The reaction of Serbs in Vranje inn
I'd like to explain the harsh reaction pictured in Serbian inn, when presented with Bosniak version of the song. In Serbia, this is a love song which glorifies the beauty of a girl, and the lyrics goes like this (sorry for the poor translation):
You have beautiful long hair, girl,
Are you sorry, because of it?
-- If I were sorry, I wouldn't let
-- Your hands to play with it.
You have black eyes, girl,
Are you sorry because of them?
-- If I were sorry, I would not
-- Let you look me into them.
You have the lips sweet as honey, girl,
Are you sorry because of them?
-- If I were sorry, I wouldn't
-- Give them to you to kiss them.
It is a lovely and naive song, whereas we hear in the movie that in certain languages, Jihad and radical-Muslim lyrics are applied to the same melody. The Bosniak song (mistakenly translated as 'Bosnian' which is incorrect, since the term 'Bosnian' applies to Serbs in Bosnia as well, while that version is a Muslim-Bosniak one) has the lyrics:
When we hear from minaret
The voice of muezzin,
-- The heart whispers 'Allahu ekber!'
-- The salvation lies within him.
The town of Vranje, where that was recorded, belongs to a Christian part of Serbia which was under severe Turkish occupation for almost 5 centuries, during which Muslims maintained a severe treatment over Christians, whom they reduced to lower-ranked citizens and literally the rank of sub-humans, whose Christian religious beliefs they severely mocked and whose churches they pillaged, destroyed and even turned into mosques. I do not wish to insult Islam or Muslims, but in that part of Serbia, Muslims were a severe and brutal force who are even today remembered as tyrants and merciless savages, and Islam as a severe force that oppressed Christianity. Hence the reaction.
IMO, beautiful international love songs shouldn't be adapted in Modern times to glorify only one ethnic group or only one religion in a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional environment such as Balkans. It is as if someone took the Beatles' songs and rearranged them to sing about Jihad, racial bigotry or radical religious views.