![]() The reason behind the protests were pictures allegedly shot in 1993 during the Bosnian War in which she appears wearing the uniform of the Army of Republika Srpska in the besieged town of Brčko, where she grew-up. In 2009, numerous Bosniaks and Croats protested when her concerts in Sarajevo, on May 30, and in Zagreb, on June 13, were announced. In that sense, being a Yugoslav icon, Lepa Brena has never publicly spoken about her religious beliefs, neither was seen or gave any indications of practicing any religion all that is known is that she was raised as a Sunni Muslim. In socialist Yugoslavia religions in general were an unpopular topic, and people acknolledged the religion to which belonged in relation to its family roots, but were overwelmingly non-practicioners. ![]() ![]() Several tabloids claimed that she had converted from Islam to Serbian Orthodoxy and that she had changed her name from Fahreta to Jelena. Some Bosniaks viewed her as a traitor as she was a Bosniak who sang and spoke with an Ekavian accent (which is predominantly spoken in Serbia) and she married a Serbian, Slobodan Živojinović. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, ethnic tensions which started rising in Yugoslavia and eventually led to country´s breakup, made Lepa Brena become one of main tabloid targets at the time.
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