniacs are European stock people that choose to define themselves first by Europeans, by virtue of having to live in the same environment, eating the same food, having the same school system and so on. Some of them define themselves as Muslim if they are religious. I liked the article a lot but I don't feel that we need to try and prove that someone of different ethnicity who grows up in Calgary needs to be identified as anything else but Calgarian/ Canadian and judged by any other criteria but his/her abilities.
Calling someone a Muslim because of his, her origin would not be right. Mayors of Rotterdam, now London and Calgary in Canada are first Europeans, Canadians/whatever that means. They define them selves first by their cultural values and environment they have adopted and they live in, and second or third maybe/in case they practice religion/as a Muslims or whatever. Bosnians/Bosniacs are European stock people that choose to define themselves first by Europeans, by virtue of having to live in the same environment, eating the same food, having the same school system and so on. Some of them define themselves as Muslim if they are religious. I liked the article a lot but I don't feel that we need to try and prove that someone of different ethnicity who grows up in Calgary needs to be identified as anything else but Calgarian/ Canadian and judged by any other criteria but his/her abilities.